- He played from 1995 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin again, and from 2000 at the Nationaltheater Mannheim.
- He often worked in radio plays , as well for film and television.
- From 1974, Holtz was a member of the Berliner Ensemble.
- He the played at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in East Berlin, and from 1966 to 1974 at the Deutsches Theater there.
- His first engagements were in Erfurt (1955-1957) and in Brandenburg an der Havel (1957-1960), and Greifswald 1960 to 1964.
- He studied acting at the Deutsches Theaterinstitut in Weimar and the Theaterhochschule Leipzig, graduating in 1955.
- Among all his roles he was best remembered for the title role in the world premiere of Moritz Tassow by Peter Hacks in 1966, directed by Benno Besson, and Angelo in Shakespeare's Maß für Maß (Measure for Measure) in 1968, staged by Adolf Dresen.
- At age 86, Holtz played from January 2019 the title role in Brecht's Leben des Galilei, adapted by Frank Castorf for the Berliner Ensemble.
- From 1993 he mimicked the GDR hater in the ARD series "Motzki". The series was created by screenwriter Wolfgang Menge, who had also brought "Disgust Alfred" on television.
- He had great success some in films, for example in the GDR comedy "Good Bye, Lenin!" and in Margarethe von Trotta's portrait film "Rosa Luxemburg".
- Holtz received two special honors from a theater role: For his portrayal as the old man in the drama "Cataract" by Rainald Goetz, he received the Gertrud-Eysoldt Ring and was named Actor of the Year by the magazine "Theater heute".
- Holtz had worked on several major German theaters and was known on TV as a nagging "Motzki". In the ARD series, he satirically focused on German-German unification.
- Holtz had played a major role in the theater. At the Berlin Ensemble, he played the physicist Galileo Galilei in the drama by Bertolt Brecht at the beginning of 2019, directed by the theater maker Frank Castorf. The premiere lasted almost six hours - and Holtz played the piece partially naked.
- In the early 1980s, he continued his career in West Germany.
- Holtz was born in Berlin, studied acting in the GDR and worked there on several stages and for the Defa.
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