Biography:

Madeleine Lierck-Wien was born in 1949 in Kempten, West Germany, and her family moved to East Germany in 1953. Throughout her career she has performed in both movies and television productions. She performed for the first time in the television production Irrlicht und Feuer, before studying acting at the Konrad Wolf Academy for Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg from 1966 to 1970. While a student she acted in Heisser Sommer, which became a cult film. Later she acted alongside her father, the actor and cabaret artist Werner Lierck, in the comedy Nicht schummeln, Liebling! More recently, she appeared in Margarethe von Trotta’s Das Versprechen, an award-winning story about lovers separated by the Wall. Since 2011, she has been acting in the popular television series Rote Rosen.

Madeleine Lierck-Wien also has a distinguished career in theater. She has performed at the Meininger Theater and different cabarets in Berlin, Potsdam and Dresden. She has developed and presented evening-long entertainment programs, including an Erich Kästner evening and Da lacht der Mond (The Moon Laughs), a program written and directed by Lierck-Wien, in which she shared the stage with singer Eva-Maria Pieckert and ballet dancer Angela Reinhardt. Critics described this program as “funny, sexy and poetic!” Madeleine Lierck-Wien is married to actor Dieter Wien and lives in Lüneburg.

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