Armin Mueller-Stahl
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Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany
Birthday
1930-12-17
Occupation
Actor
Spouse(s)
Gabriele Scholz (1973–present)
Years Active
1956–present
Biography
Armin Mueller-Stahl (born 17 December 1930) is a German film actor, painter, writer and musician. Mueller-Stahl was born in Tilsit, East Prussia (now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia). His mother, Editta, was from an upper class family and became a university professor in Leipzig. His father, Alfred Müller, was a bank teller who changed the family's surname to "Mueller-Stahl". The rest of the family moved to Berlin while his father fought on the Eastern Front in World War II. Mueller-Stahl was a concert violinist while he was a teenager and enrolled at an East Berlin acting school in 1952.
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