Uwe Kockisch

Uwe Kockisch (born 31 January 1944,^{[citation needed]} in Cottbus, Germany) is a German stage, screen and television actor.

Career

Kockisch completed his training to become an actor at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. He accepted engagements in Cottbus and Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz). He appeared in plays at the Maxim Gorki Theater for over 20 years^[1] and later, for two years, at the Schaubühne in Berlin.

Kockisch began working in the film industry in 1974. In 1981, he played the lead role in Dein unbekannter Bruder (Your Unknown Brother), available at Netflix, an East German film by Ulrich Weiss. Kockisch appeared in such crime series as Tatort and Polizeiruf 110, and played an inspector in the TV series Zappek. Since 2003 he has incarnated Commissario Guido Brunetti^[2] in a number of television films based on the crime novels by Donna Leon. In 2010 he held one of the lead roles in the six-part miniseries The Weissensee Saga: A Berlin Love Story, as the Stasi officer Hans Kupfer.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

As a youth, Kockisch attempted to escape from East Germany, but was caught and had to spend a year in prison.

Kockisch is married and lives in Madrid.^{[citation needed]}

Awards

2008: Uwe Kockisch received the Adolf Grimme Award for Best Lead Actor in the "Fiction" category, for his role in the movie City for Ransom by Dominik Graf.^{[citation needed]}
2011: Deutscher Fernsehpreis representing the actors for the six-part miniseries The Weissensee Saga: A Berlin Love Story.^{[citation needed]}

Selected filmography

1973: Erziehung vor Verdun. Der große Krieg der weißen Männer (Education before Verdun)
1975: Für die Liebe noch zu mager
1975: Die schwarze Mühle (TV)
1978: Unser Drache Kasimir (TV)
1978: Marx und Engels – Stationen ihres Lebens (TV series)
1979: Lachtauben weinen nicht
1981: Unser kurzes Leben (Our Short Life)
1981: Bürgschaft für ein Jahr ^[3]
1982: Dein unbekannter Bruder (Your Unknown Brother)
1982: Sabine Kleist, 7 Jahre… (Sabine Kleist, Aged Seven...)
1984: Die Zeit der Einsamkeit
1985: Erscheinen Pflicht
1986: Rabenvater
1988: Treffen in Travers
1990: Grönland
1992: The Mystery of the Amber Room [de] ^[4]
1992: Miraculi
1994: Ärzte [de]: Die Narbe des Himmels (TV)
1995: Operation Medusa (TV)
1995–1996: Zappek (TV series)
1996: Polizeiruf 110 - Kurzer Traum (TV episode)
1997: Berlin – Moskau (TV)
1997: Rosamunde Pilcher - Stunde der Entscheidung (TV episode)
1998: The Big Mambo
1998: Abgehauen (TV)
1998: Unsere Kinder! - Verschollen im Urlaub (TV)
1999: Gestern ist nie vorbei (TV)
1999-2000: Der Clown (TV series)
2000: Rosa Roth - Tod eines Bullen (TV episode)
2001: Polizeiruf 110 - Bei Klingelzeichen Mord (TV episode)
2001: Opferlamm - Zwischen Liebe und Haß (TV)
2001: Female 2 Seeks Happy End (TV)
2001: The Tunnel
2001: Tatort - Kalte Wut (TV episode)
2002: Rotlicht - Die Stunde des Jägers (TV)
2004: Kleinruppin forever
2004: Carola Stern's Double Life (TV)
2006: Endloser Horizont (TV)
2005: Erinnere dich, wenn du kannst! (TV)
2005: The News [de] (TV)
2006: City for Ransom (TV)
2006: The Eagle – Codename: Minos (TV episode)
2006: The Eagle – Codename: Ithaka (TV episode)
2007: Unter Verdacht – Das Geld anderer Leute (TV episode)
2007: Duel at Night [de] (TV)
2008: Wenn wir uns begegnen (TV)
2008: Eine Nacht im Grandhotel (A Night at the Grand Hotel) (TV) ^[5]
2008: Schattenwelt (Long Shadows)
2009: Ein Dorf schweigt (TV)
2009: Nachtschicht [de] – Blutige Stadt [de] (TV episode)
2009: Hoffnung für Kummerow (TV)
2009: Lutter - Mordshunger (TV episode)
2010: The Frontier [de] (TV)
2010: The Weissensee Saga: A Berlin Love Story (TV mini-series)
2010: Morgen musst Du sterben (TV)
2011: The Gold Quest: A Journey to Panama (TV)
2011: Spreewaldkrimi – Die Tränen der Fische, Regie (TV)
2011: Jorinde und Joringel (TV)
2012: Visitors
2013: Ruby Red

