Tim Oliver Schultz

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Tim Oliver Schultz while filming Fathers - Alone at Home , October 2018

Tim Oliver Schultz (born July 22, 1988 in Berlin ) is a German actor and film producer .

life and career

Family and Beginnings

Schultz comes from Berlin, where he was born as the son of a specialist in lung diseases. He grew up with his three siblings in Berlin-Wannsee . When he was twelve years old, his parents' marriage ended in divorce. Tim Oliver Schultz came to acting through an acquaintance of his mother, who advised him to go to an audition. Schultz was discovered by a Berlin casting agent in 1999 when he was 11 years old. He later completed acting training with Cathy Haase, Regula Kukula and Ulrike Jackwerth.

He had his first role in the comedy television series The Next Coup Everything Will Be Different (2000). After his participation in the ZDF series Ein starkes Team (2001), in which he played the boy Mirko alongside Maja Maranow , several other roles for television followed, initially mostly smaller offers. During this early period he played the son of a successful lawyer in the television film Sternzeichen (2003) alongside Heikko Deutschmann and Karin Giegerich .

Further film and television roles

Schultz then soon took on larger television roles. In the 7th season of the children's and youth series Schloss Einstein , where he met many young acting beginners in the years that followed, he was seen as the bartender and heartthrob Joe from 2005 to 2006. In the ZDF early evening series Hallo Robbie! (2006–2007) he had a recurring series role as Felix , the friend of the daughter of marine biologist Dr. Jens Lennart. In the Sat1 television comedy One more word and I'll marry you! (2007), in which Anica Dobra and Richy Müller were his film parents, he embodied the male part of a pair of twins who were born as a result of a sperm donation . In the TV drama The Other Boy (2007), in which Schultz was seen alongside Barbara Auer and Christian Berkel as film parents, he played Paul Wagner, a handsome boy from a Hamburg row house, but behind whose charm there is a brutal one Hides sadism and tortures the 16-year-old neighbor boy Robert Morell ( Willi Gerk ) until he struggles and shoots Paul.

This was followed by cinema and television productions such as Die Welle (2008; as a youthful outsider Jens) and Vulkan (2009; as a thug in the village), in which Schultz often had to embody unpleasant types. In the film Ants go other ways (2011), which premiered at the Hof International Film Festival, Schultz, alongside Henriette Confurius , played in his first leading role the closed high school graduate Richard, who voluntarily moves into a youth home after his father's suicide and falls in love with the rebellious roommate Kyra. In Polizeiruf 110: Risk (2012) he also had one of the leading roles as Daniel Reimers; he played the friend of a murdered high school student.

Success roles and awards

Tim Oliver Schultz (2016)

Schultz had great success with the portrayal of Max in the musical comedy System Fehler - Wenn Inge tanzt (2013), where he played the arrogant front man of a punk rock band who falls in love with a girl ( Paula Kalenberg ) he doesn't like at all. For this role, Schultz learned to sing professionally and to play the bass guitar . In the movie Die Vampirschwestern 2 - Fledermäuse im Bauch (2014), Schultz also played a musician. He played the heartthrob Murdo, the lead singer of a vampire band.

He had another major leading role in the fairy tale film From someone who set out to learn to be afraid (2014) as the fearless pottery boy Michel. In the ZDF fairytale film The White Snake , which was first broadcast in December 2015, Schultz took on the male lead role of the farmer's son Endres, who eventually becomes king. Schultz then also played the role of Murdo in the sequel The Vampire Sisters 3 - Journey to Transylvania , which was released in December 2016.

In 2015, Schulz took on the leading role of Leo, who is suffering from cancer, in the TV series Club of the Red Ribbons . For his role, Schultz had his hair completely shaved off and played with bald head. For this he received the Grimme Prize in 2016 . In May 2016, Schultz received the ensemble award at the German Actor Award for the TV series Club der rote Bänder together with the actors Timur Bartels , Nick Julius Schuck , Luise Befort , Ivo Kortlang and Damian Hardung .

