Jan Josef Liefers

AKA:
4.5932

1964-08-08

Dresden, East Germany [now Germany]

Biography

Crew Roles

Love Your Enemies
Director
Love Your Enemies
Producer
Die Frauenversteher - Männer unter sich
Director
Jacks Baby
Director
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {140}

Rudi Wurlitzer

1997-02-20 7.715

Knockin' on Heaven's Door

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Dru ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Achim Delvental

2007-11-01 6.5

Bis zum Ellenbogen

Achim, a risk-taking young shipowner, and Willi, an inventive bon vivant, collide in the Swiss Alps. The accident alone reveals the rifts that lie between their worlds. Only Sven, the peace-loving ban ...
Genre :Comedy

Laurenz Wagner

2007-05-29 7.5

Suddenly Gina

Laurens works for the German Minister of Finance and is an extremely correct and conscientious person. He knows his way around numbers, but less so with women. One day he meets Gina, a single young wo ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, TV Movie

Faust

2002-02-21 4.9

666: In Bed with the Devil

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 desperation is the best reason for Mephisto to show up and ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy

Peter Homann

2008-09-25 6.974

The Baader Meinhof Complex

'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on the ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller

Hans Ewald

2006-10-08 7

Der Untergang der Pamir

The story of the German sail-training ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane. ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Bruno Reger

2003-11-09 5.8

Das Wunder von Lengede

The film is based on the events surrounding the Lengede mining accident in 1963. ...
Genre :Drama

Thomas Krömer

1998-05-20 4.833

Night Time

Thomas Krömer follows the traces of a brutal murder in werewolf-manner out of personal interest. After investigating for some time, the traces all point to one person: himself. Now, he has to find out ...
Genre :Horror, Thriller

Ruben Lentov

2011-12-09 6.471

Simon & the Oaks

Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted c ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

Rochus 'Rocco' Siwak

2010-02-02 4.2

Live Is Life

A greater-Vienna seniors' home is run like a prison by the stuck-up female executive and staff. Hippie-type rebel Rochus 'Rocco' Siwak incurs a community service to be spent there as orderly. Sympathi ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Jan Landers

2005-10-03 4

Die Nachrichten

Jan Landers made it: Grown up in East Berlin, he quickly made his career after the turnaround: from the weatherman of a local station to the newsreader in Hamburg. ...
Genre :

Baron Münchhausen

2012-12-25 5.2

Baron Münchhausen

In a small inn, the impoverished Baron von Münchhausen tries to keep his head above water with the help of his stories. ...
Genre :Adventure, Family, Comedy

Ulrikes Freund

1999-03-01 4.5

Die Mörderin

Genre :

Älterer Kornelius Holmer (voice)

2022-03-11 6.091

Love Your Enemies

GDR, January 1990. After his ouster and the fall of the wall, dictator Erich Honecker and his wife Margot find themselves virtually homeless. Only Protestant pastor Uwe Holmer and his family, who, lik ...
Genre :Drama, History, TV Movie

Guido Schamski

2012-10-10 6.2

Men Do what Men Can

Confirmed bachelor Paul falls for Iris, who’s unfortunately as good as married. Although his friends have women problems of their own, and all end up moving into Paul’s apartment, they concoct a darin ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Hans Mittelstädt

2011-11-22 3.5

Der Mann auf dem Baum

Divorced hotel employee Hans seems to have lost his son Moritz forever. His ex-wife Linda wants to emigrate to Denmark with him and her new boyfriend. Although he is a man, he no longer has any say in ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Albert Goldmann

2013-01-31 7

Nacht über Berlin

Berlin, 1932. The Weimar Republic is torn apart in the struggle between right- and left-wing extremists and Berlin is a powder keg. Nightclub singer Henny Dalgow get to know the Social Democratic cong ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Rochus 'Rocco' Siwak

