Biography
Heiner Lauterbach was born on April 10, 1953 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor and director, known for Mes deux hommes (1985),L'expérience (2001) and Der Skorpion (1997). He has been married to Viktoria Lauterbach since September 8, 2001. They have two children. He was previously married to Katja Flint.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Ein Münchner im Himmel
2026
When cab driver Ludwig “Wiggerl” Brunner, a true Munich bon vivant, is hit by a streetcar and ends up in heaven, there is only one way back to his bel...

Ein fast perfekter Antrag
2026
as Walter
Grumpy widower Walter lives alone with his dog in Regensburg and spends his time writing restaurant reviews on the internet. But when he meets his old...

Nie mehr Vizekusen!
2024
as Self
Bayer Leverkusen, led by star coach Xabi Alonso, is crowned champion and looks back on an emotional journey. Special players and protagonists from tod...

Am Abgrund
2024
as Herbert Pfleiderer
Gerd Meineke is a committed member of the Bundestag and member of the Parliamentary Assembly in the Council of Europe. And he has a problem: Leyla, th...

Enkel für Fortgeschrittene
2023
as Gerhard

Dear Kurt
2022
as Gauger
Kurt (Til Schweiger) and Lena (Franziska Machens) move together into an old house outside the city that is in need of renovation in order to be closer...

Immenhof - Das große Versprechen
2022
as Malinckroth
When a poison attack is made on the racehorse Cagliostro, Lou flees the Immenhof with the horse. Together they find refuge with Cal, who lives away fr...

Hannes
2021
as Dr. Klaus
Born at the same place, on the same day, Hannes and Moritz grow up to be inseparable friends. But one day a tragic motorcycle accident will change the...

It's for Your Own Good
2020
as Artur
Three fathers who are also brothers-in-law make a pact to save their daughters from their boyfriends.

Meister des Todes 2
2020
as Alex Stengele
In court for violations of the Foreign Trade and Payments Act and the War Weapons Control Act, the managers of HSW try to wriggle out of the trial whi...

Granny Nanny
2020
as Gerhard
Retirees Karin, Gerhard and Philippa are not in the mood for Nordic walking and seniors' courses at the university. When Philippa, who is living life ...

Ihr letzter Wille kann mich mal!
2020
as Heinrich
Heinrich Gruber, a public prosecutor as he stands, and the travel journalist Tom Gruber have little in common in life. The two gentlemen in their 60s ...

Dream Factory
2019
as Beck
A romantic drama set in 1961 that follows a young studio extra's ambitious efforts to reunite with the French girl he loves after being separated by t...

The Collini Case
2019
as Richard Mattinger
A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.

Asi mit Niwoh
2019
as Self
He went on a bender with Motörhead’s Lemmy and spend some night in jail. He was a street musician, a working class hero, a thug, a fairy and most of a...

Immenhof - The Adventure of a Summer
2019
as Jochen Mallinckroth
After the death of their father three sisters, sixteen year old Lou, Charly who is in her early twenties and Emmie who is a mere child, have to try an...

Saat des Terrors
2018
as Nicholas Krüger
In the feature film "Seed of Terror", a German secret service agent during her assignment abroad in Pakistan recognizes that attacks on civilians in M...

Cold Feet
2018
as Raimund Groenert
Although he actually just wanted to steal money, the crook Denis finds himself in the position of caretaking for the stroke patient Raimund. When Raim...

Unzertrennlich nach Verona
2018
as Jan Biggemann
Single mother Ulla is constantly worried about the well-being and safety of her teenage daughter Julia. Her father is much more carefree and has even ...

Unter deutschen Betten
2017
as Friedrich
After a disastrous performance and a philandering producer leave her publicly humiliated, a faltering pop star takes up work as a cleaning woman.

Gift
2017
as Günther Kompalla
After some faked medicine is found, an Interpol agent searches for evidence against high rank chairmen of medical companies.

Spuren der Rache
2016
as Frank Henning
Frank Hennings loses his wife and daughter in a bomb attack in the middle of Berlin. In his grief, the retired civil servant focuses on just one goal:...

Spuren der Rache
2016
Producer
Frank Hennings loses his wife and daughter in a bomb attack in the middle of Berlin. In his grief, the retired civil servant focuses on just one goal:...

Welcome to Hartmanns
2016
as Dr. Richard Hartmann
The Hartmann family is turned upside down when mother Angelika decides to take in the refugee Diallo, against her husband's will. Amidst the typical c...

