
Heinrich Schafmeister
Actor · b. 1957 · Essen, Germany
Heinrich Schafmeister is a German actor and presenter. He is the second of three children born to the former President of the State Social Court of Schleswig-Holstein. He attended primary school from 1963 to 1967, followed by the Albert-Einstein-Realschule in Essen until 1973. Subsequently, he completed his *Abitur* (university-entrance diploma) at the St.-Pius-Gymnasium in Coesfeld and went on to study German Studies and Music. He dropped out of his university studies in 1980 to transfer to the Folkwang University of the Arts. There, he was classmates with Armin Rohde and Hansa Czypionka. After graduating, he performed in theater productions in Aachen for six years. He made his cinematic debut in 1984 in the film *Treffer*, directed by Dominik Graf. Schafmeister also frequently appears in television series—for instance, as Didi Denkelmann in *Die Camper*, as Manfred Höch in *Wilsberg*, or as Karl Wolkenfuß in *Wie erziehe ich meine Eltern?*. Schafmeister gained wider public recognition through the film *Comedian Harmonists*, in which he portrayed the singer Erich A. Collin. Schafmeister serves voluntarily as the Treasurer of the *Bundesverband Schauspiel* (BFFS)—the professional union for actors. As a board member, he is also responsible for social and collective bargaining policy. In this capacity, he played a key role in late 2013 in concluding the first collective bargaining agreement for actors in the German film and television industry—an agreement that, among other provisions, established a minimum starting wage for newcomers to the profession. He lives in Cologne and is married to Jutta Schafmeister, an actors' agent. Together with Leonard Lansink, Schafmeister performs in theater productions. During the 2014 European elections, he publicly supported the SPD and its lead candidate, Martin Schulz. From July 23 to December 2018, he co-hosted the program *Live nach Neun* alongside Alina Stiegler.
Series24
TV6.2DramaCrimeTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
- TV4.4News
Volle Kanne
1999 · 7 votes
TV4.7Talk ShowNewsEvery evening at 6:45 p.m. sharp, a prominent guest takes a seat on the red sofa—and DAS! provides daily updates on what's hot in the north.
DAS!
1991 · 6 votes
- TV7.0NewsTalk Show
ZIBB
2003 · 1 votes
- TVTalk Show
Alpha Forum
1998
TV6.8Talk ShowKölner Treff
1976 · 4 votes
TV6.3CrimeComedyA team of inspectors investigates murders in and around the small Upper Bavarian town of Rosenheim, and they still have plenty of time to see idyllic landscapes and luxurious pre-alpine villas and enjoy sumptuous Bavarian fare with beer.
Die Rosenheim-Cops
2002 · 28 votes
TV5.9CrimeSOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German.
SOKO München
1978 · 7 votes
TV6.6Talk ShowNDR Talk Show
1979 · 5 votes
TV6.4CrimeThe SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Cologne clique to the terraced housing estates on the outskirts of the city.
SOKO Köln
2003 · 8 votes
TV6.3CrimePolizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.
Polizeiruf 110
1971 · 26 votes
TV6.3SoapGerman soap opera about the staff of the fictional hospital "Sachsenklinik" in the city of Leipzig.
In aller Freundschaft
1998 · 7 votes
TV6.6DramaComedyA long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.
TV5.7DramaCrimeEin Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series.
TV9.0Talk ShowPolitical talk show on current topics presented by Maybrit Illner.
maybrit illner
1999 · 2 votes
TV5.2Talk ShowRiverboat
1992 · 4 votes
TV4.9DramaSeries written by Christiane Sadlo about writer and journalist under the pseudonym "Inga Lindström" and her family. Characterized by impressive landscapes, all of which are shot on location in Sweden. Series has no continuous storyline, and each episode is filled with new characters.
Inga Lindström
2004 · 9 votes
TV7.0Talk ShowZimmer frei!
1996 · 13 votes
- TV7.2Talk Show
3 nach 9
1974 · 5 votes
TV5.0ComedyFamilyThe series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world.