2013-10-23 4

Live is Life 2

Follows "Live is Life" aka "Die Spätzünder". ...
Genre :TV Movie, Comedy

1986-02-07 0

Ernst Thälmann

This elaborate two-part television film features a section from the life of communist worker leader Ernst Thälmann. It begins with the bloody riots on May 1, 1929 in Berlin, in which police officers s ...
Genre :Drama, History

Bodo Kriegnitz

1997-01-23 6.2

Rossini

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 wants to buy the film rights at all costs - and h ...
Genre :Comedy

Male Teacher #2

1994-02-17 6

Charlie & Louise - Das doppelte Lottchen

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 separated shortly after birth. Charlotte, the daughter of ...
Genre :Family, Comedy

Marc Hohlmann

1998-11-26 5

Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller

Director Rufus Lindner is shooting his first film: " Die Vatikankiller". With audience favorite Kai Rabe in the leading role, success is guaranteed. But suddenly chaos descends on the film team: A sta ...
Genre :Comedy, Thriller, Crime

Clemens Wilmenrod

2009-11-25 1

Es liegt mir auf der Zunge

On February 20, 1953, the Nordwestdeutsche Rundfunk broadcast the first cooking show of German post-war television. Clemens Carl Hahn became the TV chef Clemens Wilmenrod. When the "request in ten min ...
Genre :Drama

Alexander von Humboldt

1989-09-07 4.3

The Ascent of Chimborazo

The life of Alexander von Humboldt up to his attempt to climb the Chimborazo in 1802. ...
Genre :History, Adventure, Drama

Thomas Löwe

2005-04-16 0

Ein Koala-Bär allein zu Haus

For Thomas, a top chef, cooking is a science. But his routine between pans and spices is interrupted when he meets Nick, a son he never imagined he would have. Hailing from Australia, Nick is going to ...
Genre :Family

Benny Edelmeister

2007-09-06 5.8

Max Minsky and Me

Nerdy Jewish Nelly Sue Edelmeister, daughter of a New York mother and Berlin musician in Berlin gets straight A's, except for gym. When she hears her dream prince, actual royal Edouard, a fellow astro ...
Genre :Comedy

Roger Leonhard

1998-05-05 0

Kidnapping Mom & Dad

Genre :Comedy

Siegfried von Malzahn

1997-11-12 0

Dein Tod ist die gerechte Strafe

Genre :Thriller

Konrad Nees

2009-09-28 0

Lilys Geheimnis

Lily wants to be run a brothel. But corrupt cops threaten her with violence. Lily needs help. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, TV Movie

Johnny

2000-03-31 6

Halt mich fest!

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Mr. Holle

1990-12-24 0

Weihnachten schneit's

A family movie directed by Renata Kaye. ...
Genre :Family

Serge

2014-12-25 7.316

Head Full of Honey

Before eleven years old Tilda's parents can put her beloved grandfather in an old people's home due to his progressing Alzheimer disease, she takes him on one last adventure that subliminally threaten ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Guido Schamski

2015-01-29 5.1

Men Have to Go through This

Paul is done with love - until he meets Lena. Now he has to convince her family on Mallorca of himself being the right one for their daughter. Lena's mother though would prefer Patrick by her side, a ...
Genre :Comedy

Max

1999-10-17 5

Jacks Baby

Genre :Comedy

Martin Remus

2002-05-21 7

Die Frauenversteher - Männer unter sich

Genre :Comedy

Guido

1997-04-21 1

Busenfreunde

Genre :Comedy

Alex Kaiser

1995-01-01 0

Ich, der Boss

Genre :Comedy

Lucky

1997-10-06 2

Die Chaos-Queen

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Leonard

1997-02-03 1

Vergewaltigt - Die Wahrheit und andere Lügen

A doctor is raped by two of her colleagues. In the trial, the tide initially turns against her when the video recording of the crime disappears and her turbulent love life is revealed. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie, Thriller

Sebastian Hartmann

2003-09-23 0

Ich liebe das Leben

Genre :Drama

Michael Späth

2006-01-01 4

The Decision

Genre :Drama

Prof. Weissinger

2015-04-02 5.536

Mara and the Firebringer

Mara Lorbeer, a fifteen year old girl, finds out that she has to save the world because the Norse god Loki is threatening to break free of his chains. ...
Genre :Fantasy

