Heinz Lieven started his stage career as actor at the Theater im Zimmer in Hamburg.
[1] In 1971 the German director Boleslaw Barlog brought Heinz Lieven to the Schillertheater in Berlin, where he played till 1978.
Three years later, Heinz Lieven lived again in his hometown Hamburg and later in 1995 in his district Blankenese.
Furthermore, he presented readings with texts of German Writers and poets and travelled 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 a Lady and played a former SS Officer named Aloise Lange in the 2011 movie This Must Be the Place.