Julius Feldmeier, born in 1987, studied acting at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre from 2008 to 2012. He received a Studio Hamburg young talent scholarship and was given a guest engagement at Hamburg's Thalia Theatre while still a student. After graduating, he went to the Schauspielhaus Graz as a permanent ensemble member in the 2012/2013 season, where he appeared in various plays by Yael Ronen. He played his first leading cinema role in the film Tore tanzt (director: Katrin Gebbe), which premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. For this role he was awarded Best Actor at the German Director's Award "Metropolis"; at the German Actor's Award he won the prize for Best Newcomer. Julius Feldmeier has since appeared in various television productions, as well as in Helene Hegemann's novel adaptation Axolotl Overkill (2016), the series Babylon Berlin (2017), Das Boot (2018) and others. Julius Feldmeier made his directorial debut together with his wife Katja Feldmeier. Their documentary 6Minuten66 premiered at the Berlinale 2019 in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section.
At the Maxim Gorki Theater he can be seen in the theatre film DARK ROOM revisited, which will premiere as part of Queer Week 2021
