- Born as the youngest of 4 children of the German-Ukrainian translator and Russian teacher Georg Bullach from Odessa and his German wife Elisabeth Pfister, née Fernau, with French and Spanish roots on grandmother's side.
- He is fluent in German, English and Spanish.
- Resides in Barcelona, Spain and Hamburg, Germany.
- He started his acting career at the age of 12 when he performed Friedrich Schiller's ballad "The Hostage" in the German competition. His teachers sent him to the theatre group and he played his first major role in the theatre of his grammar school, Ottavio in Pantalones Wedding. Since then, the fascination of slipping into other people's shoes has never left him.
- In order to earn the money for his acting school, he completed a 3-year apprenticeship as a businessman (Martin Luther King School Kassel 1980-1983) with a final examination at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Germany and worked in this job for a total of 5 years until 1985.
- Being a pacifist, he was a conscientious objector and did civilian service on the North Sea island of Borkum in the YMCA Hotel Victoria (1985-1987) and learned the hotel trade in all departments of the 400-bed house. During this time, he continues acting theatre and filmed his first short film At the End of the Road in 1986.
- He worked as a director on the island of Borkum for the first time in 1986, founded the "Young Theatre Borkum" and staged the didactic play What Does Love Mean? In this pedagogical classic about the love of Paula and Paul, he declared gay and lesbian love and sexuality to be normality in his role as Paul and as a teacher. In 1986, the cult play from Berlin became the scandal of the season for the very conservative Christian YMCA. They fired him from civilian service, but couldn't stop him.
- During his 3-year acting studies at the Hamburg Stage School of Music and Dramatic Arts from 1987 to 1990 he also trained as a news anchor at the well-known television station NDR.
- He worked for the famous Label EUROPA with the Director Heikedine Körting in more than 30 radio play series and also as an off-screen narrator for documentaries, audio books and in later years also as a dubbing-actor.
- He features many TVCs and spots for leading brands such as Mercedes, Nivea, L'oréal, to name a few. As well as campaigns for Claudia Schiffer, Macy Gray, Roger Hodgson, Lara Fabian and others.
- When he got the role of Samson (1989-1991) in the Sesame Street production, he was ordered to New York to study with Kermit Love, the famous creator and director from the Children's Television Workshop and from the Muppet Show.
- He played the role of Samson in the Sesame Street production in more than 120 episodes (1989-1991).
- He was the Architect Peter Tauschitz in season 3 in the well-known series "A Castle on Lake Wörth" in Austria (1992-1993) with guest stars Larry Hagman, Linda Gray, Telly Savalas, Harald Juhnke, Helmut Fischer and Hildegard Knef. Internationally, the series was sold to over 40 countries under the title "Lakeside Hotel".
- In 1993 he got the leading role of Detective Superintendent Mike Eschenbach in the famous series In the Name of the Law (1994-1996) in Berlin. A great success and he loved this character, but like most young actors, he wanted to play a wide variety of roles. So, after 2 years he left this safe and successful series.
- For his role as Detective Superintendent Mike Eschenbach in the series In the Name of the Law (1994-1996) in Berlin, he trained with real police officers at their training school. Arrest, defense and combat, use of weapons and real-life interrogation situations. He loves perfection in his roles.
- His first role as a murderer was as an Arab hitman in the television series "Die Männer vom K3" in the episode "Volle Deckung, Kopf runter" (1989). For this extremely brutal role as a killer, the young actor was too handsome for the director and so he got a scar several centimeters long on his face and a large mustache from the make-up team. For 8 days of Shooting he was absolutely unrecognizable.
- He played the role of the criminal Mike Talman almost 100 times en Suite in "Wait until dark" (1996-1997) at the legendary "Theater im Zimmer" of the famous theater director Gerda Gmelin in Hamburg.
- He never wanted to be pigeonholed in his roles, so he chooses a lot of completely different characters for his career.
- Over the course of his career, his type casting has evolved more and more into a criminal and mafia-like type at first glance.
- He has a penchant for evil, broken characters who often hide behind the mask of supposed goodness. So one of his dream roles is that of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
- From 2008 he works as an actor in several international films and series in Spain, including the multi-part film EL Bloke - Coslada Cero (2008), a thriller about the underworld of Madrid. In Coslada Cero, he played the pimp and brothel owner Francisc Giurka. In the series The Crack - El Crac (2014) for TV3 Radovan, the fighting machine. In Backseat Fighter (2016), the unscrupulous American Senator Reyes, who is responsible for drug and weapons deals. In addition, a Nazi doctor in the series El Internado (2009), a general and various officers, and thus remained true to his villain image abroad.
- He founded Mattabu-Production, an audio book publisher and production company, in 2001 only to produce "The Little People of Swabedoo - Four Magical Stories" because no other major publisher believed in its rapid commercial success. With tireless efforts, readings at book fairs and TV shows, the audio book was on Libri's top ten list of the best for months and was nominated for the Hörkules Prize of the German Book Trade in 2002.
- Since 2001, he has been donating 50 cents from every audio book "The Little People of Swabedoo - Four Magical Stories" (ISBN 3000081267) sold to the aid organization Aktion Mensch. In 2002, he personally handed over his first donation check for 2500,-- euros to the social organization in Bonn.
- For his professional development as an actor, the audio book "Johannes - Bestseller by Heinz Körner" ISBN 3000121455, which he produced in Hamburg in 2003 in his own publishing house Mattabu-Production, is of great importance for his career. It's about the magical journey to oneself, about the illusory world of lies and compromises. It's about the mystery of life.
- His productions "The Little People of Swabedoo - Four Magical Stories" ISBN 3000081267 (2001) and "Johannes - Bestseller by Heinz Körner" ISBN 3000121455 (2003) have been successful on the market for more than 20 years without interruption at Germany's largest bookstore chains such as Thalia, Hugendubel, Weltbild and Amazon.
- He also works as an actor in Spain as a coach specifically for the German language with Spanish and international actors and voice actors in various productions such as Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan 2023), World on Fire (Peter Bohker 2023), Bird Box (Alex & David Pastor 2022)" and others.
- Due to his great closeness and love for nature and spirituality, he always recharges his batteries and strength in order to be able to give everything as a good actor.
- One of his greatest adventure trips through nature is a multi-month tour of Latin America and a trip on a three-masted schooner through the Galapagos Archipelago, where he visited 10 islands on the roots of Charles Darwin. He lived on the old sailing ship and swam and dived with dolphins, sharks and sea lions.
- Since 2005 great spiritual development and several years of Reiki studies according to Dr. Mikao Usui. Initiations/degrees in 2013, 2014 and Reiki-Master-Initiation in 2015 by Reiki-Master/Teacher Karin Haida, recognized healer in the German Umbrella Organization Spiritual Healing in her Reiki & Energy Center in Cologne.
- In 1996, after filming as 1st officer on the "Dream Ship", he explored the Hawaiian Islands and undertook one of his most unusual tours to the sparsely populated island of Molokai, following in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London. A donkey ride took him on difficult-to-pass paths through the mountains to the Kalaupapa peninsula, which was declared a quarantine station for lepers (Leprosorium) in 1866. There he met one of the last surviving lepers, who reported as a contemporary witness about the colony and about the self-sacrificing work of Father Damien until his own death from leprosy in 1889.
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