# Jürgen Vogel

Jürgen Peter Vogel (German pronunciation:; 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.

## Biography

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.

## Awards

* 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

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