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).

Filmography

• 2026Agnes & Amir
• 2026Cyberpunk Romance — Milo
• 2026The Rainbow Fish — Regenbogenfisch
• 2026The Three Investigators: Isle of Death — Olin
• High Stakes — Vincent van de Waal
• 2024Chantal in Fairyland — Prinz Bechtold
• Disco 76 — Robert
• Sisi — Franz
• Westwall — Nick Limbach
• 2021Your Color — Karl Vogel
• 20209 Days Awake — Eric Stehfest
• 2020Monster Hunter — Aiden
• 2020Superhero — Sam
• 2019Close to the Horizon — Danny
• 2019Rate Your Date — Schauspieler
• 2019Tage des letzten Schnees — Lutz Wegner
• 2019The Aftermath — Albert
• 2018Submergence — Paul
• Charité — Otto Marquardt
• 2017Godless Youth — Titus
• 2017High Society — Albrecht von Schlacht
• 2016Center of My World — Nicholas
• Die Diplomatin — Nikolaus Tanz
• 2016Die Hebamme II — Anton
• 2016LenaLove — Tim
• 2015Call Me Helen — Finn Helen Wilke
• 2015Jesus Cries — Lazarus
• Shades of Guilt — Lukas
• 2015Taxi — Alex Bruder Manfred
• 2015The Cold Truth — Thomas
• 2014Die drei Federn — Gustav
• 2014Katie Fforde - Das Meer in dir — Thomas Franklin
• 2013Spieltrieb — Alev El Quamar
• 2013The Inventive Lady — Tommy Freisinger
• 2012Barbara — Mario
• 2012Mittlere Reife — Tim Seifert
• Murder in the North — Tim Landscheid
• 2011Homevideo — Henry
• A gURLs wURLd — Nicholas Holz
• 2010Die Kinder von Blankenese — Walter
• 2010Garmischer Bergspitzen — Heiko Sailer
• Lotta & ... — Ben
• 2009WinneToons - Die Legende vom Schatz im Silbersee — Bobby (voice)
• Das Glück am anderen Ende der Welt — Lukas Holländer
• Hamburg Dockland — Jan Wörner
• SOKO Wismar — Timo Bronnert
• Kommissarin Lucas — Moritz Schreiner
• SOKO Köln — Manuel Fink
• The Peppercorns — Max
• Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP
• Küstenwache — Sören Gutbrodt
• Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police — Martin Gruber
• Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall — Sebastian Engelhardt
• Bella Block — Felix Larson
• The Old Fox — Leon Tiefensee
• Polizeiruf 110 — Jan Gottsched
• Scene of the Crime — Konstantin Auerbach, Felix Freiberg, Louis

Appearances as themselves (9)

• ANDAZ — Self
• Joko & Klaas gegen ProSieben — Self
• Abendshow — Self
• ZIBB — Self
• Volle Kanne — Self
• Leute heute — Self
• Riverboat — Self
• DAS! — Self
• Kölner Treff — Self