Munich Kammerspiele
Manteuffel was born in Bayrischzell to a family of Baltic-German origin. He visited an actors school in Munich in 1967-70 and first appeared on a stage in 1969 in Bertolt Brecht's "Die Ausnahme und die Regel" at the Munich Kammerspiele and became a member of the Kammerspiele ensemble in 1972 (until 1984).