Das Traumschiff
1981 · 17 votes
- TV3.0Crime
Die Wache
1994 · 3 votes
- TV9.0Talk Show
Tietjen und Bommes
1997 · 1 votes
TV5.4CrimeDer Staatsanwalt
2005 · 8 votes
TV5.0DramaCrimeThe unlikely police pair Verena Berthold and Otto Garber are part of a special task force investigating organized crime in Berlin. He comes from the east, she from the west of Berlin. He's a redneck, she's from a better background. This causes conflict. Over time, things start to sizzle between the two. Their team includes the agile German-Turkish Yücsel and the sluggish Georg, who, like Verena and Otto, are constantly bickering. The department manager is Lothar Reddemann. Sputnik is a former colleague of Otto's from the People's Police and is constantly coming up with new business ideas for stores and pubs where the team meets.
Ein starkes Team
1994 · 11 votes
Movies23
Movie6.5DramaCrimeLiterary adaptation: a handsome youth of humble origins rises in society through his connections made as an elevator attendant in a luxury hotel.
Movie6.2ComedyDramaThe successful writer Paul and the sought-after voice actress Emilia were always considered to be the absolute dream couple by friends: Harmonious, happy, successful, with three charming children named Bo, Marie and Fe. But now, in their late 40s, their relationship is threatened by a crisis.
Movie6.4AnimationFamilyLaura sees a shooting star falling to earth and finds it in a park, down on the floor and with a broken point. The star is a living being, and Laura takes her home to reattach its point with a band-aid. The little star has special powers and can make people fly, or bring inanimate objects to life. But the more she stays on Earth, the weaker she becomes and her colors fade away and her powers start to fail. Laura must find a way to send the little star back into outer space.
Movie5.0DramaScience FictionAfter six and a half years in the toughest prison the near future has to offer, Morris the fraudster tries to survive his last day in jail. With his booty of five million Dollars hidden safely within the prison walls he cannot wait to get out and start a bright future. But first he must survive the constant threat of the world ending outside and the attempts of his fellow inmates inside to get his money. With his cell buddy at his side, he struggles to keep his secret and hopes the world is still there tomorrow.
Real Buddy
2014 · 2 votes
Movie7.0DramaCrimeFilm is about the undercover assignment of a BKA officer as the bodyguard of a drug baron. His job is to gather information to put a stop to the cartel. But unfortunately everything goes wrong, "The Bodyguard" is exposed and eliminated in Turkey. He survives, returns and wants to complete his mission despite betrayal within his own ranks.
Der Leibwächter
1989 · 2 votes
Movie4.6ComedyDramaBased on Tommy Jaud's bestselling novel, this comedy focuses on a dispassionate clerk and his set-backs in life. 29-year-old Simon works in a phone shop, but his thoughts just circle around finding a new girl-friend after being left by his last one year ago. While his Croatian cleaner tries to procure him, his efforts to chat up women in clubs also fail. However, he finds the woman of his dreams (and mother of their future children) in his most hated coffee shop, although not having a clue how to win her heart...
Vollidiot
2007 · 70 votes
Movie4.5ComedyElated by the Italian attitude to life, family Struutz returns to Bitterfeld and experiences a shock: In the turmoil of the reunification her house must give way to a golf course. Hope Udo teacher, his wife Rita and daughter Jacqueline through the surprising inheritance of a factory near Dresden. But of market economy, the staid Saxons unfortunately have no idea. Help comes in the guise of adventurer and condoms dealer Charlie, who works as a "business consultant" and gives Udo a Rock & Roll crash course in capitalism - with unsurpassed success.
Go Trabi Go 2 - Das war der wilde Osten
Go Trabi Go 2: Those Were the Days of the Wild East
1992 · 27 votes
Movie6.7MusicDramaComedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first in 1927 to the day in 1934, when they become banned by the upcoming Nazis, because three of them are Jewish.
Movie6.4ComedyFrustrated with their lazy new intern, a trio of offbeat builders decide to teach him a lesson with a series of escalating pranks.
Movie6.0ComedyFamilyOne Saturday, the Slurb, a strange little creature with a proboscis nose, enters Mr. Taschenbier's life. Slurb, who immediately adopts the shy Mr. Taschenbier as his "daddy," is, however, his sheer opposite: he is cheeky and chaotic and throws his well-ordered life into sheer chaos. But when Taschenbier discovers that he can fulfill all his wishes with the help of Slurb's blue freckles, his life suddenly changes. He appeases his bad-tempered landlady, Mrs. Rotkohl, and he can finally get one over on his nasty neighbor, Mr. Lürcher. Everything could be so nice if Mr. Taschenbier didn't fall in love with his pretty colleague Mrs. März and if the Slurb didn't almost burst with jealousy...
