1945 Begins studies at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. Pupil of Max Kaus.
1947 Pupil and later master student of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.
1950 End of studies. Receives art prize from the city of Berlin for graphic art.
1953 Scholarship of the Art Circle in the Federal Association of German Industry.
1955 Award of the Modern Museum in Ljubljana at the 1st International Biennial of Graphic Art.
1958 Member of the German Artists' Association. Villa Romana Prize.
1959 Stay at the Villa Romana, Florence. In the following years frequent summer stays in Olevano Romano.
1963 Honorary member of the Accademia Fiorentina delle Arti del Disegno, Florence.
1966 Appointed to the architecture department of the TH Karlsruhe. Chair of painting and graphics.
1968 Large sgraffito in the Reichstag (removed in 1995 during the reconstruction of the Reichstag), Berlin and other applied works. First works from Friuli.
1972 Aluminium collage for the Olympic basketball hall in Munich.
1978 Termination of teaching activities at the University of Karlsruhe.
1980 Metal collage wall for the Goethe Institute in Tokyo.
1982 Awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.
1995 Large travelling exhibition "Works and Documents" in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, in the Städtische Galerie im Prinz-Max-Palais, Karlsruhe and in the Altonaer Museum, Hamburg.
2000 Moves to Berlin.
2004 Retrospective on the occasion of his 80th birthday at the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, Ephraim-Palais.
2007 Carl-Heinz Kliemann Woodcuts 1947 - 2006, Berlinische Galerie State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture.
2008 Gallery Glöckner, Cologne. Carl-Heinz Kliemann Paintings and Aluminium Collages
2010 Gallery Nierendorf, Berlin Carl-Heinz Kliemann woodcuts and other works from six decades.
2010 Galerie Rieder, Munich Carl-Heinz Kliemann works on paper.
Born in Berlin in 1924.