Heinz Lieven is a German

Germany

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 actor

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Life and work

Heinz Lieven grew up in Blankenese. In 1948 He began an actor's training with the actors Helmuth Gmelin and Bernhard Minetti

Bernhard Minetti

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. He married a makeup artist

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 in 1966 and has two sons with her.

Heinz Lieven started his stage career as actor at the Theater im Zimmer in Hamburg. After this engagement he went with diverse travelling theatres through Germany. In the 1960s he played as actor in several television productions.

In 1971 the German director Boleslaw Barlog brought Heinz Lieven to the Schillertheater in Berlin

Berlin

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, where he played till 1978. Later the actor played at Berlin's Volksbühne

Volksbühne

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. In 1978 he moved to Bremen

Bremen

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, where he worked as theatre director. Three years later, Heinz Lieven lived again in his hometown Hamburg and later in 1995 in his district Blankenese. During this time he played at several theatres like the Hamburger Kammerspiele and Altonaer Theater in Hamburg or Theater Lübeck

Theater Lübeck

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Among his theater engagements Heinz Lieven frequently appeared in TV-films, -series and a few movies. Furthermore he presents readings with texts of German Writers and poets and rides as entertainer and acting coach on cruise liners like the MS Deutschland.

He made his international film debut in Aleksandar Petrovic's Group Portrait with Lady

Group Portrait with Lady (film)

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 and plays a former SS Officer named Aloise Lange in the upcoming movie This Must Be the Place

This Must Be the Place (film)

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Heinz Lieven lives in Hamburg.

Selected filmography

• 1963: Stalingrad (TV movie)
• 1966: Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti (TV movie)
• 1969: Das Rätsel von Piskov (TV movie)
• 1971: Hamburg Transit (TV series)
• 1972: Gefährliche Streiche (TV series)
• 1973: Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben (TV series)
• 1974: Ermittlungen gegen Unbekannt (TV movie)
• 1976: Ein Fall für Stein (TV series)
• 1976: Reifezeit (TV movie)
• 1977: Ein Mann kam im August (TV series)
• 1977: Group Portrait with Lady
  Group Portrait with Lady (film)
  Group Portrait with Lady is a 1977 German-French drama film directed by Aleksandar Petrović. It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival...
  
   (Gruppenbild mit Dame)
• 1978: Das kalte Herz (TV series)
• 1979: Die Buddenbrooks (TV miniseries)
• 1979: Ein Kapitel für sich (TV movie)
• 1980: Order
• 1982: Die Aufgabe des Dr. med. Graefe (TV movie)
• 1986: Engels & Consorten (TV series)
• 1986: Finkenwerder Geschichten (TV series)
• 1987: The Riddle of the Sands (Das Rätsel der Sandbank), (TV series)
• 1989: Der Landarzt (TV series)
• 1990: Wer zu spät kommt – Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution (TV movie)
• 1993: Schwarz-Rot-Gold (TV series)
• 1995: Eine Frau wird gejagt (TV movie)
• 1996: Freunde fürs Leben (TV series)
• 1997: Neues vom Süderhof (TV series, appearance in 13 episodes from 1996 to 1997)
• 1998: Dr. Monika Lindt - Kinderärztin, Geliebte, Mutter (TV series)
• 1999: Death Hunters: To Die For (Die Jagd nach dem Tod), (TV movie)
• 1999: Wut im Bauch (TV movie)
• 2000: Doppelter Einsatz (TV series)
• 2000: Großstadtrevier (Tv series, appearance in three episodes in different roles, 1986, 1991 and 2000)
• 2001: Tatort
  Tatort
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   (Tv series, appearance in three episodes in different roles, 1980, 1982 and 2001)
• 2002: Küstenwache (Tv series)
• 2005: Adelheid und ihre Mörder (TV series, appearance in 7 episodes from 1996 to 2005)
• 2007: LadyLand (Comedy series)
• 2008: Notruf Hafenkante (TV series, appearance in 3 episodes from 2007 to 2008)
• 2008: Das Papstattentat (TV movie)
• 2009: Lasko – Die Faust Gottes (TV series)
• 2009: Within the Whirlwind
• 2010: 2 für alle Fälle - Ein Song für den Mörder (TV movie)
• 2011: This Must Be the Place
  This Must Be the Place (film)
  This Must Be the Place is a 2011 drama film directed by Paolo Sorrentino, written by Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello. It stars Sean Penn and Frances McDormand...
  
  

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