Heinz Strunk, legal name Mathias Halfpape (born 17 May 1962) is a German novelist, humorist musician, actor and member of Hamburg-based comedy trio Studio Braun.

Performing in the pop duo Dis Noir under his real name Mathias Halfpape, he released the album Paradise is Far Away in 1989, produced by Dirk Steffens.

In 2003 Studio Braun released the song Komputerfreak, which takes a serious look at the washed-up lives and addictive/compulsive personalities of those who spend large amounts of time using computers.

In 2004 Strunk’s comic novel Fleisch ist mein Gemüse (Meat is my vegetable) was published, based on his own youth as a musician in various small-time bands in the 1980s.

[citation needed] German director Fatih Akin acquired the film rights to make a movie based on Der goldene Handschuh.