Jürgen Vogel

Jürgen Vogel
File:Jürgen Vogel Berlinale 2010 crop.jpg Jürgen Vogel in February 2010
Born	Jürgen Peter Vogel (1968-04-29) 29 April 1968 Hamburg, Germany
Occupation	Actor, screenwriter, film producer and singer
Years active	1992–present
Spouse(s)	Madeleine Sommerfeld
Children	Maria Vogel

Jürgen Peter Vogel (German pronunciation: [ˈjʏɐ̯ɡən ˈpeːtɐ ˈfoːɡəl]; born 29 April 1968 in Hamburg) is a German actor, screenwriter, film producer and singer. He is one of the most successful character actors of German cinema and had his break in 1992 with de.

Biography

Jürgen Vogel is the son of a Hamburg waiter and a housewife. He worked as a child model, later had various jobs and visited the Munich drama school for one day. In 1985 he moved to Berlin, where he shared a flat with German actor Richy Müller. He states himself that he got inspired by the movie Taxi Driver with Robert De Niro. He became famous with the movie de (German: Kleine Haie) in 1992. He got the Silver Bear award in 2006 for his work as an actor, co-author and co-producer for the film The Free Will (German: Der freie Wille). Vogel has a daughter, Maria (born 1988) from a previous relationship. He is married to Madeleine Sommerfeld.

Awards

• 1989: Bayerischer Filmpreis – best young actor in Rosamunde
• 1992: Bayerischer Filmpreis – best actor in Kleine Haie (Little Sharks)
• 1994: Telestar for Dann eben mit Gewalt (Violence: The Last Resort)
• 1997: Deutscher Filmpreis – best male lead in Das Leben ist eine Baustelle (Life is All You Get)
• 1998: Deutscher Shooting Star
• 2000: Jupiter – best TV Star
• 2001: Adolf-Grimme-Preis for Das Phantom (The Phantom)
• 2003: Goldene Kamera – best German actor in Nackt und Scherbentanz (Shattered Glass)
• 2006: 42nd Chicago International Film Festival – Silver Hugo Award – best actor in Der freie Wille (The Free Will)
• 2006: Tribeca Film Festival, New York – best male lead in Der freie Wille (The Free Will)
• 2006: Silberner (silver) Bär in the category of special artistic performance in Der freie Wille (The Free Will)
• 2007: Bayerischer Filmpreis – best male lead in Emmas Glück (Emma's Bliss)
• 2007: Ernst-Lubitsch-Preis for his roles in Ein Freund von mir (A Friend of Mine) and Wo ist Fred? (Where is Fred?)
• 2009: Jupiter - best actor in Die Welle (The Wave)
• 2010: Herbert-Strate-Preis

Selected Filmography

Movies

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1989	de	Pit Malek	Hans W. Geißendörfer
1990	de	Emil	Egon Günther
1992	de	Ingo Hermann	Sönke Wortmann
1993	Violence: The Last Resort	Martin	de	TV movie
1994	de	Albin	Urs Odermatt
1995	Silent Night	Frank	Dani Levy
1996	Sexy Sadie	Edgar	de
1997	Smilla's Sense of Snow	Nils Jakkelsen	Bille August
1997	Life is All You Get	Jan Nebel	Wolfgang Becker
1997	de	Levin Graber	de
1998	Der Pirat	Jan	de	TV movie
2000	Das Phantom	Leo Kramer	Dennis Gansel	TV movie
2000	Manila	Rudi	Romuald Karmakar
2000	Angry Kisses	Father Bachman	de
2001	Emil and the Detectives	Max Grundeis	Franziska Buch
2001	de	Erich Sass	de
2002	de	Boris	Doris Dörrie
2003	Mein Name ist Bach	Frederick the Great	fr
2003	Rosenstraße	Arthur von Eschenbach	Margarethe von Trotta
2003	Good Bye Lenin!	(cameo)	Wolfgang Becker
2005	Barfuss	janitor	Til Schweiger
2006	The Free Will	Theo Stoer	de
2006	Emma's Bliss	Max	de
2006	A Friend of Mine	Hans	de
2006	Where Is Fred?	Alex	de
2007	Rabbit Without Ears	as himself	Til Schweiger
2008	The Wave	Rainer Wenger	Dennis Gansel
2009	de	Vince Holland	de
2009	12 Winter	Mike Roth	de
2011	Hotel Lux	Siggi Meyer	Leander Haußmann
2012	Mercy	Niels	de
2013	Wolfskinder	Onkel	de
2013	de	Erich Freytag	Oskar Roehler
2014	Stereo	Erik	de

Television series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Tatort: Rendezvous	Daniel
1991	Tatort: Blutwurstwalzer	Alex
1996	Polizeiruf 110: de	Atze Pöhlein
2002	Tatort: Flashback	Rudi Eltmann
2004	Tatort: Der vierte Mann	Harry Wolter
2005	Tatort: de	Roman Mielcke
2009-2011	Schillerstraße	Himself

External links

• Jürgen Vogel at the Internet Movie Database
• Photographs and bibliography