Martin Wuttke

Martin Wuttke is a German actor and director. He has performed on many stages in the German-speaking theatre world, as well as in numerous films and TV series. He achieved international recognition for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds., which won him the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, shared with the ensemble cast.

Martin Wuttke
Wuttke in 2011
Born	(1962-02-08) February 8, 1962 (age 63) Gelsenkirchen, West Germany
Occupations	Actor, director
Years active	1991–present

Early life and education

Martin Wuttke began his actor training at the college theatre in Bochum, before switching to the Westfälische Schauspielschule Bochum (later renamed Schauspielschule Bochum).^{[citation needed]}

Career

Wuttke has performed on numerous German-speaking stages: Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin, Berliner Ensemble, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Schiller Theater in Berlin, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Theater des Westens Berlin, the Thalia Theater of Hamburg, Stuttgart State Theater, Freie Volksbühne Berlin, Schauspiel Frankfurt am Main, and Schauspielhaus Zürich in Switzerland.^{[citation needed]}

When the Berliner Ensemble performed at the United States in 1999,^[1] Wuttke portrayed Hitler as a petty Chicago gangster in Heiner Müller's adaptation of Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, in a performance praised by critics.^[2][3]

In 2009 Wuttke was appointed director of the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria, where he also became a member of the ensemble.^{[citation needed]}

He has also starred in many films, achieving international recognition for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds,^{[citation needed]} and German TV series, notably Babylon Berlin from 2020 to 2022.^{[citation needed]}

In 2023 he played Reinhard Gehlen in Bonn – Alte Freunde, neue Feinde, a political drama set in post-war West Germany in 1954.^[4][5]

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2000	No Place to Go	Fast food seller
2002	Delusion	Robert Bergmann
2003	Rosenstrasse	Joseph Goebbels
	Hamlet X	Claudius
2006	Call Me Agostino	Agostino Stone
	Detektive oder Die glücklosen Engel der inneren Sicherheit
2007	Silent Resident	Hauks
2008	Delta
2009	Inglourious Basterds	Adolf Hitler
2011	Hanna	Knepfler
2012	Cloud Atlas	Mr. Boerhaave/Guard/Leary the Healer
2014	A Most Wanted Man
	Fever
2015	Colonia Dignidad
2016	The Duelist	German Baron
2019	A Hidden Life
2020	Berlin Alexanderplatz

Television

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1991	Moskau – Petuschki	Jerofejev Venedikt
1997	Die Bernauerin	Mönch
1998–2015	Tatort	Andreas Keppler	21 episodes
1998	Geiselfahrt ins Paradies
2000	Dämonen	Nikolai Wsewolodowitsch Stawrogin
	Bella Block	Wolfgang Krauss	1 episode
2001	Hand in Hand	Peter Plachotny
2002	Liebesau – die andere Heimat	Schorsch Schönstein	3 episodes
2006	Die Tote vom Deich	Manuel Bove
2013	George (de)	Joseph Goebbels
2015	Homeland	BND officer Adler
2016–2017	Sense8	Volker Bohm
2017	Maximilian	Ulrich Fugger the Elder	TV miniseries
2020—2022	Babylon Berlin	Gustav Heymann	14 episodes
2023	Bonn – Alte Freunde, neue Feinde	Reinhard Gehlen	TV miniseries

Awards

• Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture -Inglourious Basterds – Won