Michael Maien

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I can't see girls cry
  DE 30th 04/01/1966 (4 weeks)

Michael Maien (born October 12, 1945 in Nuremberg ) is a German actor , pop singer , screenwriter and writer .

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Maien was familiar with artistic creation from an early age through his parents, his mother was a pianist, his father a painter and graphic artist. Both his brother and sister and he himself have taken up artistic professions. After completing secondary school at a Munich high school, he attended the Otto Falckenberg School . He earned his living as a cable carrier for his acting lessons .

After graduating, his career began in 1965 with Wälsungenblut under the direction of Rolf Thiele . He took on the male lead Sigmund in the film based on the story of the same name by Thomas Mann . The subject of the film is incestuous love. The film was shown at the Berlinale , caused a scandal because of its subject matter and was only released for viewers aged 18 and over. In May 1965, Maien was awarded the Bambi Media Prize for his first role , in the “Best German Young Actor” category.

Parallel to film work, he began a hit career in 1966 and appeared in various television programs such as Musik aus Studio B and Die Drehscheibe with hits like I can't see a girl crying . Numerous reports about him appeared in the youth magazine BRAVO . Other singles followed ( I turn all the lights on ; no , again and again ), all of which were recorded in the legendary recording studio of the Hotel Esplanade in Berlin . I can't see any girls crying was his only chart success. Since the German music productions fell into crisis because of the Anglo-American music invasion, and the cinema began its downward slide, Maien made his first television films and the comedy Greek seeks Greek woman alongside Heinz Rühmann, also made by Thiele .

Maien took on his next attention-grabbing leading role in 1968 in the educational film Das Wunder der Liebe II, based on a script by Oswalt Kolle , in which he played the main male character of "Michael" alongside Petra Perry; the hugely successful film increased Maien's popularity and received the Golden Screen . He made another film in this genre in 1970 with the Kolle film Your Man, the Unknown Being . At the same time, Maien took on numerous roles in sex comedies in the style of the time with film titles like Knight Orgas Must Again or Under the Skirt the Goat Bumps . In 1970 he also played alongside Curd Jürgens and Brigitte Mira in the crime film Das Stundenhotel von St. Pauli (director: Rolf Olsen ). He had guest appearances in the ZDF crime series Der Kommissar (episodes: The knife in the safe , 1969, as Juri Brandic, the younger brother of the stateless bar owner Mirko Brandic, at the side of Lukas Ammann ; Domanns Mörder , 1974). In 1972 he took on the male lead in Wedding Night Report (Director: Hubert Frank , Production : Artur Brauner ) alongside Ingrid Steeger .

In addition, Maien continued to work for television and also took on roles from abroad. A film with his participation, the German- British Exploitation - Horror witches to the death tormented (also Mark of the Devil ) was in Germany until 2017 on the index and is regarded by connoisseurs of the genre, especially in the United States as a cult film . Then he turned u. a. in Italy In the glow of noon (1970) ( La salamandra del deserto ) and L'occhio nel labirinto (1972). When the cinema died out in the mid-1970s, Maien switched to the theater and television as an actor: between 1977 and 1987 he appeared several times in episodes of the crime series Derrick and Der Alte . Then he also retired from the television business.

As early as the 1960s, Maien had tried to gain a foothold as a screenwriter , worked as a co-writer on scripts and created scripts for supporting films that were also released in theaters. Since the late 1970s Maien worked as a columnist and author for cultural magazines in his home town of Düsseldorf . He has been living as a freelance writer since 1996 and appears at readings primarily in the Düsseldorf area. In his key novel The sweet scent of parting , which takes place in the film environment of his active time, he lets stars such as Horst Buchholz , Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Rock Hudson , Curd Jürgens , Klaus Kinski , Sophia Loren and Romy Schneider appear.

Maien was married to Heidi Maien from 1969 to 1980; their son Markus was born out of the marriage. He has been married to Anny Maien since 1981. The couple lives in Düsseldorf.

Filmography (selection)

Discography

Singles

  • 1966: Throw the key out the window (Philips)
  • 1966: I turn on all the lights (Philips)
  • 1966: I can't see girls cry / Trust in me (Philips)
  • 1967: Again and again no / Far so far (Philips)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart tracking: DE . Retrieved February 24, 2019
  2. ↑ Interview with Maien on the occasion of his 70th birth gas on October 12, 2015.
  3. ↑ Michael Maien with Elena Nathanael in Wälsungenblut on cinema.de
  4. ^ Academic film club at the University of Freiburg on the scandal surrounding the film Wälsungenblut , accessed on July 11, 2010
  5. ↑ Record cover I can't see a girl cry
  6. ↑ Witches tormented to the point of blood - indexing canceled on schnittberichte.com, accessed on April 10, 2018
  7. ↑ Witches tormented to the brim on badmovies.de, accessed on April 10, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Maien, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, pop singer, screenwriter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg