Jannik Schümann

Jannik Schümann is a German actor who started performing as a child. Born in Hamburg, he took up dancing and piano, which led to his first role as young Mozart at age nine. He made his screen debut at eleven in an episode of The Air Rescue Team, and by his teens had appeared in television, film, theater, and radio dramas. He rose to prominence in 2011 with the cyberbullying drama Homevideo, earning a New Faces Award nomination. In 2012 he appeared in Barbara and won a Hessischer Fernsehpreis special jury prize for Mittlere Reife. Later roles included Center of My World (2016), Godless Youth (2017), The Aftermath (2019), and Monster Hunter (2020). He won three Jupiter Awards for Best Actor, for Close to the Horizon (2020), 9 Days Awake (2021), and the series Sisi (2022), where he plays Franz Joseph I. He has also appeared in Charité at War and Tribes of Europa.