Karl-Friedrich Boerne

2017-11-19 7

Gott ist auch nur ein Mensch

Genre :

Mace

2015-07-16 5

Disaster

In the German gangster comedy, Jan Josef Liefers and Justus von Dohnányi play two petty criminals who are supposed to do a job on Mallorca, but who can't stand each other. ...
Genre :Comedy

David Bluhm

2000-11-19 0

Die Spur meiner Tochter

Genre :Thriller

Karl Friedrich Boerne

2015-11-08 0

Schwanensee

Genre :Crime

Karl-Friedrich Boerne

2019-03-17 0

Spieglein, Spieglein

Genre :Crime

Peter

2016-12-25 5.916

Four Against the Bank

After losing their respective nest eggs thanks to a bumbling bank employee, three men use him to plot a bold and batty heist to get their money back. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Klaus Jansen

2001-05-16 0

Todesstrafe - Ein Deutscher hinter Gittern

Genre :Drama

1991-03-20 0

Der Sturmgeselle Sokrates

Genre :Drama

Heinz Hellmich

2024-10-31 6.8

Old White Man

In order to finally get that long-awaited promotion, Heinz Hellmich, an old white man, has to show his "wokest" side at work. When he invites his superiors to a private dinner at his home, his family' ...
Genre :Comedy

Guido

1998-09-22 0

Busenfreunde 2 - Alles wird gut!

Genre :Comedy

Dr. Klaus Kosnitzer

2003-06-03 0

Der Aufstand

June 17, 1953 - the day on which workers in the former Soviet Union took a stand against their government for the first time to protest against excessive labor standards. The protests escalated into a ...
Genre :Drama

Obergefreiter / Kameramann

1991-04-03 7.3

Case For Decision Oe.

During the Greek summer in the war year of 1944, a German military unit sets up camp on the plateau of Thebes. Armed with a 16 mm camera, the captain of the unit, a former professor for classical Gree ...
Genre :Drama, War

Balthasar Thomas

2017-01-12 7.1

The Bloom of Yesterday

An almost romantic comedy on the edge: Holocaust researcher Toto is having a major life crisis. Just when things at home and work could not get worse, he unwantedly gets a new assistent assigned to hi ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, Comedy

Hannes Wenger

2017-07-06 5.378

Teenosaurus Rex

She was sweet, she was cute. But just before her 14th birthday, Daddy’s little princess mutates into a petulant pubescent nightmare. Journalist Hannes Wenger decides to take a time-out from work to gu ...
Genre :Comedy

Holzer

2017-01-09 5.5

Mörderische Stille

A corpse is found in the Bay of Wilhelmshaven. It soon becomes clear that the dead man was an officer in the Dutch KFOR troops in Kosovo. During his investigation, Chief Inspector Holzer meets sailing ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama, Crime

Rainer

2018-12-01 5.2

So viel Zeit

Five old friends have to prove themselves one last time. 30 years after the hopeful young band Bochums Steine have separated after a disastrous live performance, fatally ill Rainer tries to re-activat ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Wastl Kronach

2018-02-23 6.5

Gefangen: Der Fall K.

For a long time, wealth adviser Elke and car mechanic Wastl were happy together. Until Elke gets involved more and more in dubious financial transactions that bring her success down the line. When her ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Joachim Vernau

2016-01-04 6

Die 7. Stunde

Genre :Mystery, Crime, Thriller

Joachim Vernau

2012-01-09 0

Das Kindermädchen

Genre :Crime

Self

2025-03-22 0

Moinsen! Ich bin Axel Prahl

The actor and musician turns 65 on March 26, 2025. Time for a portrait. Axel Prahl is known to a wide audience for his role as Chief Inspector Frank Thiel in the popular “Tatort” series from Münster, ...
Genre :Documentary

Joachim Vernau

2023-02-04 0

Düstersee

Genre :Crime, Thriller

Self

2002-10-18 0

Das Quiz mit Jörg Pilawa

Genre :Reality

Self

2017-01-31 0

MDR um 11

Genre :News

Self

2002-10-26 0

Ein roter Teppich für....