GOLD. Der Film der Nibelungen
2016
as Franz Koppoler, Bürgermeister

Frauen
2016
as K.O. Schott
K.O. Schott, a filthy rich industrialist, has an urgent appointment in Bad Honnersheim. Due to a mix-up, he is picked up by the wrong chauffeur, Rüdig...

Frauen
2016
Producer
K.O. Schott, a filthy rich industrialist, has an urgent appointment in Bad Honnersheim. Due to a mix-up, he is picked up by the wrong chauffeur, Rüdig...

Beste Feinde
2016
as Johannes Lemann
The quiet, level-headed, slightly pedantic delicatessen owner Johannes Lemann and the eternally vagabond, quick-tempered Bert Michilinski couldn't be ...

Das Programm
2016
as Victor Miro
A banker's family is to be included in a protection programme after the family father became involved in negligent transactions with a gangster. But h...

Weihnachts - Männer
2015
as Fritz
Fritz, Walter and Andi are caught red-handed in the event of a burglary. But are the three friends in Santa Claus costume really a wanted gang of crim...

V8 - Revenge of the Nitros
2015
as Rasmus V. Acht
The V8 team beat the Barracudas and came one step closer to getting to train at the legendary "Castle" where elite children learn racing skills, but R...

Die Udo Honig Story
2015
as Ludwig Moser
An insight view on the life of Udo Honig, successful football manager with a gambling addiction (similarities to a successful football manager in real...

Meister des Todes
2015
as Alex Stengele
Based on explosive investigations, the thriller "Meister des Todes" ("Master of Death") tells of a German arms manufacturer and their questionable wea...

Letzte Ausfahrt Sauerland
2015
as Horst Kierspe
"As a child, I always wished I had a fairy-tale uncle for a grandpa," says high school graduate Elyas, "but the truth is: my grandpa is a drunken old ...

Von einem, der auszog, das Fürchten zu lernen
2014
as König
Once Upon a Time there lived a brave man, Michael, who was unaware what fear is. At the same time, Princess Elisabeth lived with her father, the king...

Wir sind die Neuen
2014
as Eddi
Three old friends from college move back in together in an apartment in Munich for financial reasons.

Stalingrad
2013
as Khenze
A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process b...

Helden - Wenn Dein Land Dich braucht
2013
as Bundeskanzler
Scientists try to simulate the Big Bang and the experiment gets out of control. While satellites come down and chaos arises, the stories of several pe...

V8 - Start Your Engines
2013
as Rasmus V. Acht
Four very unequal children at the age of 6 until 11 are chosen to become the new soap box racing team to compete at the secret "Castle", where all the...

The Blind Spot
2013
as Dr. Hans Langemann
The true story of a journalist who investigates the backgrounds of the Oktoberfest terror attack of 1980.

Harms
2013
as Harms
After 16 years in jail is Harms attracted by the big bucks: a raid on the central bank, 70 to 100 millions in cash. A former staff member can arrange ...

Einfach die Wahrheit
2013
as Roman Giesecke
Prosecutor Charlotte Reinke investigates in a sensitive case: The eight-year-old Laura accuses her father novel of sexual abuse. This indignantly reje...

Ein schmaler Grat
2013
as Johannes Heintz
Psychothriller by facts. A lightly labile journalist (Felicitas Woll) wants to explore the motives of a women murderer (Heiner Lauterbach). When he wa...

Break Up Man
2013
as Georg Adler
BREAK UP MAN is an odd couple road movie and tells the story of Henri, who works for a break up agency in Berlin and on behalf of those who want to se...

The Guardians
2012
as Thomas Backer
15-year-old Nina witnesses a terrible crime that puts her life in danger. Being an orphan, she has nobody she can trust. When corrupt businessman Thom...

Vatertage - Opa über Nacht
2012
as Lambert
The 37-year-old Munich survivor and rickshaw driver Basti struck by lightning than one day unexpectedly the 17-year-old Dina from Bitterfeld turns up ...

Doppelgängerin
2012
as Wolter von Auenstedt
Wolter von Auenstedt is repeatedly deceived by his glamorous wife Hedwig.

Reality XL
2012
as Professor Carus
On 13 January 2011, 24 scientists on night shift enter the control room. On 14 January 2011 at 6.00 PM clock only 1 scientist exits the control room. ...