In the television series Einstein , which has been broadcast on Sat.1 since January 2017 , Schultz played the young start-up millionaire Lutz Heineking in the first episode of Ballistics . In the movie Club of the Red Ribbons - How It All Began , which came to German cinemas in February 2019 and starts before the events of the TV series, Schultz also played the role of Leo, whose life and fate are the focus of the theatrical version . In the TV movie Song for Mia (2019), Schultz played the good-looking young Munich singer Sebastian "Sebbe" Jagow, whose life takes a decisive turn after an accident in which he loses his sight.

In the press, Schultz was named the “Shooting Star” of 2015 several times. The daily newspaper DIE WELT described him in a detailed newspaper portrait in 2015 as a “teen idol” and “role model” for young people. The tabloids referred to him, alluding to his attractive appearance, often as "Schnuckel" ( Bravo ), "handsome", and as a "swarm of women and girls".

Producer and private

In addition to his work as an actor, Schultz has been studying production at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin since 2011 . Since 2014 he has been working as a film producer with his first small films at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. His first own film production is the German-Bulgarian co-production of the film drama Zhaleika , which depicts the life of a small Bulgarian village and in which the 17-year-old girl Lora is confronted with the death of her father. The film ran in 2016 at the Berlin International Film Festival in the official competition (“Generation” section) and was awarded a “Honorable Mention” by the International Jury.

Tim Oliver Schultz currently lives (as of February 2019) in a three-person flat share in Berlin-Schöneberg .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Tim Oliver Schultz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Panorama Tim Oliver Schultz: 27 years old and suddenly a teen idol ; Portrait in: DIE WELT . Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  2. a b c d Tim Oliver Schultz Vita at Filmreporter.de. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  3. A strong team: betrayed and sold . Plot / production details / photos (with Tim Oliver Schultz) at TV Spielfilm . Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  4. Joe . Roller profile. Einstein Castle Wiki. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  5. The other boy . prisma.de. Retrieved January 7, 2017
  6. The other boy . Movie review on kino.de . Retrieved January 7, 2017
  7. And the volcano spat out a star in: BZ from October 19, 2009. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  8. ^ "Vulkan" Bubbling atomic bomb in: Focus from October 19, 2009. Accessed on May 21, 2016.
  9. Ants go other ways ( Memento of December 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) TV review in: Heilbronner Voice of May 27, 2013. Retrieved on May 21, 2016.
  10. Ants go other ways TV review in: Frankfurter Rundschau of June 3, 2013. Accessed on May 21, 2016.
  11. The Vampire Sisters 2 - Bats in the Belly (2014) ; Film review in: cinema.de . Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  12. The Vampire Sisters 2 - Bats in the Belly (2014) ; Film review in: cinema.de . Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  13. Club of Red Ribbons: Tim Oliver Schultz shows himself bald for the first time VOX.de. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  14. Germany's best actor honored in the Zoo-Palast . In: BZ of May 20, 2016. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  15. “THE RED BAND CLUB” SHOOTS INTO PLACE 1 OF THE KINOCHARTS . In: BILD from February 15, 2019. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
  16. Song for Mia . Official website Das Erste . Retrieved February 18, 2019.
  17. New RTL series with the "Club der rote Bänder" star? Quotemeter.de of January 3, 2016. Accessed May 21, 2016.
  18. Tim Oliver Schultz: "Club der Roten Bänder" star soon in a new series? TV Movie from January 4, 2016. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  19. A promising shooting star: Tim Oliver Schultz . In: TV feature film . Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  20. ^ "Club of the Red Ribbons": This is how leading actor Tim Oliver Schultz ticks . In: tvmovie.de . November 17, 2015. Accessed November 24, 2015.
  21. Tim Oliver Schultz: What does the star from "The Club of Red Ribbons" plan privately? . In: Jolie, August 13, 2018. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  22. Tim Oliver Schultz private: Does the twinkle from "Club of the Red Ribbons" have a girlfriend? . News portal news.de from February 25, 2019. Retrieved on March 2, 2019.