Genre :Talk

Bernd Küster

2021-02-07 5.8

Beneath the Surface

Two families have created an idyllic life for themselves on one of the Oxen Islands. But when tragedy strikes, long-buried secrets come to light, friendships are undermined, and the paradise they buil ...
Genre :Drama

Self

2021-01-04 7

Obduktion – Echte Fälle mit Tsokos und Liefers

Genre :Documentary

Self

2003-04-29 0

Lesen! Mit Elke Heidenreich

Genre :Talk

Ralph Schenk

1998-03-23 5.2

Der letzte Zeuge

Genre :Drama, Crime

Bernd Lürssen

2020-06-14 0

Ausgebremst

Genre :

Karl-Friedrich Boerne

1970-11-29 6.1

Scene of the Crime

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Swit ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Hansjörg Nikolaidis

1994-09-20 2.3

Doppelter Einsatz

Doppelter Einsatz is a German television series about the cases of two female detectives of the Hamburg police. ...
Genre :Crime

Theo Wandres

1994-11-05 5.5

Rosa Roth

Rosa Roth is a German television series. ...
Genre :Crime

Nowak

2003-03-24 6.6

Nachtschicht

Genre :Crime, Drama

Self

1995-12-05 7

Die Harald Schmidt Show

The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then move ...
Genre :Reality

Self

2007-06-09 7.8

Inas Nacht

Genre :Talk

Albert Sander

1998-10-05 0

Die Neue - Eine Frau mit Kaliber

Die Neue – Eine Frau mit Kaliber is a German television series. ...
Genre :Crime

Self

1981-02-14 5.3

Wetten, dass..?

A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?. ...
Genre :Drama, Reality, Comedy, Talk

Richard Hoffmann

2012-10-03 6.1

The Tower

A seemingly sheltered family living behind the Berlin Wall in East Germany begins to crumble, in a climate of fear, mistrust, and shocking secrets.9 ...
Genre :Drama

Self

2015-09-29 0

Soundtrack Deutschland

Genre :Documentary

Self

2008-12-27 7

Das Quiz

Genre :

self

2016-12-01 0

Ringlstetter

Genre :Talk, Comedy

Self

2018-08-18 8.3

Denn sie wissen nicht, was passiert - Die Jauch-Gottschalk-Schöneberger-Show

Genre :

Self

2020-11-24 0

Her Story

Genre :Documentary

Self

2008-07-02 0

Germany, Your Artists

Genre :Documentary

Self

1997-07-23 4.75

Leute heute

Genre :News

2018-08-18 8.3

Denn sie wissen nicht, was passiert - Die Jauch-Gottschalk-Schöneberger-Show

Genre :

Rateteam

2009-06-04 0

Kennen Sie Deutschland?

Genre :

2003-11-13 0

Die Hit-Giganten

Genre :Reality

2016-09-09 0

Käpt’ns Dinner

Genre :Talk

Self

2006-07-15 0

Extreme Activity

Genre :Reality

Self

2014-09-21 0

Mensch, Otto!

Genre :Talk

Philip Casdorff

1995-09-20 0

Die Partner

Genre :Drama

Self

2022-07-07 0

Todesrätsel mit Tsokos und Liefers

Genre :Documentary

Arthur Ahnepol

2018-08-31 6.2

Arthur's Law

Unemployed Arthur Ahnepol wants his obnoxious wife to die to claim the life insurance and start a new life with his mistress, which sets off a series of disastrous events. ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

1964-01-16 0

Grimme Awards Ceremony

Genre :News

Self

1989-01-01 0

Blauer Panther

Genre :News

Self - Presenter

1984-02-03 5.667

Goldene Kamera Verleihung

Genre :News

Self

1984-02-03 5.667

Goldene Kamera Verleihung

Genre :News

Self

1948-01-01 9

Bambi-Verleihung

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 ...
Genre :Reality

Self

1990-01-01 9

Romy Award

Genre :News

Self

1995-01-01 0

Goldene Henne

Genre :Reality

Self

2015-07-06 7.6

Wer weiß denn sowas?

