Jürgen Heimüller

Jürgen Heimüller at the presentation of the German Short Film Award 2019 in Hamburg

Jürgen Heimüller (* 1967 in Nuremberg ) is a German actor , musician and filmmaker .

life and work

He grew up as the youngest of four children in Franconian Switzerland . At the age of six he began to teach himself to play the piano by himself , later adding guitar, drums and singing. In his youth he played in various bands, including the Nuremberg art rock group Kaminsky united .

After his civil service and a broken off German studies course, he got by with various odd jobs, from 1999 he devoted himself to acting; his first theater engagements followed in 2004 with the ZAV exam and admission to the ZAV as an actor.

Musically he concentrated for a long time on cabaret and theater music . In 2010 he accompanied Georg Schmiedleitner's production of Platonov at the Nuremberg State Theater for three hours non-stop on the electric guitar. Among other things, he wrote film music for the short film "Pix" by Sophie Linnenbaum , which premiered at the Max Ophüls Festival in 2017 and was awarded the German Short Film Prize in autumn of the same year .

Between 2015 and 2019 he wrote and spoke 17 episodes of "Allmächt, der Deckenkobold" for the radio series Betthupferl of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation .

In 2016 he starred in the lead role of Morton in the theater film adaptation of Kora , directed by Swiss director Urs Odermatt .

He has also been writing and making his own films since 2016. His short film " The Last Five Minutes of the World ", in which he also played, won the German Short Film Award 2019 , among others .

He currently also plays with the acoustic Balkan formation Metropolski Cirkus Orkestar cajón , vocals and accordion.

Jürgen Heimüller lives in Berlin and Nuremberg.

Theater roles (selection)

2001: Till Eulenspiegel in the spectacle around Till Eulenspiegel at the Landesbühne Oberfranken (Director: Jan Burdinski)
2003: Valerio in Leonce and Lena at the Landesbühne Oberfranken (director: Jan Burdinski)
2008: Michal, Lobosch in Krabat at the Pfütze Theater (Director: Christopher Gottwald)
2009: Help, my money is gone! at the State Theater Nuremberg (Director: Iwona Jera)
2012: Kurt Fellner in India at the Dehnberger Hoftheater (Director: Bernd Schramm)
2014: Stubb, Elias, Peleg in Moby Dick at Theater Pfütze (Director: Karin Eppler)
2014: Professor Marcus in Ladykillers at the Dehnberger Hoftheater (Director: Thomas Klischke )
2015: Volker, Mayor in hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria at the Tafelhalle Nürnberg (Director: Barish Karademir)
2016: Steven Spettigue in Charley's Aunt at the Dehnberger Hoftheater (Director: Marcus Everding )
2017: Head of Qualitiy in Fragments on the board Nürnberg (Director: Barish Karademir)
2017: Bernard Gui, Abbo von Fossanova in The Name of the Rose at Theater Pfütze (Director: Marcelo Diaz)
2019: Justine, Norine, Potard in Die Affäre Rue de Lourcine at the Gostner Hoftheater (Director: Britta Schreiber)
2020: Charles in Madame Bovary, it's me too at the Tafelhalle Nürnberg (Director: Susanna Curtis)

Filmography (selection)

2008: Dahoam is dahoam (TV series, director: Tanja Roitzheim)
2008: Faust (role: Mephisto, feature film, director: Hartwig Müller-Rupprecht)
2010: Introspective Blues (HR, feature film, director: Nikhil Jani)
2014: Bob (HR, short film, director: Marc Rößler)
2015: Out of Frame (short film, director: Sophie Linnenbaum)
2015: Encounters (HR, series pilot, director: Adrian Dure)
2016: Mar (movie, director: Katharina Mihm)
2016: Kora (HR, feature film, director: Urs Odermatt )
2016: Blumentopf (HR, short film, also screenplay and direction)
2017: Comments (HR, short film, director: Jannis Alexander Kiefer)
2017: Warning! Casting (HR, experimental film, director: Urs Odermatt).
2018: The last five minutes of the world (HR, short film, also screenplay and direction)
2018: Dobro Došli (music video, also screenplay and direction)
2018: Don't Read This On A Plane (Movie, Director: Stuart McBratney)
2019: Kaiser (short film, director: Jannis Alexander Kiefer)
2020: Tatort - Where's Mike? (Director: Andreas Kleinert)

Awards

2017 3rd place at the SelfMadeShorty Festival at the Munich Film Festival for "What we dream of"
2017 German short film award in gold for "Pix" (film music)
2018 Short Tiger Award for "Comments"
2019 Neisse Film Festival Audience Award for "The Last Five Minutes of the World"
2019 Nominated for the SelfMadeShorty Festival at the Munich Film Festival with "Happy End"
2019 German Short Film Award : Golden Lola for "The Last Five Minutes of the World"