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Uwe Kockisch
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Name
Uwe Kockisch
Role
Television actor
Children
Sascha Kockisch
Spouse
Christine Gautier (m. 2011), Franziska Petri (m. 1995–2005)
Movies
Ruby Red, The Tunnel, Eine Stadt wird erpresst, Your Unknown Brother, Donna Leon ‑ Venezian
Similar People
Franziska Petri, Julia Jager, Annett Renneberg, Sigi Rothemund, Felix Fuchssteiner
Donna leon s brunetti uwe kockisch interview clip
Uwe Kockisch (born 31 January 1944) in Cottbus, Germany) is a German stage, screen and television actor.
Kockisch completed his training to become an actor at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. He accepted engagements in Cottbus and Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz). He appeared in plays at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater for over 20 years and later, for two years, at the Schaubühne in Berlin.
Kockisch began working in the film industry in 1974. In 1981, he played the lead role in Dein Unbekannter Bruder (Your Unknown Brother), available at Netflix, an East German film by Ulrich Weiss. Kockisch appeared in such crime series as Tatort and Polizeiruf 110, and played an inspector in the TV series Zappek. Since 2003 he has incarnated Commissario Guido Brunetti in a number of television films based on the crime novels by Donna Leon. In 2010 he held one of the lead roles in the six-part miniseries The Weissensee Saga: A Berlin Love Story, as the Stasi officer Hans Kupfer.
Personal life
As a youth, Kockisch attempted to escape from East Germany, but was caught and had to spend a year in prison.
Kockisch is married and lives in Madrid.
Awards
2008: Uwe Kockisch received the Adolf Grimme Award for Best Lead Actor in the "Fiction" category, for his role in the movie Eine Stadt wird erpresst by Dominik Graf.
2011: Deutscher Fernsehpreis representing the actors for the six-part miniseries The Weissensee Saga: A Berlin Love Story.
Selected filmography
1973: Erziehung vor Verdun. Der große Krieg der weißen Männer (Education before Verdun)
1975: Für die Liebe noch zu mager
1975: Die schwarze Mühle (TV)
1978: Unser Drache Kasimir (TV)
1978: Marx und Engels – Stationen ihres Lebens (TV series)
1979: Lachtauben weinen nicht
1981: Unser kurzes Leben (Our Short Life)
1981: Bürgschaft für ein Jahr
1982: Dein unbekannter Bruder (Your Unknown Brother)
