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...

Comments

[mimesh.livejournal.com]

There is nothing else to say. I just found out and wanted to make a similar post about it but you did it more eloquently than I ever could.

I'm just incredibly sad.

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's horrible. I didn't even know he was ill...

[selenak.livejournal.com]

He kept it secret until the day before his death, apparantly, as far as the public was concerned. But he was already ill during the Oscars in Los Angeles.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

True terrible. I thought his performance in that movie was one of the very best I saw this year. I was hoping to see much more of him.

Thanks for letting us know.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Truly terrible, I meant to say.

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is terribly sad news - he was such an amazing actor. This will make watching "Das Leben der Anderen" still more poignant.

[thalia-seawood.livejournal.com]

Yes, I felt very sad today when I read the news. I had read on Sunday (!) that he had cancer, but was hoping very much that he would recover from it. He was such a great actor.

[bimo.livejournal.com]

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.

Wonderfully said.

I still remember how strangely affected I felt, when I read about the death of Elisabeth Volkmann about a year ago, simply for the reasons that "Klimbim" happened to be one of my very first conscious TV memories and that I'm never quite able to resist the occasional episode of "The Simpsons".

Mühe will be greatly missed, I believe. A truly outstanding actor.

[kathyh]

How very sad. I thought he was amazingly good in Das Leben der Anderen, really making me feel for a character who started out seeming so unlikeable. A truly gifted actor.

[willowgreen.livejournal.com]

My husband and I finally saw that movie last night. I feel so fortunate to have seen him in it.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

It was such a wonderful performance. I'm glad you saw it.