Top Mission - Im Netz des Todes
2012
as Heiner
Special agent Michael, who is not at a loss for martial arts skills, is personally commissioned by his boss to infiltrate a gangster syndicate suspect...

Mörderischer Besuch
2010
as Michael Ochajon

Ken Folletts Eisfieber
2010
as Stanley Oxenford
A deadly virus is stolen from the high-security laboratory of a biotechnology company. Although the thief can be found, lifeless and bleeding from the...

Rabbit Without Ears 2
2009
as Herb
Two years have passed. There is a normal life, but handsome Ludo meets his old love, and Anna is very jealous...
Die Seele eines Mörders
2009
as Michael Ochajon

Volcano
2009
as Gerhardt Maug
When a dormant volcano suddenly erupts into activity beneath Laach Lake in the Eiffel mountains, panic breaks out among the 500.000 residents.

The Papal Council
2008
as Rami Hamdan
An assassination attempt on the highest dignitary of the Catholic Church? According to providence, this is exactly what is supposed to happen on a cer...

M/S Gustloff
2008
as Harald Kehding
Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end o...

Das Glück am anderen Ende der Welt
2007
as Wolf Holländer
A woman travels to New Zealand for the purpose of visiting his daughter. Give the fact that your company is interested in buying the farm where the gi...

Die Entführung
2007
as Robert Lund
On his birthday, Tobias goes shopping to the city with his mother. While waiting in the car for her to remove money from an ATM, he disappears without...
Andersrum
2005
as Toni Kowitz
Ferdinand was abandoned as an infant by his parents in the forest. There he was found by a homosexual couple. Ludwig (called "Laila") and Harry adopte...
Andersrum
2005
Director, Producer
Ferdinand was abandoned as an infant by his parents in the forest. There he was found by a homosexual couple. Ludwig (called "Laila") and Harry adopte...

In Liebe eine Eins
2005
as Manfred Zörnig
Flower seller Leni Bluhm is kind-hearted, but illiterate and not very bright. That's why the single mother can't help her son Dominik at school. His t...
Der Bernsteinfischer
2005
as Jacob Thiele / Tom Reuter
With "Der Bernsteinfischer" director Olaf Kreinsen has staged a moving love story. Romantic, but not kitschy, the film tells the story of a man who, t...

Zwei Männer und ein Baby
2004
as Max Stein
The notoriously single and not-so-successful womanizer Max has settled down perfectly into his bachelor life when suddenly the enchanting Lisa, sister...

Ein seltsames Paar
2004
as Oskar
Im Namen des Herrn
2003
as Pater Verimund
Treibjagd
2003
as Walter Stein
The love of his life, Svetlana, chose suicide twelve years ago. At that time, Stein resigned from the Federal Intelligence Service. Since then, the ex...

In der Mitte eines Lebens
2003
as Andreas Ambach
Set in the present day, the story is full of dramatic twists and emotions, and the hero of the story is the talented composer Andreas Ambach, who is w...

In Search of an Impotent Man
2003
as Stefan
Carmen Legg, a tall sporty red-head, is fed up with men and their one-track minds. She is thirty something, drives her own BMW, lives in her own apart...

Eine Liebe in Afrika
2003
as Jo, Bischof von Uzimvubu
Stefan is a well respected doctor. Together with his fiancée Miriam, he visits his father in South Africa on the occasion of his birthday. Miriam meet...
Tödliches Rendezvous - Die Spur führt nach Palma
2002
as Mike Hansen
Star photographer Mike Hansen doesn't just want to shoot glamour photos. On Mallorca, he thinks he's on the trail of a criminal gang who is selling gi...

666: In Bed with the Devil
2002
as Heiner Lauterbach
Frank Faust is a born loser. At some point it even becomes too much for his great love, Jennifer, who leaves him and flees to Munich. Frank's desperat...

Der Verleger
2001
as Der Verleger
"The Publisher" is about the success story of a visionary man who begins after 1945 with a rickety car and a stack of novels. With his charismatic per...

The Experiment
2001
as Dennis (voice)
20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in a...

Nicht heulen, Husky
2000
as Oliver

Marlene
2000
as Erich Pommer
Marlene is a 2000 German biopic film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier and starring Katja Flint, Hans Werner Meyer and Herbert Knaup. It follows the life o...

Zwei Asse und ein König
2000
as Jan de Fries

Enlightenment Guaranteed
2000
as Heiner
Two middle aged German brothers - one New Age and recently divorced, the other uptight and sceptical - travel to a Zen monastery in Japan in search of...