Donna Leon Series

As Commissario Guido Brunetti,^[6] Kockisch has appeared in the following television films based on the crime novels by Donna Leon:

2003: ep 5 - Venezianisches Finale (Death at La Fenice) - Director: Sigi Rothemund
2003: ep 6 - Feine Freunde (Friends in High Places) - Director: Sigi Rothemund ^[7]
2004: ep 7 - Sanft entschlafen (The Death of Faith – aka Quietly in Their Sleep) - Director: Sigi Rothemund
2004: ep 8 - Acqua alta (Acqua alta – aka Death in High Water) - Director: Sigi Rothemund
2005: ep 9 - Beweise, dass es böse ist (Doctored Evidence) - Director: Sigi Rothemund
2005: ep 10 - Verschwiegene Kanäle (Uniform Justice) - Director: Sigi Rothemund
2006: ep 11 - Endstation Venedig (Death in a Strange Country) - Director: Sigi Rothemund
2006: ep 12 - Das Gesetz der Lagune (A Sea of Troubles) - Director: Sigi Rothemund
2008: ep 13 - Die dunkle Stunde der Serenissima (Wilful Behavior) - Director: Sigi Rothemund
2008: ep 14 - Blutige Steine (Blood from a Stone) - Director: Sigi Rothemund
2009: ep 15 - Wie durch ein dunkles Glas (Through a Glass, Darkly) - Director: Sigi Rothemund
2010: ep 16 - Lasset die Kinder zu mir kommen (Suffer the Little Children) - Director: Sigi Rothemund
2011: ep 17 - Das Mädchen seiner Träume (The Girl of His Dreams) - Director: Sigi Rothemund
2012: ep 18 - Schöner Schein (About Face) - Director: Sigi Rothemund
2013: ep 19 - Auf Treu und Glauben (A Question of Belief) - Director: Sigi Rothemund

References

^ Müller], Redaktion: Julia Niehaus, Manfred Möckel, und Harald (2002). Maxim Gorki Theater. [Berlin]: Theater der Zeit. pp. 14, 68, 90. ISBN 3-934344-19-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ "Uwe Kockisch als Commissario Brunetti". ARD. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
^ Silberman, Marc (1995). German cinema: texts in context. Wayne State University Press. p. 245. ISBN 0-8143-2560-2.
^ Hans Günther Pflaum, Hans Helmut Prinzler (1993). Cinema in the Federal Republic of Germany. Inter Nationes. p. 449.
^ Röhe, Matthias (2009). Drehort Hamburg. Norderstedt: Books on Demand. pp. 72, 73. ISBN 978-3-8370-8252-4.
^ Augstein, Rudolf (2006). Der Spiegel. Spiegel-Verlag. p. 82.
^ Zanotto, Piero (2002). Veneto in film : il censimento del cinema ambientato nel territorio : 1895-2002 (1. ed.). Venezia: Marsilio. pp. 112, 113. ISBN 88-317-8146-4.

External links

[1] Müller], Redaktion: Julia Niehaus, Manfred Möckel, und Harald (2002). Maxim Gorki Theater. [Berlin]: Theater der Zeit. pp. 14, 68, 90. ISBN 3-934344-19-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[2] "Uwe Kockisch als Commissario Brunetti". ARD. Retrieved 29 December 2011.

[3] Silberman, Marc (1995). German cinema: texts in context. Wayne State University Press. p. 245. ISBN 0-8143-2560-2.

[4] Hans Günther Pflaum, Hans Helmut Prinzler (1993). Cinema in the Federal Republic of Germany. Inter Nationes. p. 449.

[5] Röhe, Matthias (2009). Drehort Hamburg. Norderstedt: Books on Demand. pp. 72, 73. ISBN 978-3-8370-8252-4.

[6] Augstein, Rudolf (2006). Der Spiegel. Spiegel-Verlag. p. 82.

[7] Zanotto, Piero (2002). Veneto in film : il censimento del cinema ambientato nel territorio : 1895-2002 (1. ed.). Venezia: Marsilio. pp. 112, 113. ISBN 88-317-8146-4.

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