Heiko Pinkowski
Acting
- Born:
- 1966-10-08
- Place of birth:
- Krefeld, North RhineWestphalia, Germany
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
Where's Wanda?
School of Magical Animals 3
Hammerthal Drei
Berlin Bad Trip
What the Finn?! – Summer of Surprises
The Ordinaries
Zitterinchen
Orphea in Love
Aphasia
School of Magical Animals 2
Malibu
All In
Doppelhaushälfte
The School of the Magical Animals
Werkstatthelden mit Herz
Johannes Kepler - Storming the Heavens
Rookies
A Last Hurrah
Das vergessene Dorf – Cora Steins erster Fall
Cleo
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Endlich Witwer
DRUCK
Chaos-Queens - Ehebrecher und andere Unschuldslämmer
Für Umme
Lux - Krieger des Lichts
Tiger Milk
Girl Cave
Sissi ohne Franz
Kroymann
Luther and I
Einstein
Schlimmer geht immer
Familie Lotzmann auf den Barrikaden
Plötzlich Türke
The Last Pig
Departure
Hands of a Mother
Scrappin'
The Pasta Detectives 3
Shakespeares letzte Runde
I'm Off Then
Alki Alki
Einer für alle, alles im Eimer
Engel unter Wasser - Ein Nordseekrimi
Heil
Open Cage
Like a Cast Shadow
Out of Frame
Bettys Diagnose
Von einem, der auszog, das Fürchten zu lernen
Reuber
Josephine Klick
Wildwechsel
Heiter bis tödlich: Koslowski & Haferkamp
Die Fahnderin
Helmut Schmidt - Questions of life
I Feel Like Disco
Helden - Wenn Dein Land Dich braucht
Da Blechhauf’n: Ghostriders in the sky
Stufe 3
Kohlhaas or the Proportionality of Means
Vier sind einer zuviel
Doll, The Fatso And Me
Heavy Girls
The Animation Tag Attack
Hanni & Nanni 2
Die Apps
Idiotentest
Kommissar Marthaler
Die Draufgänger
Offroad
The Royal Siren
Golm
Danni Lowinski
The Hairdresser
Betty B. & the The's
SOKO Stuttgart
Lenz
Barefoot to the Neck
Licht über dem Wasser
Alles was recht ist - Die italienische Variante
Das total verrückte Wochenende
Ganz nah bei Dir
Glioblastom
Der Biobauer
Mein Schüler, seine Mutter & ich
Die Lüge
Die Stein
Ein starker Abgang
Doctor's Diary
Mordshunger
Homicide Hills
Narzissen
Six Dead Students
Hounds
Dr. Psycho
Der Butler und die Prinzessin
Kings vom Prenzlauer Berg
Brautpaar auf Probe
SOKO Wismar
Asyl
Donna Leon
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Polizeiruf 110
Scene of the Crime