Michael Maien

Acting

Michael Maien

Born 1947-10-12 · Nürnberg, Germany

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.

Acting credits

Mark of the Devil poster
6.1

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

Four Times That Night poster
5.3

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

Women Without Innocence poster
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 poster
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

Sexual Partnership poster
4.3

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

Sexual Partnership

1968

Eye in the Labyrinth poster
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

Hotel Royal poster
8.3

No synopsis available yet.

Hotel Royal

1969

Swap Meet at the Love Shack poster
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

Sex After Six poster
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

Take Off Your Clothes, Doll poster
4.3

Tragedies and romances in the nightclub "Moulin Rouge".

Take Off Your Clothes, Doll

1968

Unterm Röckchen stösst das Böckchen poster
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

Once a Greek poster
7.0

An extravagant comedy with Heinz Rühmann.

Once a Greek

1966

The General's Nephews poster
10.0

A retired general living on Sylt has his two nephews on leave from military service to help lure young girls into his house.

The General's Nephews

1969

Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand poster
7.0

Two young Italian guest workers in Germany find a beautiful dead woman one morning on the way to their job. The Kripo quickly determines that the dark-haired, young woman is the well-known sexworker Elena Rossano. The short, brutal and intense life of the girl is rolled presented in flashbacks.

Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand

1967

The Blood of the Walsungs poster
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

48 Hours to Acapulco poster
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

No artwork available
10.0

Lilli, the attractive niece of a general, disguises herself as a man in order to sneak into a German army barracks for research purposes. However, it is only a matter of time before her cover is blown.

Lilli - die Braut der Kompanie

1972

Porno Baby poster
5.6

A woman undergoes psychological evaluation for her sexual desires.

Porno Baby

1970

No artwork available
6.3

The women of a Swiss community finally want to achieve equal rights. At the top of the uproar is the midwife Spyri, who does not want to be married by the head of the district, Stirnimann. They succeed in abducting the head of the community and using his former lover in his place.

Immer die verflixten Weiber

1970

The Sensual Male poster
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

No artwork available
9.0

The plot is similar to the first part. The nieces and their aunt again get some men into bed.

Die Nichten der Frau Oberst 2. Teil - Mein Bett ist meine Burg

1969

Ritter Orgas muß mal wieder poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ritter Orgas muß mal wieder

1970

Guess Who's Coming for Breakfast poster
4.8

Young widow Madame Yanne takes care of her pretty nieces Florentine and Juliet, who are currently living out their lesbian obsessions and are currently more engaged with each other than turning their heads around the lusty male world.

Guess Who's Coming for Breakfast

1968