Heinz Lieven

Heinz Lieven (born April 18, 1928) is a German actor.

Lieven was born in Blankenese, Hamburg, where he was raised. In 1948, He began an actor's training with the actors Helmuth Gmelin and Bernhard Minetti. He married a makeup artist 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, where he played till 1978. Later the actor played at Berlin's Volksbühne. In 1978 he moved to Bremen, 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.

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 and played a former SS Officer named Aloise Lange in the 2011 movie This Must Be the Place.

Heinz Lieven lives in Hamburg.