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Michael Maien

Michael Maien

Acting

Biography

Michael Maien (born October 12, 1945, in Nuremberg, Germany) is a German actor, pop singer, screenwriter, and author. Trained at Munich’s Otto Falckenberg School, he made his film debut in 1965 with the controversial drama Wälsungenblut, earning the Bambi Award for Best Newcomer. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Maien became a prominent screen presence in popular cinema, appearing in educational films by Oswalt Kolle, crime films, sex comedies, and international genre productions. At the same time, he pursued a Schlager music career with several singles and frequent television appearances. From the late 1970s onward, he shifted his focus to television, theatre, and writing. Since the 1990s, Maien has worked primarily as a freelance writer, publishing novels and cultural essays while living in Düsseldorf.

Known For

Derrick
6.1

Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.

Derrick

1974
The Old Fox
6.3

A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.

The Old Fox

1977
Bambi
9.0

The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.

Bambi

1948
The Commissioner
8.0

Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.

The Commissioner

1969
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4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet

1966
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Unsere kleine Show - Musik zur blauen Stunde

1969
Mark of the Devil
6.2

In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.

Mark of the Devil

1970
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Soeben eingetroffen

1965
Swap Meet at the Love Shack
4.0

When you're as pretty as Iris, choose an analysis of the love market as your doctoral thesis and also want to gain practical experience, you have to expect to get involved in delicate and not always entirely safe, but at least amusing situations. And since Iris can't manage all these love adventures alone, she enlists her circle of friends to help her with her research...

Swap Meet at the Love Shack

1973
Women Without Innocence
4.4

Margarita is found, naked and bloody in a luxurious house and is promptly taken to a mental institute. The doctors and nurses meant to take care of her aren't exactly who they seem and a mysterious figure, clad in black, circles the premise at night, offing nubile young women.

Women Without Innocence

1978
2069: A Sex Odyssey
4.0

Five vixens from Venus are sent to Earth to bring back sperm samples to their planet, which is dying out because there are no men left on it. After they land, they find that it's not all that difficult persuading Earthmen to help them in their quest.

2069: A Sex Odyssey

1974
Four Times That Night
5.4

A night of attempted seduction is recalled from the perspectives of the woman, the man, a lecherous doorman and a psychoanalyst.

Four Times That Night

1971
Sex After Six
3.8

The members of a wedding party play a game whereby each describes the events of their own wedding night.

Sex After Six

1972
Eye in the Labyrinth
5.7

Julie is disturbed by the disappearance of her psychiatrist boyfriend Luca following a bizarre dream where she witnessed him murdered. She travels to a seaside village where he might be and encounters Frank, who tells her Luca has indeed been there. Julie's investigation leads her to the house of Gerta, where the mystery deepens among the odd characters residing at this artists enclave.

Eye in the Labyrinth

1972
The Sensual Male
3.8

(Pseudo) documentary film about sexual life in the late sixties and early seventies, from the series of Oswalt Kolle's sex education films that caused scandals in the late sixties and early seventies.

The Sensual Male

1970
Sexual Partnership
4.3

This is a continuation of the sex education films by Oswald Kolle. This time the sexual partnership is discussed.

Sexual Partnership

1968
The Blood of the Walsungs
8.0

The siblings Sieglinde and Siegmund von Arnstatt are inseparable. Their arrogant manner is particularly felt by Sieglinde's fiancé, Lieutenant Justus von Beckerath. Siegmund jealously watches over his sister, with whom he falls into a frenzy of emotion during a performance of Richard Wagner's opera "Die Walküre." Beckerath realizes that he will never be able to break into the incestuous intimacy of the twins. Finally, Siegmund and Sieglinde give themselves over completely to their sensual intoxication...

The Blood of the Walsungs

1965
Take Off Your Clothes, Doll
4.3

Tragedies and romances in the nightclub "Moulin Rouge".

Take Off Your Clothes, Doll

1968
Unterm Röckchen stösst das Böckchen
4.0

When a young mannequin manufacturer finds that he is no longer capable of making love, his wife hires a young mistress.

Unterm Röckchen stösst das Böckchen

1974
48 Hours to Acapulco
5.6

A young man gets caught up in criminal activities in order to fulfill his desire for an easy life.

48 Hours to Acapulco

1967