Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#36617
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Uwe Preuss works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Uwe Preuss appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Uwe. Winter Journey is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, crime, music. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Christine Hartmann, Natja Brunckhorst, Alexander Berner and others, Uwe Preuss helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Winter Journey (2019) as Voice (voice) · Köln 75 (2025) as Mr. Breuer · Gefährliche Wahrheit (2021) as Hans Buttke
Career snapshot
Ranked #36617 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
2016–2026
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Winter Journey
Average Nutevio score
5.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Winter Journey
Most frequent director
Christine Hartmann
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Christine Hartmann
Most common genre
Drama
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 26m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.1
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
7.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Winter Journey, Alone in Berlin — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.3
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Winter Journey, Alone in Berlin.
Most productive era
2020s
14 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.32 films | 5.010 films |
| Thriller | 6.71 film | 6.42 films |
| Comedy | — | 5.55 films |
| Crime | — | 4.04 films |
| Romance | — | 6.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2016Alone in Berlin
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Persicke.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Winter Journey
8.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Klaus.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
16 of 16 films
as Voice (voice)
Directed by Anders Østergaard
as Hans Buttke
Directed by Jens Wischnewski
as Manfred Bauer
Directed by Cüneyt Kaya
as Persicke
Directed by Vincent Perez
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Voice (voice)
Winter Journey (2019)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Voice (voice) gives Uwe Preuss a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Hans Buttke
Gefährliche Wahrheit (2021)
Performance score7.2
Gefährliche Wahrheit asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hans Buttke is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mr. Breuer
Köln 75 (2025)
Performance score7.1
Köln 75 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mr. Breuer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Manfred Bauer
Rising High (2020)
Performance score6.6
Rising High asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Manfred Bauer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Voice (voice)
Start here. Winter Journey is the clearest statement of what Uwe Preuss does — accessible, 89 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Uwe at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Alone in Berlin (2016)
Keeps the drama register of Winter Journey but asks for a colder reading of it.
Rising High (2020)
Keeps the drama register of Alone in Berlin but asks for a colder reading of it.
Gefährliche Wahrheit (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Rising High but asks for a colder reading of it.
Köln 75 (2025)
Keeps the drama register of Gefährliche Wahrheit but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Vincent Perez
Director
1 film together
Notably Alone in Berlin
Anders Østergaard
Director
1 film together
Notably Winter Journey
Cüneyt Kaya
Director
1 film together
Notably Rising High
Jens Wischnewski
Director
1 film together
Notably Gefährliche Wahrheit
Alexander Berner
Director
1 film together
Notably The Kangaroo Conspiracy
Natja Brunckhorst
Director
1 film together
Notably Two to One
Christine Hartmann
Director
1 film together
Notably Hagen Benz - Das Böse in dir
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Anders Østergaard
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Winter JourneyJens Wischnewski
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gefährliche WahrheitVincent Perez
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alone in BerlinCüneyt Kaya
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rising HighNatja Brunckhorst
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Two to OneAlexander Berner
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Kangaroo ConspiracyChristine Hartmann
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hagen Benz - Das Böse in dirSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Winter Journey
as Voice (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Winter Journey
as Voice (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Winter Journey
as Voice (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Winter Journey
as Voice (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Winter Journey
as Voice (voice)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Uwe Preuss has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
12 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Winter Journey
as Voice (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Winter Journey
as Voice (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Köln 75
as Mr. Breuer
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Hagen Benz - Das Böse in dir
as Gunther Benz
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Winter Journey
as Voice (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Alone in Berlin
as Persicke
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Two to One
as Dieter Kulitzka
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Toubab
as Siggi
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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