Uwe Adam Ochsenknecht (; born 7 January 1956) is a German actor and singer.
Career
Films Ochsenknecht has starred in include ''
Das Boot'' (1981), ''
Schtonk!
''Schtonk!'' (subtitled ''Der Film zum Buch vom Führer''; "The film accompanying the ''Führer's'' book") is a 1992 German satirical film which retells the story of the 1983 ''Hitler Diaries'' hoax. It was written and directed by Helmut Dietl.
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'' (1992), and the TV miniseries ''
Frank Herbert's Dune'' (2000).
In the early 1990s, he gained a second foothold in music. He has since released several albums; he is a singer in the band The Screen, while Mick Rogers (Manfred Mann's Earth Band) and Thomas Blug are guitar players. The two ex-musicians of Gary Moore's band Pete Rees (bass) and Graham Walker (drums) are also represented.
Ochsenknecht stars in the television film series ''Der Bulle und das Landei'', playing a police commissioner who was transferred to the rural
Eifel
The Eifel (; lb, Äifel, ) is a low mountain range in western Germany and eastern Belgium. It occupies parts of southwestern North Rhine-Westphalia, northwestern Rhineland-Palatinate and the southern area of the German-speaking Community of ...
area, at irregular intervals since 2009.
Personal life
Ochsenknecht was married to
Natascha Ochsenknecht until 2012 and has three children with her: sons
Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht (b. 1990) and
Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht
Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht (born 27 December 1991) is a German actor and musician.
Early life
Ochsenknecht was born in Munich to actor Uwe Ochsenknecht and actress Natascha Ochsenknecht. He has an older brother, Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht and ...
(b. 1991), who are both actors, and daughter Cheyenne Savannah Ochsenknecht (b. 2000). His oldest son, Rocco Stark, is from an earlier girlfriend. Wilson and Jimi Ochsenknecht acted together with him in the films ''
Enlightenment Guaranteed
''Erleuchtung garantiert'' (''Enlightenment Guaranteed'') is a 1999 German film directed by Doris Dörrie about two brothers, Uwe (Uwe Ochsenknecht) and Gustav ( Gustav-Peter Wöhler), who travel to Japan in order to find themselves. The two plan ...
'' and ' and its four sequels.
In July 2017, Ochsenknecht married Kiki Viebrock.
Awards
*1999
Bavarian Film Awards
The Bavarian Film Awards (german: Bayerischer Filmpreis) have been awarded annually since 1979 by the state government of Bavaria in Germany for “exceptional achievement in German filmmaking.” Along with the German Film Awards, these are th ...
, Best Actor
Filmography
References
External links
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1956 births
Living people
German male film actors
German male television actors
German male singers
German Film Award winners
20th-century German male actors
21st-century German male actors