Heinrich Schafmeister

Birthday: 1957-03-02
Birthplace: Essen, Germany
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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.

Credits

	Year	Title	Character
	2021-10-14	It's Just a Phase, Honeybunny	Principal
	2021-09-02	Confessions of Felix Krull	De Venosta's Father
	2015-05-24	Rosamunde Pilcher: Rundum glücklich	Richard Parsley
	2014-01-01	Real Buddy
	2013-10-31	Kaiserschmarrn	Director
	2013-10-23	Antilopen	Ralf "Ralle" Schmitz
	2013-09-26	Abseitsfalle	Betriebsrat Borchert
	2013-06-20	Hotel Metamorphosis	Hotelier
	2013-01-13	Rosamunde Pilcher: Eine Frage der Ehre	Lord Harry Pendoran
	2012-11-21	Finn und der Weg zum Himmel	Bonifaz Maier
	2012-06-06	Zu schön um wahr zu sein	Wuttke
	2012-01-10	A Family of Three	Bürgermeister
	2011-10-13	Das große Comeback	Swens
	2011-10-13	Lauras Stern und die Traummonster	Vater(voice)
	2011-09-22	Familie macht glücklich	Frank Zenka
	2011-03-19	Biss zur großen Pause - Das Highschool Vampir Grusical	Milchmann
	2010-12-24	Aschenputtel	Fürst Alfons
	2010-10-10	Rosamunde Pilcher: Wenn das Herz zerbricht	Humphrey Smith
	2010-04-28	Eines Tages...	Frieder Ahrlenz
	2009-09-24	Laura's Star and the Mysterious Dragon Nian	Lauras Vater (voice)
	2008-06-19	Evet, I Do!	Lüder
	2008-05-30	Das Glück am Horizont	Lothar
	2008-04-23	Mütter Väter Kinder	Wolfgang Thesen
	2008-01-16	Armer schwarzer Kater	Herr Kolitzky
	2007-04-11	Vollidiot	IKEA Mann
	2007-02-09	Leaps and Bounds
	2006-12-01	Laura's Star Xmas Special	Vater (voice)
	2006-09-28	TKKG - The Secret of the Mysterious Mind Machine	Georg
	2006-09-26	Pik & Amadeus – Freunde wider Willen	Herr Königstein
	2006-08-12	Willkommen in Lüsgraf	Rüdiger
	2006-04-16	Charlie 2	Blixt
	2005-12-17	Urmel aus dem Eis	Professor Habakuk Tibatong
	2005-08-19	Suche Mann für meine Frau	Pater Alois
	2005-03-15	Brautpaar auf Probe	Edmund Krüger
	2004-10-05	Liebe in der Warteschleife	Postbote
	2004-09-19	Laura's Star	Papa (voice)
	2003-05-10	Auch Erben will gelernt sein	Hermann Helmholtz
	2003-04-18	In der Mitte eines Lebens	Sprudel
	2002-09-12	Like Rabbits	Günther Bienentreu
	2002-03-07	If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer	Stadtrat
	2002-01-01	Wie verliebt man seinen Vater?	Prof. Hans Hansen
	2001-10-17	The Slurb	Department Manager
	2001-08-16	Pinky und der Millionenmops	Dr. Webster
	2001-01-21	Ehemänner und andere Lügner	Armin Wüpper
	2000-12-21	Alle Kinder brauchen Liebe	Jürgen Hertwig
	2000-12-01	Seitensprung ins Glück	Dr. Rüdiger Baer
	2000-07-27	...and It Is Only the Beginning	Rudolf
	2000-04-06	Bear on the Run	lovec
	2000-03-09	Marlene	Pianist
	2000-01-24	Zimmer mit Frühstück	Wolf
	1999-04-09	At Fifty, Men Kiss Differently	Bernhard
	1999-01-27	Bis zum Horizont und weiter	Verteidiger
	1998-10-15	Solo for Clarinet	Pathologe
	1998-02-05	Der Campus	Falscher Arzt
	1997-12-25	The Harmonists	Erich A. Collin
	1997-03-25	Seitensprung in den Tod	Bernd
	1997-02-04	Diamanten küßt man nicht
	1997-01-01	Harald	Harald
	1996-10-25	A Girl Called Rosemarie	von Oelsen
	1996-01-01	Nadine, nackt im Bistro	Jack
	1995-06-29	Der Leihmann	Sommer-Höllenstein
	1995-02-01	Man in Search of Woman	Herbert
	1994-10-05	Maybe... Maybe Not	Klaus Dieter
	1994-09-22	The Invincibles	Gerd Falck
	1994-09-05	Das Phantom	Werner
	1994-01-25	Polski Crash	Dieter Brötz
	1993-12-15	Die Skrupellosen - Hörigkeit des Herzens	Titus Huber
	1993-05-19	Dance of Death
	1992-09-03	Little Sharks	Mercedes
	1992-08-20	Go Trabi Go 2: Those Were the Days of the Wild East	Fricke
	1992-05-28	My Daughter Belongs to Me
	1991-09-17	Leo und Charlotte
	1991-04-29	Forever Young	Martin
	1990-10-26	Eine Wahnsinnsehe	Strubel
	1989-07-06	Tiger, Löwe, Panther
	1989-03-19	Der Leibwächter
	1988-11-17	Year of the Turtle
	1988-01-21	The Cat	Otten
	1984-06-29	Treffer	Chris