Mueller stahl biography
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The endless energy of Armin Mueller-Stahl
Armin Mueller-Stahl was born on December 17, , in Tilsit, then part of East Prussia, a former German territory that today is part of Russia. After his father died during WWII, his mother, a doctor, brought up her five children on her own.
Mueller-Stahl first studied musicology and violin performance, but dropped musical pursuits after receiving his degree, as the life of a concert violinist wasn't to his liking. He enrolled in a drama school in East Berlin but was reportedly dismissed due to "lack of talent."
Mueller-Stahl nonetheless continued to pursue acting, landing smalls roles here and there. In he received his first permanent engagement as an ensemble member at Berlin's Theater am Schiffbauerdamm. He soon after moved to the Volksbühne, one of East Berlin's most prestigious theaters.
Mueller-Stahl's stardom quickly grew. He appeared onstage and in cinema and East German TV films, becoming one of the country's best-loved and be
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Armin Mueller-Stahl
Armin Mueller-Stahl was born in Tilsit (East Prussia) in He lives and works in Germany and the United States. His paintings, drawings and lithographs emerge from a dreamy inner space that seeks the truth and a creative desire to throw off the shackles of life.
In most works, he opts to företräda as authentically as possible, a figure imparting a mood or state of existence. In Mueller-Stahl immigrated to West Germany, where he established himself as a top-flight actor, soon making his way to Hollywood to play with international screen stars such as George Clooney, Michael Douglas, John Malkovich and Tom Hanks.
He won an Oscar for his role in the spelfilm Jakob der Luegner and was nominated in for parts in Bittere Emte and Oberst Redi and in for Shine. He studied music at the Stern’sche Konservatoriumin Berlin. He has been the recipient of dozens of honors throughout his career for acting, writing and painting in both Europe and the United States where he has exhi
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Armin Mueller-Stahl
Armin Mueller-Stahl is one of the artistic multiple talents of German cultural history such as Hermann Hesse, Ernst Barlach, Günter Grass and Oskar Kokoschka. The trained concert violinist is perhaps the most important living German actor. But nowadays, Armin Mueller-Stahl is also known to the expert public as a painter, graphic artist, sculptor and writer. Versatility is his philosophy of life: "For me, painting, writing, making music and acting all belong together."
At the age of seventy, he made his first and most spectacular appearances as a painter at the Babelsberg Film Museum, with of his works. "All my life I have observed and transferred postures, I play and draw them" – and that for half a century! That is why the exhibitions in Potsdam and Schwerin revealed astonishing depictions of people and many biographical snapshots from the film and theatre industry.
Today the artist is over 90 years old and his artistic work (drawings, oil, acrylic or waterco