Background
Heinrich Schmieder was the son of Albanian-banatdeutsch immigrants.
Heinrich Schmieder was the son of Albanian-banatdeutsch immigrants.
From 1991-1994 he studied acting at the private Zinner Studio in Munich.
From 1999 to 2001, Schmieder had the role of the Commissioner Tobias von Sachsen in the television series Tatort broadcast by Radio Bremen. He appeared alongside Heino Ferch and Sebastian Koch in the internationally successful 2001 television movie The Tunnel in the role of Theo Lohmann. In 2003 he was nominated for a German Television Award for best actor.
In 2004 he was directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel in the role of Rochus Misch in the Oscar-nominated film Der Untergang.
He joined the German Film Academy in 2005. Schmieder died on 21 July 2010, at the age of 40, in a hotel in Livigno, Italy, while participating in the Bike Transalp.
2004: Hunger foreign
