né
A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth reg ...
''Matthias Joachim Schulz''; born 28 August 1984) is a German film producer. He is known for shows such as Neo Magazin and
How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)
''How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)'' is a German coming-of-age dark humor crime streaming television series co-created by Philipp Käßbohrer and Matthias Murmann. The first season, consisting of six episodes, was released on 31 May 2019, on Ne ...
Deutscher Fernsehpreis
The Deutscher Fernsehpreis (''German Television Award'') is an annual German award for television programming, created in 1999 by German television channels Das Erste, ZDF, RTL and Sat.1. It was created to be an equivalent to the Emmy Awards, t ...
.
Education
After an audio-visual media designer apprenticeship, Murmann studied Film and Television at Academy of Media Arts Cologne. From 2008 until 2012, Murmann produced several short films, adverts, and music videos. His 2010 film Armadingen (co-produced with
Philipp Käßbohrer
Philip Georg Käßbohrer (), born 30 October 1983, is a German film producer and director. He is the founder of German film production company ''bildundtonfabrik'' and known for creating the shows Neo Magazin and How to Sell Drugs Online (Fa ...
) was awarded several short-film festival prizes. Murmann's and Käßbohrer's first feature film ''Das Problem des Schnellstfluges'' was released in 2016.
Career
Following ''Armadingen'', Matthias Murmann and Philipp Käßbohrer began working on a concept for a
late-night talk show
A late-night talk show is a genre of talk show popular in the United States, where the format originated. It is generally structured around humorous monologues about the day's news, guest interviews, comedy sketches and music performances. It i ...
featuring
Jan Böhmermann
Jan Böhmermann () (born 23 February 1981) is a German satirist, journalist, and podcast and television host. He also worked as a writer, producer, radio host, and is best known for his activism through publicity stunts.
Early life and educati ...
and
Charlotte Roche
Charlotte Elisabeth Grace Roche (born 18 March 1978) is a British-German television presenter, author, producer, and actress.ZDFkultur, was met with generally favourable reviews, and received a nomination for the 2012 Grimme-Preis. Eventually, Käßbohrer and Murmann were awarded the 2012 Deutscher Fernsehpreis's ''Förderpreis'', and founded the
film production
Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, casti ...
company ''bildundtonfabrik''.
In 2013, Murmann and Käßbohrer created the late-night talk show Neo Magazin that aired on ZDFneo and later on
ZDF
ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...
. Later that year, Murmann was the executive producer of the WDR show ''Kebekus!'' hosted by Carolin Kebekus.
Throughout the following years, Murmann was the executive producer of the WDR comedy show ''Die unwahrscheinlichsten Ereignisse im Leben von ...'', and the infotainment show ''Mr. Dicks - Das erste wirklich subjektive Gesellschaftsmagazin'' that aired on
1Live
1LIVE is a radio station operated by the Westdeutscher Rundfunk public broadcasting corporation in Germany. It specialises in popular music aimed at the 14–39 age demographic, the average age of its listeners is 34.
History
On 1 April 1995 ...
and
EinsFestival
''One'' (stylized as ''one'') is a German free-to-air television channel owned and operated by the German public-broadcasting consortium ARD. Managed since October 2005 by Westdeutscher Rundfunk on behalf of ARD as a whole, the channel was orig ...
. Since 2017, Murmann has been producing the comedy show ''Kroymann'', aired on ARD. The show is hosted by
Maren Kroymann
Maren Kroymann (; born 19 July 1949) is a German actress, comedian and singer.
Career
Kroymann was born in Walsrode. She studied English, Roman studies, and American studies at University of Tübingen. After spending time in Paris and the U ...
, who satirically discusses social topics and problems. In 2018, Murmann co-created WDR's online platform ''docupy'', which includes documentary films on sociopolitical topics, directed by him.
Since 2018, Murmann has been the
showrunner
A showrunner (or colloquially a helmer) is the top-level executive producer of a television series production who has creative and management authority through combining the responsibilities of employer and, in comedy or dramas, typically also th ...
of the Netflix series
How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)
''How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)'' is a German coming-of-age dark humor crime streaming television series co-created by Philipp Käßbohrer and Matthias Murmann. The first season, consisting of six episodes, was released on 31 May 2019, on Ne ...
. The first season aired in 2019; season two and three followed in 2020 and 2021 respectively.
In 2021, Murmann co-produced the documentary film ''Shiny Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord'' about Maximilian Schmidt. Schmidt inspired Käßbohrer to write his ''How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)''. Murmann and Käßbohrer will be the executive producers of Netflix's ''King of Stonks'' that is said to air in 2022.
Filmography
* 2010: ''Armadingen'' (producer)
* 2013: ''Kebekus!'' (producer)
* 2013 - 2019: ''Neo Magazin Royale'' (screenwriter, producer)
* 2016 - 2017: ''Schulz & Böhmermann'' (producer)
* 2017 - 2018: ''Kroymann'' (producer)
* 2018: ''Lass dich überwachen! Die Prism is a Dancer Show'' (producer)
* 2018: ''Get Well Soon - The Horror'' (online series) (producer)
* 2019: ''How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)'' (executive Producer, creator)
* 2020: ''Die Carolin Kebekus Show'' (producer)
* 2020: ''Drinnen - Im Internet sind alle gleich'' (online series) (producer)
* 2021: ''Shiny Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord'' (producer)
* 2021: ''King of Stonks'' (executive Producer, creator)