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Julius Nitschkoff was born in Berlin in 1995. He already took acting lesson as a teenager and made his screen debut in the TV comedy "Der Typ, 13 Kinder & Ich" (2009). After receiving very positive reviews for his performance in an episode of the TV show "Krimi.de", Nitschkoff played a supporting role in "Die Kinder von Blankenese", a real-life inspired drama about twenty young Holocaust survivors waiting to ship out of Germany to Palestine after the end of WWII.
Nitschkoff played a traumatized student in the acclaimed TV movie "Die Lehrerin" (2011), before Achim von Borries' "Vier Tage im Mai" ("4 Days in May", 2011) marked his first appearance in a theatrical release. Following several guest-starring roles on TV shows, he had memorable leading turns in the prolific TV productions "Komasaufen" (2013) and "Kein Entkommen" (2014).
Director Andreas Dresen cast Julius Nitschkoff as one of the leads in the highly anticipated coming-of age drama "Als wir träumten" ("As We Were Dreaming", 2015), which premiered in the competition of the 2015 Berlin IFF. Around the same time, he also starred in the two-part TV movie "Tod eines Mädchens" (2015). Nitschkoff went on to appear in the TV thriller "Die siebte Stunde" (2016, TV) and Aelrun Goette's "Im Zweifel" (2016, TV), before returning to the big screen with the romantic drama "Die Geschwister" ("Brother and Sister", 2016), in which he plays a mysterious young man who together with his sister shakes up the life of a Berlin real estate agent.
After that, Julius Nitschkoff again took part in a number of TV productions. Among others, he had a leading role in the crime thriller "Marie Brand und die rastlosen Seelen" (2016) and, together with Emma Drogunova, he played a young Polish-German couple on the run from the police in "Wolfsland - Ewig Dein" (2016). In the series "Der Lehrer" (2017), Nitschkoff played a problem student who turns out to be a mathematics genius. In the highly acclaimed series "Parfum" ("Perfume", 2018), he portrayed the main character Butsche at a young age. In 2020, he played central roles in two crime thrillers from the "Tatort" series: as a Bundeswehr soldier and son of a traumatized father in "Krieg im Kopf" and as a crime suspect vying for his father's favor in "Der letzte Schrey".
On the big screen, Nitschkoff was seen with Farba Dieng in a leading role in the comedy "Toubab," about a small time crook with an immigrant background who wants to marry his best friend to avoid deportation. At the Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2021, Nitschkoff and Dieng received the award for Best Acting Performance; at the Bavarian Film Award, the two were awarded in the Young Actor category, and at the German Acting Award as Best Duo.
After supporting roles in Kida Khodr Ramadan's "In Berlin wächst kein Orangenbaum" and another appearance in the "Tatort" series, this time in "Der Herr des Waldes", Nitschkoff appeared once again in a leading role in a feature film": in the love triangle story "Bulldog" (2021) he played a 21-year-old who is bound by an unconditional love with his mother, who is 15 years older than him. For his portrayal he received the award for Best Leading Actor in a Feature Film at the 2022 Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival and the Silver Beaver at the Biberach Film Festival. The German theatrical release of "Bulldog" was in February 2023.
Mostly, however, Nitschkoff continued to appear in numerous television dramas and series. Among others, he had a leading role in the miniseries "Gestern waren wir noch Kinder" (broadcast in January 2023) as a policeman who tries to support a teenager after the death of her mother.