Heinrich Schafmeister
Actor
Born March 2, 1957 in 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.
Filmography
It's Just a Phase, Honeybunny
Principal
Confessions of Felix Krull
De Venosta's Father
Rosamunde Pilcher: Rundum glücklich
Richard Parsley
Bettys Diagnose
Gerald Jung
Real Buddy
Kaiserschmarrn
Director
Abseitsfalle
Betriebsrat Borchert
Hotel Metamorphosis
Hotelier
Rosamunde Pilcher: Eine Frage der Ehre
Lord Harry Pendoran
Finn und der Weg zum Himmel
Bonifaz Maier
Heiter bis tödlich - Fuchs und Gans
Dr. Sauerbier
Zu schön um wahr zu sein
Wuttke
Heiter bis tödlich - Alles Klara
Walter Stichling
A Family of Three
Bürgermeister
Das große Comeback
Swens
Lauras Stern und die Traummonster
Vater(voice)
Familie macht glücklich
Frank Zenka
Biss zur großen Pause - Das Highschool Vampir Grusical
Milchmann
Aschenputtel
Fürst Alfons
Rosamunde Pilcher: Wenn das Herz zerbricht
Humphrey Smith
Laura's Star and the Mysterious Dragon Nian
Lauras Vater (voice)
Evet, I Do!
Lüder
Das Glück am Horizont
Lothar
Oben ohne
Udo Maulhart
Vollidiot
Man at IKEA #1
Leaps and Bounds
Laura's Star Xmas Special
Vater (voice)
TKKG - The Secret of the Mysterious Mind Machine
Georg
Pik & Amadeus – Freunde wider Willen
Herr Königstein
Willkommen in Lüsgraf
Rüdiger
Charlie 2
Blixt
Die ProSieben Märchenstunde
Vater Richmuth
Urmel aus dem Eis
Habakuk Tibatong
Suche Mann für meine Frau
Pater Alois
Brautpaar auf Probe
Edmund Krüger
Der Staatsanwalt
Dr. Stefan Schiller
Liebe in der Warteschleife
Postbote
Laura's Star
Papa (voice)
Inga Lindström
Mika
SOKO Köln
Jürgen Sturm
Was nicht passt, wird passend gemacht
Eberhard
Auch Erben will gelernt sein
Hermann Helmholtz
In der Mitte eines Lebens
Sprudel
Pfarrer Braun
Sigmund von Darendorf
Wie erziehe ich meine Eltern?
Dr. Carlo Mittenzwey
Grains and Dog
Dr. Bernhardt
Like Rabbits
Günther Bienentreu
If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer
Stadtrat
Edel & Starck
Die Rosenheim-Cops
Gisbert von Ackersberg
The Slurb
Department Manager
Pinky und der Millionenmops
Dr. Webster
Sophie - Sissis kleine Schwester
Düfflipp
Hart aber fair
Self
Alle Kinder brauchen Liebe
Jürgen Hertwig
Seitensprung ins Glück
Dr. Rüdiger Baer
...and It Is Only the Beginning
Rudolf
Der Pfundskerl
Volmer
Bear on the Run
lovec
Marlene
Pianist
Zimmer mit Frühstück
Wolf
maybrit illner
Self
At Fifty, Men Kiss Differently
Bernhard
SK Kölsch
Pfarrer Norbert Bliesheim
In aller Freundschaft
Matthias Reimers
Solo for Clarinet
Pathologe
Der Campus
Falscher Arzt
Salto Kommunale
Hempelmann
The Harmonists
Erich A. Collin
Die Camper
Dieter Denkelmann
Harald
Harald
Das Amt
Bernhard Klüver
Schlosshotel Orth
Manfred Häussinger
A Girl Called Rosemarie
von Oelsen
Mit einem Bein im Grab
Klaus
Zimmer frei!
Self
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Ludwig Tietze
Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall
LKW Fahrer
Der Leihmann
Sommer-Höllenstein
Und tschüss!
Bankdirektor Pape
Balko
Dr. Konrad Ihsen
Wilsberg
Mani
Man in Search of Woman
Herbert
A.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft
Kommissar Lausitz
Inspector Rex
Dr. Wimmer
Maybe... Maybe Not
Klaus Dieter
The Invincibles
Gerd Falck
Doppelter Einsatz
Martin Wund
Das Phantom
Werner
Ein starkes Team
Wolfgang Meyer
Polski Crash
Dieter Brötz
Weißblaue Wintergeschichten
Hufnagel
Die Skrupellosen - Hörigkeit des Herzens
Titus Huber
Wildbach
Jörg Schefe
Freunde fürs Leben
Horst Münch
Little Sharks
Mercedes
Go Trabi Go 2: Those Were the Days of the Wild East
Fricke
My Daughter Belongs to Me
Riverboat
Self
Leo und Charlotte
DAS!
Self
Tiger, Löwe, Panther
Der Leibwächter
Peter Strohm
Direktionsassistent
Year of the Turtle
The Cat
Otten
The Country Doctor
Volker Schachtelmann
Weißblaue Geschichten
Der Fahnder
Hans Heinz
Treffer
Chris
Büro, Büro
Dr. Eberhard Scheibing
Das Traumschiff
Thomas Baum
A Case For Two
Dentzel
NDR Talk Show
Self
SOKO München
Kurt Reitmeier
Kölner Treff
Self
Polizeiruf 110
Scene of the Crime
Pohl