Iwa Wanja (born Ivanka Nikolova Yanakieva; 10 October 1905 – 26 June 1991) was a Bulgarian actress based in Germany.

[1] She moved to Berlin to pursue her career, appearing in around thirty German films.

Married to Norbert Schultze, German composer, best remembered for having written the melody of the World War II classic Lili Marleen.

[2] Sometime around 1943, she wed German film composer Norbert Arnold Wilhelm Richard Shultze.

During their marriage, she penned the libretti for several of his compositions for the stage.