As one of Germany’s most demanded actors Heinrich Schafmeister is constantly present as a character actor on stage and the big screen. Trained at the famous Folkwang University in Essen Schafmeister already made his cinematic debut 1984 in Treffer by German director Dominik Graf. Many grand Box-office-hits of the last two decades like Der bewegte Mann, Die Sieger or Der Campus owe their success to the unique talent of Heinrich Schafmeister. In his most famous role to date Schafmeister portrayed legendary musician Erich Abraham Collin in Joseph Vilsmaier’s Comedian Harmonists for which he has been awarded with the Bavarian Film Award in 1998. In Real Buddy Schafmeister’s dramatic acting skills shine in his peculiar performance of the strange officer called Paleface.