Jürgen Vogel

Jürgen Vogel
Jürgen Vogel
	Jürgen Vogel in February 2010
Born	Jürgen Peter Vogel; 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: [ˈjʏʁɡn̩ ˈpeːtɐ ˈfoːɡl̩]; born 29 April 1968, in Hamburg) is a German actor, screenwriter, film producer and singer.[1] One of the most successful character actors in German cinema, he first broke out in 1992 with his role in Little Sharks.[2]

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.[2] In 1985 he moved to Berlin, where he shared a flat with German actor Richy Müller. He states that he was inspired by the movie Taxi Driver, starring Robert De Niro. He became famous with the movie Little Sharks (German: Kleine Haie) in 1992. He won 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 and is married to Madeleine Sommerfeld.

Awards

1989: Bayerischer Filmpreis – best young actor in Rosamunde[3]
1992: Bayerischer Filmpreis – best actor in Kleine Haie (Little Sharks)[3]
1994: Telestar for Dann eben mit Gewalt (Violence: The Last Resort)[3]
1997: Deutscher Filmpreis – best male lead in Das Leben ist eine Baustelle (Life is All You Get)[3]
1998: Deutscher Shooting Star[3]
2000: Jupiter – best TV Star[3]
2001: Adolf-Grimme-Preis for Das Phantom (The Phantom)[3]
2003: Goldene Kamera – best German actor in Nackt und Scherbentanz (Shattered Glass)[3]
2006: 42nd Chicago International Film Festival – Silver Hugo Award – best actor in Der freie Wille (The Free Will)[3]
2006: Tribeca Film Festival, New York – best male lead in Der freie Wille (The Free Will)[3]
2006: Silberner (silver) Bär in the category of special artistic performance in Der freie Wille (The Free Will)[3]
2007: Bayerischer Filmpreis – best male lead in Emmas Glück (Emma's Bliss)[3]
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)[3]
2010: Herbert-Strate-Preis[3]

Selected filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1989	Bumerang-Bumerang	Pit Malek	Hans W. Geißendörfer
1990	Rosamunde	Emil	Egon Günther
1992	Little Sharks	Ingo Hermann	Sönke Wortmann
1993	Violence: The Last Resort	Martin	Rainer Kaufmann	TV film
1994	Wachtmeister Zumbühl	Albin	Urs Odermatt
1995	Silent Night	Frank	Dani Levy
1996	Sexy Sadie	Edgar	Matthias Glasner
1997	Smilla's Sense of Snow	Nils Jakkelsen	Bille August
1997	Life is All You Get	Jan Nebel	Wolfgang Becker
1997	The Pharmacist	Levin Graber	Rainer Kaufmann
1998	Der Pirat	Jan	Bernd Schadewald	TV film
2000	Das Phantom	Leo Kramer	Dennis Gansel	TV film
2000	Manila	Rudi	Romuald Karmakar
2000	Angry Kisses	Father Bachman	Judith Kennel
2001	Emil and the Detectives	Max Grundeis	Franziska Buch
2001	Sass	Erich Sass	Carlo Rola
2002	Naked	Boris	Doris Dörrie
2002	Nogo	Tom	Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl
2002	Shattered Glass	Jesko	Chris Kraus
2003	Mein Name ist Bach	Frederick the Great	Dominique de Rivaz
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	Matthias Glasner
2006	Emma's Bliss	Max	Sven Taddicken
2006	A Friend of Mine	Hans	Sebastian Schipper
2006	Where Is Fred?	Alex	Anno Saul
2007	Rabbit Without Ears	as himself	Til Schweiger
2007	Die Schatzinsel	Israel Hands	Hansjörg Thurn	TV film
2008	The Wave	Rainer Wenger	Dennis Gansel
2009	Gravity	Vince Holland	Maximilian Erlenwein
2009	12 Winter	Mike Roth[4]	Thomas Stiller
2011	Hotel Lux	Siggi Meyer	Leander Haußmann
2012	Mercy	Niels	Matthias Glasner
2013	Das Adlon. Eine Familiensaga	Siegfried von Tennen	Uli Edel	TV miniseries
2013	Wolfskinder	Onkel	Rick Ostermann
2013	Sources of Life	Erich Freytag	Oskar Roehler
2014	Stereo	Erik	Maximilian Erlenwein
2014	Tour de Force
2017	Iceman

Television series

Year	Title	Role
1990	Tatort: Rendezvous	Daniel
1991	Tatort: Blutwurstwalzer	Alex
1996	Polizeiruf 110: Kleine Dealer, große Träume	Atze Pöhlein
2002	Tatort: Flashback	Rudi Eltmann
2004	Tatort: Der vierte Mann	Harry Wolter
2005	Tatort: Wo ist Max Gravert?	Roman Mielcke
2009–2011	Schillerstraße	Himself
2016	Nachtschicht: Ladies First	Jacky Herbst
2018	The Team	Gregor Weiss

References

Faine, Jon (6 May 2008). "Jurgen Vogel and Lorna Crozier and Sam Hamill – ABC Melbourne". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
Jürgen Vogel in "German Who is Who"
"Jürgen Vogel at IMdB"
Thomann, Jörg (5 January 2009). "de:Wer will fleißige Bankräuber sehen?" [Who wants to see a hardworking bank robber?]. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 16 December 2014 – via English translation of original by Google Translate found here.

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[1] Faine, Jon (6 May 2008). "Jurgen Vogel and Lorna Crozier and Sam Hamill – ABC Melbourne". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 8 August 2012.

[vogel-2] Jürgen Vogel in "German Who is Who"

[awards-3] "Jürgen Vogel at IMdB"

[4] Thomann, Jörg (5 January 2009). "de:Wer will fleißige Bankräuber sehen?" [Who wants to see a hardworking bank robber?]. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 16 December 2014 – via English translation of original by Google Translate found here.