Genre :Reality, Family

Self

1979-12-01 0

Bayerischer Filmpreis

Genre :Reality

Self

2015-10-26 0

Quizduell-Olymp

Genre :Reality

Self

2015-10-31 0

Spiel für dein Land

Genre :Reality

Self

1996-07-09 6.3

Zimmer frei!

Genre :Talk

Self

2003-09-02 6.333

Menschen bei Maischberger

Genre :Talk

Self

1994-12-27 5

alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio

Genre :Talk

Self

2008-06-03 5.5

Markus Lanz

TV presenter Markus Lanz invites prominent guests and experts from all areas of public life to his colourful talk show. As a rule, there are four guests, introduced individually to contribute their pe ...
Genre :Talk

Self

1997-02-23 0

Tietjen und Bommes

Genre :Talk

Self

1999-03-08 6.208

TV total

TV total is a German late-night television comedy talk show. The set of TV total includes a floating interview stage that can be moved from one studio corner to the other. The show featured buttons w ...
Genre :Talk, Comedy

Self

1998-01-22 4

The Johannes B. Kerner Show

Genre :Talk

1993-11-06 8.2

RTL Samstag Nacht

RTL Samstag Nacht was a comedy show, which ran from 6 November 1993 to 23 May 1998 on the German TV network RTL. RTL Samstag Nacht was the first major comedy show in German television, created after t ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

2005-01-15 0

Star-Biathlon

Genre :Reality

Joachim Vernau

2012-01-09 2

Joachim Vernau-Reihe

Genre :Crime

Self

1991-01-02 4.2

DAS!

Genre :Talk, News

Self

1999-10-21 8

maybrit illner

Political talk show on current topics presented by Maybrit Illner. ...
Genre :Talk

Self

1979-02-09 6.5

NDR Talk Show

Genre :Talk

Self

1974-11-19 6.5

3 nach 9

Genre :Talk

Self

1999-01-25 2

Beckmann

Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show. ...
Genre :Talk

Self

2001-01-31 5

Hart aber fair

Genre :Talk

Self

2000-04-10 3

Koschwitz

Genre :Talk

Self

1998-11-03 10

Ein Herz für Kinder

Genre :Talk

Self

2002-04-09 0

Gero von Boehm begegnet...

Genre :Talk

Self

1992-01-03 4

Riverboat

Genre :Talk

Self

2011-06-11 6.5

Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell

Klein gegen Groß – Das unglaubliche Duell is a family game show that has been broadcast on the first channel since 2011, on ORF 1 since March 2017 and on SRF 1 since November 2020. The format is produ ...
Genre :Reality

Self

1998-01-07 0

Lebensläufe

Genre :Documentary

self

1994-01-05 0

Höchstpersönlich

Genre :Talk

self

2005-12-05 6

Thadeusz

Genre :Talk

self

1997-03-11 3.2

Taff

Taff is a tabloid news magazine airing on the German television network, ProSieben. ...
Genre :News, Talk

2024-09-04 8

Gags - Comedy Deluxe

Genre :Comedy

1992-07-19 3.5

Morgenmagazin

Genre :News, Talk

Self

1992-07-19 3.5

Morgenmagazin

Genre :News, Talk

2015-07-06 7.6

Wer weiß denn sowas?

Genre :Reality, Family

Self

2009-10-28 0

Das Quiz der Deutschen

Genre :Reality

Markus Abt

2006-02-19 0

Die Sturmflut

Susanne, a meteorologist in Hamburg, has detected signs of an incipient sea storm that could devastate the city. Although given the alarm, local authorities do not listen to their warnings. To ensure ...
Genre :Action & Adventure

Self

2006-04-08 0

Die große Maus-Show

Genre :Family

Self

2016-12-01 0

Ringlstetter

Genre :Talk, Comedy