Movie6.2ComedyDramaThe heterosexual man Axel is thrown out of his girlfriends home for cheating and ends up moving in with a gay man. Axel learns the advantages of living with gay men even though they are attracted to him and when his girlfriend wants him back he must make a tough decision.
Movie3.7ComedyA group of men, addicted to pornography, have a chance to live out their fantasies but find that the reality is far different from what they expect.
Movie5.7FamilyAdventureAt first, friendgroup TKKG have no idea that something is amiss when “Jugend forscht” winner Kevin behaves strangely during the presentation of his “Mind Machine” - they blame his nervousness and his unexpected termination of the speech on relationship stress with his girlfriend Nadine. But when Nadine disappears without a trace shortly afterwards, like three other children before her, the amateur detectives know that they have to help the police with their investigation.
TKKG - Das Geheimnis um die rätselhafte Mind-Machine
TKKG - The Secret of the Mysterious Mind Machine
2006 · 24 votes
Movie8.2ComedyTV MovieThere are incredible things on the South Sea island of Titiwu: Professor Habakuk Tibatong has taught some animals to speak. For example, the pig lady Wutz, the quirky shoebill Schusch, the lively penguin Ping and the monitor lizard Wawa. On the rocky reef, the sea fan is always singing his "traurägän Lädär", and then there is the orphan Tim Tintenklecks. Everyone lives in peace and tranquillity - until the Urmel appears ...
Urmel aus dem Eis
2005 · 3 votes
Movie3.0ComedyRosamunde Pilcher: Rundum glücklich
2015 · 4 votes
Movie7.7ComedyPinky, a child detective, solves two cases for multi-millionaire Jonathan Morgan.
Pinky und der Millionenmops
2001 · 3 votes
Movie7.2ComedyWhen dishwasher Ingo, whose girl-friend has just left him, returns a borrowed bar stool to the Folkwang Acting School in Essen, he stumbles into the audition for next year's new students. He lets Johannes, the broke and unsuccessful applicant, stay with him. Ingo decides to go to Munich with Johannes, where he wants to try his luck once again. Hitchhiking, they get rides with very different drivers on the autobahn. They meet up with the smooth-talking Ali in the wayside dinner "Raststätte Spessart". Arriving in Munich, the trio tries to find cheap sleeping accommodation. They enter Ingo into the audition at Munich acting school. Moreover, Johannes falls in love with street artist Herta from Berlin. Written by emkarpf
Movie6.0ComedyMysteryThe last three vampires in the world - Edwin Wolkenstein, his father Vladimor and his brother Günni - are driven out of Transylvania by the vampire hunter Ignaz van Hellbring. Edwin, of all people, knows where they can find shelter: with Edwin's pen pal Fella. Once there, Edwin realizes that Fella has lied to him. She is not the blonde musical beauty, but a nerd girl. But Edwin doesn't go down particularly well with his new classmates either...
Biss zur großen Pause - Das Highschool Vampir Grusical
2011 · 3 votes
Movie4.0AdventureThirteen-year-old Julia leaves Berlin, where she resides with her father, to spend vacation in the Czech Republic. While there she experiences first love, and also tries to help the local kids rescue a circus bear from a rich German hunter who's willing to pay for a bit of sport. If the parents get their way they'll use Mr. Big Game to finance the circus and even contribute to local pensions. The children and the bear head for the forest.
- MovieDrama
Eines Tages...
2010
Movie6.4ThrillerCrimeTwo bank robbers hold the clerks hostage and demand 3 million German marks as ransom. What the police do not realize is that the true criminal mastermind watches them from outside the bank, anticipating every move.
Movie9.0DramaTV MovieEva loves Fabian, a young and ambitious actor, but his tendency to be self-centered and his lack of responsibility puts them both to the test. Despite Eva's warnings, he gets behind the wheel of his car after a lively premiere party and causes an accident in her presence in which Titus, a young man, is seriously injured. Fabian doesn't care, but Eva is worried about the injured man. A relationship develops between the two...
Die Skrupellosen - Hörigkeit des Herzens
1993 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
Gerda Förster has every reason to be surprised when husband Kurt suddenly shows a preference for red thong panties.
Ehemänner und andere Lügner
2001 · 1 votes