Jannik Schümann
Also Known As: یانیک شومان
Biography: Jannik Schümann is a German actor, musical performer, and voice actor. He studied English Studies and Media Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin, where he wrote his bachelor thesis on queer-coding in Disney films. Schümann lives in Berlin with his partner Felix Kruck; they announced their engagement in March 2024. He began his TV career in 2003 with The Rescue Pilots. He had roles in A Life So Far Away (2007) and Tatort: Love Hunger (2007). In 2011, he gained wider recognition by playing Henry in the TV movie Homevideo and made his film debut in Barbara (2012) as Mario. That same year, he played the principal’s son in Middle Maturity. In 2015 he starred as Finn Wilke in My Son Helen (2015). He played the role of Nicholas in the film adaptation of Andreas Steinhöfel’s bestselling novel Center of My World (2016). And he's played Nikolaus Tanz in The Diplomat since 2016. Other appearances include Monster Hunter (2020), Tribes of Europa (2021), and Charité at War (2019).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
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Die Kinder von Blankenese
Overview: Tamar, Josef, Bracha and Wolfgang survived the persecution and the camps. May 1945. The children do not know where their parents are. In the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, they now live next to English soldiers and broken concentration camp inmates. They find shelter in the villa of the Jewish Warburg family in Hamburg-Blankenese. From Hell to Paradise. Anti-Semitism in post-war Germany is catching up with children and educators - hostility in the zoo, disregard in the local hospital. The children are waiting impatiently for the long journey to their new home in Palestine.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-11-17
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Homevideo
Overview: Shy, sensitive high school outsider Jakob Moormann is miserably lacking immaterial support at home, where his strict father, uniformed cop Claas, and selfish mother are too busy breaking up to be there for him. Jakob focuses on class dream-girl Hannah, without much luck. His secret recording of himself masturbating gets into class bullies Henry and Erik's hands through the mother's thoughtlessness. The rascals blackmail Jakob and post the video on the Internet. After a raging lecture phase, dad stands up for Jakob, but his life is already wrecked more than anyone realizes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-08-18
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Superhero
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Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-02-09
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Mittlere Reife
Overview: Having trouble coping with school and their teachers, five students are sent to after school detention by principal Seifert. To avoid expulsion they must take extra hours in ethics. It is their last chance. Stressed out with her own exams, the new trainee teacher Mechthild Bremer is not enthusiastic about being assigned to teach this class. Accordingly, the first couple of hours do not run smoothly. The five give her a hard time.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-09-18
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The Inventive Lady
Overview: After a failed relationship, Alexandra Fuchs does not want to meet men anymore. But when she meets her new job in a shy businessman Gregor, she can't escape to his charm. It also has a creative hobby that eventually takes off with a knife indefinite durability for fresh food. A patent lawyer, Fiona, a former classmate should help. But Fiona plays a double game, invents his own and also has its eye on Gregor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-01-25
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Spieltrieb
Overview: A tangled drama of cruelty and manipulation, attraction and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-10-10
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Tage des letzten Schnees
Overview: A chief commissioner investigates the murder of a young woman and a fatal car accident. Apparently there is a connection between the two cases.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-08-31
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Verbotene Liebe - Queere Opfer der NS-Diktatur
Overview: Sexual minorities were oppressed, imprisoned and murdered by the Nazis. Paragraph 175 criminalized homosexual men during the Nazi era – but the Nazis also discriminated against lesbians and trans people. They should be excluded from the national community. More than 50,000 queer people have been proven to have been persecuted. The documentary highlights three poignant fates in the context of Nazi terror.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-01-16
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Chantal in Fairyland
Overview: Chantal is at the beginning of her career as an influencer when she steps through a mirror and finds herself in a fairy tale. She identifies as Sleeping Beauty. Her best friend Zeynep follows her through the mirror. Chantal’s goal, naturally, is to find a man, definitely a prince. Perhaps she will marry Prince Bosco. She already has a wedding gown, but he seems more interested in men. Her friend, Aladdin (Mido Kotaini), has a magic lamp; he rubs it, and people appear. She works to finish making a flying carpet. There is a wicked witch, Sansara, who sometimes looks old but often young. Her friend Zeynep ends up in a grave but reappears. An elderly rather fat fairy pops up occasionally. Chantal must fight a dragon.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-03-28
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Die kalte Wahrheit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-03-23
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Call Me Helen
Overview: Is. This. My. Son? No matter how often Tobias Wilke poses this question, there's always only one answer: Yes! Tobias, can't believe his eyes when he comes to the airport to pick up his 17-year-old son Finn – and learns that Finn is now calling herself Helen and wearing girls' clothes. Finn/Helen reveals that she's always was a girl, and that she used her year abroad in San Francisco to pass the "everyday life" test. This is required by law for everyone preparing for the sex reassignment surgery they will undergo upon reaching majority. Reactions from Helen's friends, acquaintances and schoolmates cover the entire gamut from derision to solidarity. Especially Helen's father, a well-known chef, finds it difficult to accept a situation he cannot understand. But Helen nearly always finds the right words - and humor - to counterbalance the ignorance and jeers of those around her. It is the beginning of a long, winding road towards the sexual identity she is convinced is hers.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-04-22
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Katie Fforde - Das Meer in dir
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-04-27
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Die drei Federn
Overview: On the advice of his chief counsel Julius, old Lord Gundolf offers the throne to whichever of his sons brings him the finest carpet. He blows three feathers into the air for the boys to follow. The eldest brothers Gerhard and Gebhard are sure they'll win the contest. One goes east and the other goes west. Both make fun of the youngest, Gustav, whom they call "Simpleton", because his feather flies into a forest.
Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-12-26
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Center of My World
Overview: A strange family: 17-year-old Phil lives with his mother and twin sister in an old mansion on the outskirts of town. When he returns from summer camp, the mood in the mansion has soured somehow. Phil doesn’t worry about it, hanging out with his best friend Kat instead. When he starts to feel attracted to a mysterious new student at school, Phil is plunged into emotional turmoil only exacerbated by the trouble at home.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-11-10
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WinneToons - Die Legende vom Schatz im Silbersee
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Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-11-10
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LenaLove
Overview: Set in your average suburban town, a young girl suddenly disappears after being in contact with a strange boy on a social networking platform, and after being bullied by her former best friend. Some people in town start to get nervous as the facade of suburban perfection crumbles, lifting the shadow to reveal a monstrous intrigue and an appalling truth...
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-09-22
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Godless Youth
Overview: German students compete to enter one of the country's elite schools.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-08-31
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High Society
Overview: Two girls from very different social backgrounds discover, at the age of 25, that they had been switched at birth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-09-14
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Taxi
Overview: Hamburg, mid 80s, Alex is a cabby. The sound is hard, pubs are dark and loud, people constantly argue about anything and everything, people smoke all the time, and not just cigarettes. Alex wants love and freedom and sleeps with Dietrich. It's far from being love, but the sex is okay. With Marc, a little person full of dignity, she finds more than that. The rest is struggles with her passengers, the indifferent and the doomed, brutes as other nuisances. This sort of life could go on and on, Alex could drive away from her own life and in doing so lose Marc and not getting rid of Dietrich. Wouldn't there be a small monkey with the same invincible desire for freedom as hers.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-08-20
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Die Hebamme II
Overview: In the second part of the historical thriller, midwife Gesa succeeds in becoming the first female medical student to be admitted to Vienna's General Hospital. But while Gesa immerses herself in the world of medicine, a gruesome series of murders begins to spread fear and terror among the women.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-02-16
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Garmischer Bergspitzen
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Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-12-10
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Jesus Cries
Overview: JESUS CRIES is a modern adaptation of the New Testament. The story is set in a fictitious metropolis in the near future. The First and Third Worlds are reflected in one city. The divide between poor and wealthy continually grows. As insurrection begins, Jesus of Nazareth becomes the political and spiritual force behind change. He is arrested, tortured, and executed. After his death, his disciples are thrown into confusion with feelings of doubt and guilt. They fight over the interpretation of his teachings and their responsibility to his vision. Will they themselves move to action?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-10-24
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Submergence
Overview: While James More is held captive by terrorists in Somalia, thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, his lover Danny Flinders prepares to dive herself in a submersible into the deep bottom of the ocean, tormented by the memories of their brief encounter in France and her inability to know his whereabouts.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-22
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Barbara
Overview: In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good natured clinic head, Andre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-03-08
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Close to the Horizon
Overview: Jessica knows exactly what her life is supposed to look like and where it takes her. But then she meets Danny. He has a complicated past and could confuse all their plans. Jessica has to decide.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-10-10
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The Aftermath
Overview: In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-01
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The Three Investigators in The Secret of Skeleton Island
Overview: The hobby detectives “The Three Investigators” want to take a little break. So they take advantage of an offer from Peter's father, who has accepted a job in South Africa and wants to take the detectives there. But Jupiter, Peter and Bob wouldn't be the three investigators marks feared by the criminal world if they just lounged around in the sun on their vacation. So it's no wonder that the clever boys soon have their next case to solve...
Genres: Mystery Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-07
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9 Days Awake
Overview: “9 Days Awake”, the film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Eric Stehfest. Jannik Schümann plays Eric, a junkie who lives to party. He is addicted to the one drug that makes him feel invincible- "like Jesus and the terminator at the same time." When he is accepted to an acting school in Berlin, he tries to reconnect with his great love Anja (Peri Baumeister), change his life, and strive to be better. But numerous conflicts and issues follow him, leaving him to retreat back to his old ways as other situations escalate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-03-15
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Monster Hunter
Overview: A portal transports Cpt. Artemis and an elite unit of soldiers to a strange world where powerful monsters rule with deadly ferocity. Faced with relentless danger, the team encounters a mysterious hunter who may be their only hope to find a way home.
Genres: Action Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-03
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Your Color
Overview: A friendship is tested when two young men leave their German hometown for a freer life in majestic Barcelona, where fate and choices threaten their once unbreakable bond.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-02-22
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Kolibri
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Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: de
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