Martin Wuttke

Martin Wuttke is a German actor and director who trained at theater colleges in Bochum and went on to work widely in the German-speaking theater world. He has performed at the Volksbühne in Berlin, the Berliner Ensemble, the Schaubühne, the Deutsches Theater, the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Schauspielhaus Zürich and other houses, and in 1999 he played Hitler as a petty Chicago gangster in the Berliner Ensemble's American staging of Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, a performance critics praised. In 2009 he became director of the Burgtheater in Vienna and joined its ensemble. He gained international recognition as Adolf Hitler in Inglourious Basterds (2009), whose cast won a Screen Actors Guild Award. He also appeared in Babylon Berlin from 2020 to 2022 and in 2023 played Reinhard Gehlen in a post-war political drama.