Ulrich Mühe

[selenak]

I just found out that Ulrich Mühe, who was one of our best actors and delivered an incredible performance in my favourite movie of 2006, Das Leben der Anderen ("The Lives of Others"), died on Sunday, of cancer. (They only just released the news.) It's always odd, the death of an actor, or writer, or anyone whom one knows as an artist. On the one hand, it's a stranger, but on the other, this person managed to touch you and make you think and move you through their art, and this is such a wonderful thing that you feel their loss despite not having any claim on them.

The Lives of Others gave non-German audiences a chance to appreciate what he could do. If you haven't seen it yet, do so now, and be sad he's gone, and glad we have what we do of his work...