Martin Wuttke

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Biography

Martin Wuttke is a German actor and director who reached international recognition for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds. Wuttke began his actor training at the college theater in Bochum and then changed to the Westphalian Drama School in Bochum (Bochum today drama school).

He played in 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 of West Berlin, the Thalia Theater of Hamburg, Stuttgart State Theater, Freie Volksbühne Berlin, Schauspielhaus Frankfurt am Main, Schauspielhaus Zürich (CH) and at the Burgtheater in Vienna (AT), where he has been a director and a member of the ensemble since 2009. Wuttke lives with actress Margarita Broich with two children.

Known For

Inglourious Basterds

Hitler

Cloud Atlas

Mr. Boerhaave / Guard / Leary the Healer

Hanna

Knepfler

Homeland

BND Officer Adler

Colonia

Niels Biedermann

Sense8

Volker Bohm

A Most Wanted Man

The Admiral

A Hidden Life

Major Kiel

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2026	Silent Friend MOVIE	Self
2025	Other People's Money TV	Daniel Köhler
2024	Die Zweiflers TV	Siggi
2023	Geschlechterkampf – Das Ende des Patriarchats MOVIE	Self
2023	Sleeping Dog TV	Self
2023	Bonn TV	Reinhard Gehlen
2022	Elfriede Jelinek: Language Unleashed MOVIE	(voice)
2022	Broll + Baroni – Für immer tot MOVIE	Leopold Wagner
2021	Confessions of Felix Krull MOVIE	Clock Maker
2021	Ich und die Anderen TV	Vater
2021	Stay Still MOVIE	Dr. Herrmann
2021	Heute stirbt hier Kainer MOVIE	Ulrich Kainer
2021	Highfalutin MOVIE	Self
2020	Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence MOVIE	Self
2020	Die Toten am Meer MOVIE	Wernicke
2019	Ottilie von Faber-Castell - Eine mutige Frau MOVIE	Lothar von Faber
2019	A Hidden Life MOVIE	Major Kiel
2019	Verliebt in Valerie MOVIE	Henk
2019	Happiness Sucks MOVIE	Stefan Gabriel
2018	54 Hours: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis TV	Leiter Kripo Bremen
2018	Partisan MOVIE	Self
2017	Babylon Berlin TV	Gustav Heymann
2017	Ich werde nicht schweigen MOVIE	Windhorst
2017	Chance 2000 - Abschied von Deutschland MOVIE	Self
2017	Maximilian and Marie De Bourgogne TV	Ulrich Fugger
2016	The Duelist MOVIE	German Baron
2016	Colonia MOVIE	Niels Biedermann
2015	Wer weiß denn sowas? TV	Self
2015	Sense8 TV	Volker Bohm
2014	A Most Wanted Man MOVIE	The Admiral
2014	Fever MOVIE	Vater
2013	George MOVIE	Joseph Goebbels
2012	Cloud Atlas MOVIE	Mr. Boerhaave / Guard / Leary the Healer
2011	Homeland TV	BND Officer Adler
2011	Hanna MOVIE	Knepfler
2009	Inglourious Basterds MOVIE	Hitler
2008	Silent Resident MOVIE	Hauks
2008	Delta MOVIE	Self
2006	Die Tote vom Deich MOVIE	Manuel Bove
2006	Call Me Agostino MOVIE	Self
2006	Der Idiot MOVIE	Myschkin
2006	Detektive oder Die glücklosen Engel der inneren Sicherheit MOVIE	Self
2003	Rosenstrasse MOVIE	Joseph Goebbels
2003	Hamlet_X MOVIE	Claudius
2002	Liebesau - Die andere Heimat TV	Schorsch Schönstein
2001	Hand in Hand MOVIE	Peter Plachotny
2000	Demons MOVIE	Nikolai Wsewolodowitsch Stawrogin
2000	The Legend of Rita MOVIE	Erwin Hull
2000	No Place to Go MOVIE	Imbissverkäufer
2000	Failure as a Chance MOVIE	Self
1998	Lebensläufe TV	Self
1997	The 120 Days of Bottrop MOVIE	Christoph Schlingensief
1997	Die Bernauerin MOVIE	Mönch
1993	Bella Block TV	Wolfgang Krauss
1991	The Party: Nature Morte MOVIE	Self
1991	Buster's Bedroom MOVIE	Joe
1974	3 nach 9 TV	Self
1970	Scene of the Crime TV	Andreas Keppler
1970	Scene of the Crime TV	Dr. Wimmer
1970	Scene of the Crime TV	Georg
1970	Scene of the Crime TV	Bruno Kandis
1970	Scene of the Crime TV	Adrian Goser
	Crux MOVIE	Self

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