Life and work

He grew up in Herne

Herne, Germany

Herne is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area directly between the cities of Bochum and Gelsenkirchen.- History :Like most other cities in the region Herne was a tiny village until the 19th century...

. 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

Sönke Möhring

-Life and work:He grew up in Herne. His father was an Army officer and his mother worked as a teacher. Möhring has a sister and two brothers. After his brother Wotan Wilke Möhring became an actor, in the early 2000s Sönke followed him to also become an actor...

 is also an actor.

The former learnt electrician also worked as club owner, doorman and model and studied Communication at the Berlin University of the Arts

Berlin University of the Arts

The Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK is a public art school in Berlin, Germany, one of the four universities in the city...

, joined actors workshops in Cologne

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

 and Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

 and lived for two years in New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

. Also he was an Army officer for two years.

Together with Gabi Delgado-Lopez, Wotan Wilke Möhring founded the band DAF/DOS

DAF/DOS

DAF/DOS was an electronic music project formed by Gabriel "Gabi" Delgado-López in 1995 as a continuation of his work as D.A.F. .-History:...

. Furthermore he produced soundtrack

Soundtrack

A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

s.

Wotan Wilke Möhring had his first screen appearance in the 1998 TV-movie Die Bubi-Scholz-Story, which also featured Benno Fürmann

Benno Fürmann

Benjamin "Benno" Fürmann is a German film and television actor.-Life and work:Fürmann was born in Berlin-Kreuzberg. By the age of 15 he had lost both his parents. At 17, he had a serious accident while train surfing, and had to spend six weeks in the hospital as a result...

 and Götz George

Götz George

Götz George is a German actor, son of actor couple Berta Drews and Heinrich George. His arguably best-known role is that of Duisburg commissar Horst Schimanski in the TV crime series Tatort.-Early years:...

.

Filmography (selection)

• 1998: Die Bubi-Scholz-Story (TV-movie)
• 1999: Zoe
• 1999: St. Pauli Nacht
• 1999: Bang Boom Bang - Ein todsicheres Ding
• 2000: Otto - Der Katastrofenfilm
• 2000: Hat er Arbeit? (TV-movie)
• 2001: Das Experiment
  Das Experiment
  Das Experiment is a 2001 German film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, about a social experiment, based on Mario Giordano's novel Black Box, which resembles Philip Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment of 1971.-Plot:...
  
  
• 2001: Lammbock
  Lammbock
  Lammbock is a 2001 German stoner film. The movie is based around two pizza delivery guys who decide to up their income by adding marijuana to the menu and get into trouble after attracting the attention of an undercover cop. There are numerous subplots, and the movie is essentially split up into...
  
  
• 2002: Himmelreich auf Erden (TV-movie)
• 2002: La mer
• 2002: Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt (TV-movie)
• 2002: Olgas Sommer
• 2003: Anatomy 2
  Anatomy 2
  Anatomy 2 is a 2003 German thriller film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky that stars Franka Potente. It's the sequel to the 2000 film Anatomy...
  
  
• 2003: Eierdiebe
• 2003: Echte Männer? (TV-movie)
• 2004: Die Konferenz (TV-movie)
• 2004: Zwischen Liebe und Tod (TV-movie)
• 2004: Cowgirl
• 2005: Küss mich, Hexe! (TV-movie)
• 2005: Antikörper
• 2005: Almost Heaven
• 2005: Der Schatz der weissen Falken
• 2005: Heimliche Liebe - Der Schüler und die Postbotin (TV-movie)
• 2006: Goldene Zeiten
  Goldene Zeiten
  Goldene Zeiten is a German film released in 2006. It is the last film in director Peter Torwarth's trilogy of films set in his hometown Unna, and was preceded by Bang Boom Bang and Was nicht passt wird passend gemacht...
  
  
• 2006: Mord auf Rezept (TV-movie)
• 2006: Freundinnen fürs Leben (TV-movie)
• 2006: Nichts als Gespenster
• 2006: Bettis Bescherung (TV-movie)
• 2007: Video Kings
• 2007: Gegenüber
• 2007: Copacabana (TV-movie)
• 2007: Neben der Spur
• 2008: Hardcover
• 2008: Tatort
  Tatort
  Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss , crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF 2 in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland...
  
  (one episode TV-series)
• 2008: KDD - Kriminaldauerdienst (TV-series)
• 2008: Ein riskantes Spiel (TV-movie)
• 2008: Valkyrie
  Valkyrie (film)
  Valkyrie is a 2008 American historical thriller film set in Nazi Germany during World War II. The film depicts the 20 July plot in 1944 by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and to use the Operation Valkyrie national emergency plan to take control of the country...
  
  
• 2009: Henri IV
• 2009: Kinder des Sturms (TV-movie)
• 2009: Pandorum
  Pandorum
  Pandorum is a 2009 German-British science fiction thriller film written by Travis Milloy, directed by Christian Alvart and produced by Paul W.S. Anderson. The film stars Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster. Filming began in Berlin in August 2008. Pandorum was released on September 25, 2009 in the United...
  
  
• 2009: Men in the City
  Men in the City
  Men in the City is a 2009 German comedy film directed by Simon Verhoeven with Christian Ulmen, Nadja Uhl and Wotan Wilke Möhring. The film was followed by Männerherzen... und die ganz ganz große Liebe in 2011.-Plot:...
  
  
• 2009: Soul Kitchen
  Soul Kitchen (film)
  Soul Kitchen is a 2009 German comedy film directed by Fatih Akın, with a screenplay by Akin and Adam Bousdoukos. Bousdoukos based the story on his own experiences as the owner of a Greek tavern named "Taverna", where Akin was a regular customer. Akin filmed the movie entirely in the Hamburg...
  
  

Awards and nominations

• Hat er Arbeit? (2000)
  • 2002: Deutscher Fernsehpreis nomination for Best Actor

• Liebe und Verrat (2002)
  • 2002: Deutscher Fernsehpreis nomination for Best Actor

• Antikörper (2005)
  • 2005: Málaga Spanish Film Festival Award for Best actor

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