Buhre was born at Insterburg, East Prussia, Germany (today Chernyakhovsk, Russia) the son of a Lutheran Pastor.
[1] His parents divorced in his childhood and after World War II he started his actor's education at the stage school of Hanover.
He was a member of the ensembles of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Schauspielhaus Bochum, Thalia-Theater Hamburg, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, the Schaubühne in Berlin, Burgtheater in Vienna and the Berliner Ensemble.
[2] His last stage appearance was in Thomas Bernhard's Immanuel Kant at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in 2009.
[2] Buhre was popular among a wider audience for his TV roles in Derrick and Tatort and in the German movie production Anatomy.