Wotan Wilke Möhring

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Wotan Wilke Möhring
Möhring 2020
Born	(1967-05-23) 23 May 1967 (age 54) Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1998–present

Wotan Wilke Möhring (born 23 May 1967) is a German actor.

Life and work[]

Möhring grew up in Herne. His father was an army officer and his mother worked as a teacher. He has a sister and two brothers. One of them, Sönke Möhring, is also an actor.

After receiving a Waldorf education in Herne and finishing high school with the Abitur diploma, Möhring took vocational training to become an electrician, but then worked as a club owner, doorman, and model. He studied communication at the Berlin University of the Arts, joined actors workshops in Cologne and Los Angeles, and lived for two years in New York City. He was also an army officer for two years.

Together with Gabi Delgado-López, Möhring founded the band DAF/DOS. Furthermore, he has produced soundtracks.

Möhring had his first screen appearance in the 1998 television film Die Bubi-Scholz-Story, a bio-pic about a German boxer, which also featured Benno Fürmann and Götz George. Since then he has played in over 90 German film and television productions^[1] and has received numerous prizes, including the German Television Prize as Best Actor in 2012.^[2] He starred in the German film which was awarded a Grimme Prize in 2013. He played the lead role in a short film directed by Max Zähle, which won a Student Academy Award in 2011^[3] and was nominated for an Oscar in 2012. He had a small role in the international film production of 2008 titled Valkyrie about the plot to assassinate Hitler on 20 July 1944.

Since 2013, Möhring has played the federal police officer Thorsten Falke in eleven episodes^[4] of the long-running crime television series Tatort, after previously playing guest roles four times in the series.

In 2016 he played the part of Old Shatterhand, the blood brother of Winnetou, in the German film production Winnetou -- der Mythos lebt based on three novels by Karl May.

Möhring plays the main character, Ludvig Licht, in the 2018 Swedish television thriller series , based on the novel by Thomas Engstrom.^[5][6]

Filmography (selection)[]

Awards and nominations[]

• Hat er Arbeit? (2000)
  • 2002: German Television Award nomination for Best Actor
• Liebe und Verrat (2002)
  • 2002: German Television Award nomination for Best Actor
• Antikörper (2005)
  • 2005: Málaga Spanish Film Festival Award for Best actor
• The Fire (2011)
  • 2011: Thessaloniki Film Festival Award for Best actor
• Homevideo (2011)
  • 2011: German Television Award
• The Last Fine Day (2011)
  • 2012: German Television Award for Best actor
  • 2013: Grimme Award
• Winnetou (2016)
  • 2017 Goldene Kamera award as best German actor^[7]

References[]

External links[]

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