Paradise Mall
1999
as Mark Popp

St. Pauli Nacht
1999
as Taxi-Fahrgast
Sometimes your fate lies in the hands of those you meet. Filled with promising ambitions, shattered dreams, love and revenge and in the end hope, the ...

The Polar Bear
1998
as Gesundheitsinspektor
Four characters become involved in one dramatic story: Nico has a mission to drive a car containing a live bomb to a specified destination, park the c...

Eine Sünde zuviel
1998
as Bert Feltoff

Cascadeur
1998
as Oberst
An action-adventure search for a priceless cultural treasure stolen by Russia from the Nazis during World War II.
Der dreckige Tod
1998
as Oskar Kunze

Opera ball
1998
as Kurt Frazer
The Vienna State Opera on Thursday before the Carnival. As every year the large ball rather is attended by celebrities from politics and the media. Ju...

Der Campus
1998
as Hanno Hackmann
A married university professor ends his explosive affair with a female student who then accuses him of sexual harassment. A satire with plenty of situ...
Tödliche Diamanten
1998
as Paul Schalla

The Scorpion
1997
as Josef Berthold
Josef Bertholt is head of operations of the Munich Police's drug squad. When his wife Lily is the victim of a hit by drug dealers, he becomes even mor...

Rossini
1997
as Oskar Reiter
Zigeuner is on the hunt for the woman of his dreams, a woman who should also play the main role in the film. Meanwhile, ruthless producer Oskar Reiter...

A Girl Called Rosemarie
1996
as Konrad Hartog
Katja Flint, Hannelore Elsner and Heiner Lauterbach star in this German film about a woman who climbs the social ladder by sleeping with those she enc...

The Superwife
1996
as Viktor Lange
Franziska is a romantically inclined housewife with two children and a husband who spends most of his time traveling around the world and working as a...
Das Wunschkind
1995
as Georg Bogendorff
Ignaz Semmelweis - Arzt der Frauen
1994
as Semmelweis

Charlie & Louise - Das doppelte Lottchen
1994
as Wolf Palfy
The two twelve-year-old girls Charlotte Palfy and Louise Kröger meet on a language trip to Scotland and discover that they are twins who were separate...
Nicht nur der Liebe wegen
1994

Ebbies Bluff
1993
as Ebbie
Rudy actually wanted to become one of the greats as a boxer - but when he gets knocked out again and the money is so tight that he has to drive out eg...
African Timber
1989
as Peter Bechtle
Peter Bechtle is a man in his mid-thirties. He is a manager of a large company and wants to try a project in Africa. The work will be led by the indus...
Bangkok Story
1989
as Michael Brandau
Umwege nach Venedig
1989
as Jochen Ammer

Bodo - Eine ganz normale Familie
1989
as Nova
A brainy kid clones a "suaver, hipper" version of himself to romance the rock singer girlfriend of his school's meanest bully.

Liebe, Tod und Eisenbahn
1989
as Raimund
A horror comedy directed by Gert Steinheimer.

Paradise
1986
as Viktor
Viktor and Angelika are a straight couple. He is a professor of veterinary science and she has studied art history. Both are more interested in their ...
Die Andere
1986
as Walter Scheidt

Men...
1985
as Julius Armbrust
A successful, womanizing middle-aged man decides to move out of the house he shares with his wife after she confesses to having an affair. He looks fo...

Kolp
1985
as Karl
Set in the fast and loose ambience of 1947 in West Germany, this story is about Hans Kolp, an inventive, teenage urban con artist who takes advantage ...
Eine Frau für gewisse Stunden
1985
as Schmal
Liza Hofer is a luxury prostitute and drug addict who works at the nightclub of William Ackermann. One day, Liza walking her friend's dog, meets a stu...

Inside the Third Reich
1982
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon...
Wochenendgeschichten
1980

Naughty Freshmen
1977
as Achim (uncredited)
This is the 11th of "Schulmädchen" movies and core issues this time is protection of young people and helping them in dangerous or critical situations...

Campus Teasers
1976
Seven more first-hand accounts of sexual awakening amongst school girls in the early Seventies.

Varsity Playthings
1975
as Paul Bellmann
Schoolgirls before high school graduation - By law they are of age, but despite their physical maturity, both innocent and experienced young women can...
Hagen Benz - Das Böse in dir
N/A
as Hagen Benz