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Heiko Pinkowski
Krefeld, North RhineWestphalia, Germany
Heiko Pinkowski is a German actor, screenwriter, and film producer. After graduating from high school in 1988 and subsequently dropping out of degree programs in civil engineerin…
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Heiko Pinkowski is a German actor, screenwriter, and film producer. After graduating from high school in 1988 and subsequently dropping out of degree programs in civil engineering, German studies, and philosophy, Heiko Pinkowski worked in various capacities—including as a drafting technician, nursing assistant, welder, truck driver, print prepress specialist, and caregiver for the severely physically disabled. He has been passionate about the theater since his youth. He performed at KRESCH—the Children's and Youth Theater of the City of Krefeld—and, without ever attending drama school, went on to join the City Theater of Krefeld, the Studiobühne Köln, and the Schiller Theater in Berlin. In 1994, he passed the official professional certification exam for stage actors. This was followed by engagements at the Bauhausbühne in Dessau and, from 1995 to 2001, a permanent position at the State Capital Theater in Magdeburg. In 2001, Heiko Pinkowski moved with his family to Berlin, where he has since worked as a freelance actor and producer—performing on stage as well as working both in front of and behind the camera. In 2011, Heiko Pinkowski co-founded the film production company *Sehr gute Filme* (Very Good Films) alongside cinematographer Dennis Pauls, producer Anne Baeker, and director Axel Ranisch. The company's first productions were the no-budget feature *Dicke Mädchen* (Heavy Girls) and the children's film *Reuber*—both directed by Axel Ranisch. With *Dicke Mädchen*, Heiko Pinkowski achieved international festival success and garnered numerous awards in his triple role as actor, co-writer, and producer. Furthermore, at the 2013 Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival, the films *Kohlhaas oder die Verhältnismäßigkeit der Mittel* and *Stufe Drei*—in which he appeared as an actor—won the Audience Awards; the film *Schrotten!* received the same honor in 2016.
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2024
Thirty Years with the Whip
Movie Fred
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2024
Where's Wanda?
TV show
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2024
School of Magical Animals 3
Movie Willi Wondraschek
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2023
Hammerthal Drei
Movie Self
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2023
Berlin Bad Trip
TV show Falk Heise
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2023
What the Finn?! – Summer of Surprises
Movie Polizist
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2023
The Ordinaries
Movie Overmodulated Voice Outtake
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2022
Zitterinchen
Movie Pfarrer / Kutscher / Wärter
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2022
Orphea in Love
Movie Höllbach
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2022
Aphasia
Movie Heins
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2022
School of Magical Animals 2
Movie Willi Wondraschek
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2022
Malibu
TV show Nikos Mariolis
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2022
All In
TV show Uwe
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2022
Doppelhaushälfte
TV show Dr. Loch
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2021
The School of the Magical Animals
Movie Willi Wondraschek
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2020
Werkstatthelden mit Herz
Movie Becker
More credits
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2020
Johannes Kepler - Storming the Heavens
Movie Tycho Brahe
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2020
Rookies
TV show Werner Kampmann
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2020
A Last Hurrah
Movie Rudolf Brandt
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2019
Das vergessene Dorf – Cora Steins erster Fall
Movie Harald von Bulkow
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2019
Cleo
Movie Günni
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2018
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Movie Bernd
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2018
Endlich Witwer
Movie Ion Müller
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2018
DRUCK
TV show Campingplatzbesitzer
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2018
Chaos-Queens - Ehebrecher und andere Unschuldslämmer
Movie Rüdiger Hagen
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2018
Für Umme
TV show Dieter Koslowski
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2018
Lux - Krieger des Lichts
Movie Brandt
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2017
Tiger Milk
Movie Rainer Maas
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2017
Girl Cave
TV show Marco
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2017
Sissi ohne Franz
Movie erster Patient
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2017
Kroymann
TV show Politiker
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2017
Luther and I
Movie
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2017
Einstein
TV show Reinhard Schiller
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2016
Schlimmer geht immer
Movie Ulf
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2016
Familie Lotzmann auf den Barrikaden
Movie Einsatzleiter Schulze
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2016
Plötzlich Türke
Movie
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2016
The Last Pig
Movie Theissen
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2016
Departure
Movie Herr Buche
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2016
Hands of a Mother
Movie Gerhard
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2016
Scrappin'
Movie Schmied
