Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 08, 1966
Place of Birth
Krefeld, North RhineWestphalia, Germany
Credits
107 titles
Heiko Pinkowski
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Thirty Years with the Whip
Fred
Where's Wanda?
School of Magical Animals 3
Willi Wondraschek
Hammerthal Drei
Self
Berlin Bad Trip
Falk Heise
What the Finn?! – Summer of Surprises
Polizist
The Ordinaries
Overmodulated Voice Outtake
Zitterinchen
Pfarrer / Kutscher / Wärter
Orphea in Love
Höllbach
Aphasia
Heins
School of Magical Animals 2
Willi Wondraschek
Malibu
Nikos Mariolis
All In
Uwe
Doppelhaushälfte
Dr. Loch
The School of the Magical Animals
Willi Wondraschek
Werkstatthelden mit Herz
Becker
Johannes Kepler - Storming the Heavens
Tycho Brahe
Rookies
Werner Kampmann
A Last Hurrah
Rudolf Brandt
Das vergessene Dorf – Cora Steins erster Fall
Harald von Bulkow
Cleo
Günni
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Bernd
Endlich Witwer
Ion Müller
DRUCK
Campingplatzbesitzer
Chaos-Queens - Ehebrecher und andere Unschuldslämmer
Rüdiger Hagen
Für Umme
Dieter Koslowski
Lux - Krieger des Lichts
Brandt
Tiger Milk
Rainer Maas
Girl Cave
Marco
Sissi ohne Franz
erster Patient
Kroymann
Politiker
Luther and I
Einstein
Reinhard Schiller
Schlimmer geht immer
Ulf
Familie Lotzmann auf den Barrikaden
Einsatzleiter Schulze
Plötzlich Türke
The Last Pig
Theissen
Departure
Herr Buche
Hands of a Mother
Gerhard
Scrappin'
Schmied
The Pasta Detectives 3
Otto
Shakespeares letzte Runde
Falstaff
I'm Off Then
Bernd
Alki Alki
Tobias
Einer für alle, alles im Eimer
Sebastian
Engel unter Wasser - Ein Nordseekrimi
Michael Brandstetter
Heil
Kollege von B.
Open Cage
Rainer
Like a Cast Shadow
Justus
Out of Frame