He studied acting with Willy Reichert made his stage debut at the Staatstheater Stuttgart at the age of 19.
[1] After World War II, Schieske first went to Cologne, then to Berlin in 1947, where he had an engagement at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, working there until 1950.
Among the stage roles played by Schieske were Milota in König Ottokars Glück und Ende, Klesel in Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg, Oberst Henry in Wilhelm Herzog's play about the Dreyfus Affair and Phil Cook in The Country Girl by Clifford Odets.
In 1961, in one of his most successful roles, he began playing Alfred P. Doolittle (Eliza's father) in the musical My Fair Lady, first in Berlin, then Hamburg.
[1] In the 1960s, he acted on television in adaptations of literary works, such as Wer einmal aus dem Blechnapf frißt, based on Hans Fallada's novel Once a Jailbird, and Jeder stirbt für sich allein with Edith Schultze-Westrum and Anneli Granget, based on Fallada's Every Man Dies Alone.