Jürgen Vogel

Vogel in 2012

German actor

Jürgen Vogel
Vogel in 2012
Born	Jürgen Peter Vogel (1968-04-29) 29 April 1968 (age 55) Hamburg, West Germany
Occupation(s)	Actor, producer
Years active	1992–present
Spouse	Natalia Belitski
Children	6

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

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. In 1985, he moved to Berlin, where he shared a flat with actor Richy Müller. He states that he was inspired by the movie Taxi Driver, starring Robert De Niro.

Vogel 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 had his first child, a daughter, Maria (born 1988), from a previous relationship. He married Madeleine Sommerfeld in 1997, adopted her two sons and the couple had a daughter (born 1999). After their divorce, he had another son (born 2009) with assistant director Michelle Gornick. Vogel had his 6th child, a daughter (born 2019) with his fiancée, actress Natalia Belitski.

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

Films

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1989	Boomerang Boomerang [de]	Pit Malek	Hans W. Geißendörfer
1990	Rosamunde [de]	Emil	Egon Günther
1992	Little Sharks	Ingo Hermann	Sönke Wortmann
	Blame It on the Bossa Nova [de]	Charly	Bernd Schadewald [de]	TV film
1993	Violence: The Last Resort	Martin	Rainer Kaufmann	TV film
	Durst [de]	Arthur	Martin Weinhart [de]	TV film
	Soccer Love [de]	Lalla	Bernd Schadewald [de]	TV film
	Polski Crash [pl]	Piet Nickel	Kaspar Heidelbach [de]	TV film
1994	Shameless	Freddie	Horst Johann Sczerba [de]	TV film
	Angst [de]	Andy Demski	Bernd Schadewald [de]	TV film
	Constable Zumbühl [de]	Albin	Urs Odermatt
	The Little Innocent [de]	Max	Rainer Kaufmann	TV film
1995	The Meds	Leo	Matthias Glasner
	Silent Night	Frank	Dani Levy
1996	Sexy Sadie	Edgar	Matthias Glasner
1997	Smilla’s Sense of Snow	Nils Jakkelsen	Bille August
	Life is All You Get	Jan Nebel	Wolfgang Becker
	Buddies	Henrik	Roland Suso Richter	TV film
	Child Murder [de]	Andreas Menzel	Bernd Böhlich	TV film
	The Pharmacist	Levin Graber	Rainer Kaufmann
1998	Der Pirat	Jan	Bernd Schadewald [de]	TV film
	The Big Mambo	Gregor	Michael Gwisdek
	Fat World	Hagen Trinker	Jan Schütte
1999	A Big Job [de]	Ulrich Raffcyk	Bernd Schadewald [de]	TV film
2000	Das Phantom	Leo Kramer	Dennis Gansel	TV film
	Manila [de]	Rudi	Romuald Karmakar
	Angry Kisses	Father Bachman	Judith Kennel [de]
2001	Emil and the Detectives	Max Grundeis	Franziska Buch
	Sass [de]	Erich Sass	Carlo Rola [de]
2002	Naked	Boris	Doris Dörrie
	Nogo	Tom	Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl
	Shattered Glass [de]	Jesko	Chris Kraus
2003	Mein Name ist Bach	Frederick the Great	Dominique de Rivaz [fr]
	Rosenstraße	Arthur von Eschenbach	Margarethe von Trotta
	Good Bye Lenin!	(cameo)	Wolfgang Becker
2005	No Songs of Love [de]	Markus Hansen	Lars Kraume
	Barefoot	janitor	Til Schweiger
2006	The Free Will	Theo Stoer	Matthias Glasner
	Emma’s Bliss	Max	Sven Taddicken [de]
	A Friend of Mine	Hans	Sebastian Schipper
	Where Is Fred?	Alex	Anno Saul
2007	Duel at Night [de]	Jonas Birke	Matti Geschonneck [de]	TV film
	Treasure Island [de]	Israel Hands	Hansjörg Thurn	TV film
	Rabbit Without Ears	as himself	Til Schweiger
2008	The Wave	Rainer Wenger	Dennis Gansel
2009	Gravity	Vince Holland	Maximilian Erlenwein [de]
	12 Winter	Mike Roth	Thomas Stiller [de]
	This Is Love	Holger	Matthias Glasner
2011	Hotel Lux	Siggi Meyer	Leander Haußmann
2012	Mercy	Niels	Matthias Glasner
	Death of a Cop [de]	Bruno Theweleit	Matti Geschonneck [de]	TV film
2013	Hotel Adlon: A Family Saga [de]	Siegfried von Tennen	Uli Edel	TV miniseries
	Sources of Life	Erich Freytag	Oskar Roehler
2014	High Tide Is Dead on Time [de]	Tom Larson	Thomas Berger [de]	TV film
	Stereo	Erik	Maximilian Erlenwein [de]
	Tour de Force
	Wrecked	Georg Kiehl	Sönke Wortmann
2016	Family! [de]	Lennart Behrwaldt	Dror Zahavi	TV film
2017	Iceman

Television series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Tatort: Rendezvous	Daniel
1991	Tatort: Blutwurstwalzer	Alex
1996	Polizeiruf 110: Kleine Dealer, große Träume [de]	Atze Pöhlein
2002	Tatort: Flashback	Rudi Eltmann
2004	Tatort: Der vierte Mann	Harry Wolter
2005	Tatort: Wo ist Max Gravert? [de]	Roman Mielcke
2009–2011	Schillerstraße	Himself	35 episodes
2016	Nachtschicht [de]: Ladies First [de]	Jacky Herbst
2018	The Team	Gregor Weiss	8 episodes