The Bleibtreustrasse, a street in Berlin, was originally named after Georg Bleibtreu who was a battle painter and a distant ancestor of Moritz.

The children series was written by Rainer Boldt, Monica Bleibtreu, and Hans Peter Korff.

Bleibtreu's career continued to grow as he got a role in Boldt's, I Had a Dream, and then in 1986 in, With My Hot Tears, a television series that he acted in with his mother.

[3] At the age of 21 and after 4 years of studying abroad, Bleibtreu continued his career by working at the Thalia Theater and the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Germany.

Bleibtreu took a role in The Little Innocent [de] (1994) as a gay bartender named Thorsten who lives in the Hamburg prostitute scene.

They seek to prove his father's innocence after he is convicted of killing a young man who resided in the red-light district in Hamburg.

He was also awarded the Silver Bear for Best Actor in 2006 for his role in Elementary Particles directed by Oskar Roehler.

He played a main role in the musical adaptation, "I've Never Been to New York", which was first shown in cinemas in Germany in October 2019.

He worked alongside a couple other famous actors and actresses such as Katharina Thalbach, Heike Makatsch, and Uwe Ochsenknecht in movies such as I've Never Been to New York and Love Your Neighbour.

Talk of the Town In July Moritz Bleibtreu began his career in directing in 2019 with his film Cortex which released in theaters on 22 October 2020.

[13] Not only did Bleibtreu direct the film, but he also played the lead role of a security officer named Hagen.

[14] German film critic, Christopher Diekhaus, said in a review that "Bleibtreu finds his own way to challenge and captivate the audience".

[15] He also says it "creates an abysmal pull and makes you want to watch it several times to better understand the dance between dream and reality".