Career
Ulmen started his television career in 1996 as a video jockey on Music Television Europe. Ulmen has also appeared in leading roles in successful cinema productions including "Herr Lehmann" (2003), the screenplay "The Elementary Particles" (2006), based on Michel Houellebecq"s novel of the same title, and Men in the City directed by Simon Verhoeven and released in October 2009. From 2013, Ulmen and Nora Tschirner will play a team of investigators in the Weimar-based episodes of the Tatort series.