Heiko Pinkowski
Born: 1966-10-08 in Krefeld, North RhineWestphalia, Germany
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2024
- Where's Wanda?
- School of Magical Animals 3 as Willi Wondraschek
- Thirty Years with the Whip as Fred
2023
- Berlin Bad Trip as Falk Heise
- Hammerthal Drei as Self
- The Ordinaries as Overmodulated Voice Outtake
- What the Finn?! – Summer of Surprises as Polizist
2022
- Doppelhaushälfte as Dr. Loch
- All In as Uwe
- School of Magical Animals 2 as Willi Wondraschek
- Aphasia as Heins
- Zitterinchen as Pfarrer / Kutscher / Wärter
- Malibu as Nikos Mariolis
- Orphea in Love as Höllbach
2021
- The School of the Magical Animals as Willi Wondraschek
2020
- Rookies as Werner Kampmann
- Johannes Kepler - Storming the Heavens as Tycho Brahe
- Werkstatthelden mit Herz as Becker
- A Last Hurrah as Rudolf Brandt
2019
- Cleo as Günni
- Das vergessene Dorf – Cora Steins erster Fall as Harald von Bulkow
2018
- DRUCK as Campingplatzbesitzer
- Für Umme as Dieter Koslowski
- The Most Beautiful Girl in the World as Bernd
- Endlich Witwer as Ion Müller
- Lux - Krieger des Lichts as Brandt
- Chaos-Queens - Ehebrecher und andere Unschuldslämmer as Rüdiger Hagen
2017
- Einstein as Reinhard Schiller
- Girl Cave as Marco
- Kroymann as Politiker
- Tiger Milk as Rainer Maas
- Luther and I
- Sissi ohne Franz as erster Patient
2016
- Hands of a Mother as Gerhard
- Plötzlich Türke
- The Pasta Detectives 3 as Otto
- Shakespeares letzte Runde as Falstaff
- The Last Pig as Theissen
- Departure as Herr Buche
- Familie Lotzmann auf den Barrikaden as Einsatzleiter Schulze
- Scrappin' as Schmied
- Schlimmer geht immer as Ulf
2015
- Bettys Diagnose as Holger Thelen
- I'm Off Then as Bernd
- Alki Alki as Tobias
- Heil as Kollege von B.
- Out of Frame
- Engel unter Wasser - Ein Nordseekrimi as Michael Brandstetter
- Einer für alle, alles im Eimer as Sebastian
- Like a Cast Shadow as Justus
- Open Cage as Rainer
2014
- Reuber as Rüdiger Reuber
- Josephine Klick as Gerd Brink
- Heiter bis tödlich: Koslowski & Haferkamp as Manni Grabowski
- Von einem, der auszog, das Fürchten zu lernen as Küster
- Die Fahnderin as Jochen Busse
- Wildwechsel as Taxifahrer
2013
- Helden - Wenn Dein Land Dich braucht as Obdachloser
- I Feel Like Disco as Hanno Herbst
- Da Blechhauf’n: Ghostriders in the sky as Edelmann
- Helmut Schmidt - Questions of life as Fahrer
- Kohlhaas or the Proportionality of Means as Rainer
- Vier sind einer zuviel as Kosalla
- Stufe 3 as Norbert
2012
- Kommissar Marthaler as Sauerbier
- Die Draufgänger as Kunde im Sonnenstudio
- Doll, The Fatso And Me as Bombers Chef / Müllabfuhr Stefan
- Hanni & Nanni 2 as Hühner-Hans
- Heavy Girls as Sven
- Offroad as Schützenbruder Pit
- The Animation Tag Attack as Bear
- Idiotentest as Prüfer
- Die Apps as Spam
2010
- Danni Lowinski as Matthias Höfner
- The Royal Siren
- The Hairdresser as Klaus
- Golm as Nachbar
2009
- SOKO Stuttgart as Wilhelm 'Willi' Häberle
- Licht über dem Wasser as Clinton O’Shanley
- Glioblastom as Hr. Pielsticker
- Ganz nah bei Dir
- Barefoot to the Neck as Uwe Hofer
- Betty B. & the The's as Boss
- Der Biobauer as Bauer
- Das total verrückte Wochenende as Mann vom Leihhaus
- Alles was recht ist - Die italienische Variante as Herbert Canninenberg
- Lenz as Herr Kaufmann
2008
- Homicide Hills as Forensic Pathologist
- Doctor's Diary as Herr Ackermann
- Die Stein as Schulrat Heiner Edelmann
- Mein Schüler, seine Mutter & ich as Knut
- Ein starker Abgang as Tonmeister
- Mordshunger as Gopper
- Die Lüge as Polizist
2007
- Dr. Psycho as Draschko
- Kings vom Prenzlauer Berg as Der arbeitslose Arbeiter
- Six Dead Students as Professor Adam
- Hounds
- Der Butler und die Prinzessin as Pensionswirt
- Narzissen
2005
- Brautpaar auf Probe as Manne Günz
2004
- SOKO Wismar as Martin Wille
- Asyl as Bauleiter
2000
- Donna Leon as Claudio Altavilla
1996
- Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police as Karsten Zimmermann
1971
- Polizeiruf 110 as Landwirt Riesbeck
1970
- Scene of the Crime as Wiglaf Beck