- When he finished his education he started his career the opera house in Berlin in 1922. In the next years followed engagements in Wiesbaden, Stuttgart and Kaiserslautern.
- In the immediate post-war period, German broadcasters, especially in the Soviet occupation zone, boycotted Strienz since his name was associated with Nazi propaganda of the war years. But he continued his singing career nonetheless, making successful tours and receiving a record contract from Decca.
- In 1936, he sang in the Nationalsozialistische Kulturgemeinde-produced film Ewiger Wald (Eternal Forest).
- Wilhelm Strienz was able to continue his career after the war although his name was on the so-called "Gottbegnadeten-Liste" of Adolf Hitler.
- After the seizure of power in Germany by the Nazis in 1933, broadcasting director Ernst Hardt was dismissed but Strienz joined the S.A. and was engaged by the Berlin State Opera. In 1935, he recorded Deutsch sein heißt treu sein! (To be German is to be loyal) and Flieg', Deutsche Fahne Flieg'! (Fly, German flag) on the Electrola label.
- The singer and actor Wilhelm Strienz finished a commercial education before he dedicated to the singing.
- Between 1926 and 1933, Strienz worked for the newly founded Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne.
- He realised several records and went on several tours.
- Strienz made his debut in 1922 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as the hermit in Weber's Der Freischütz. In subsequent years, he performed at the opera houses of Wiesbaden, Kaiserslautern and Stuttgart. His roles included Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust, van Bett in Lortzing's Zar und Zimmermann, and numerous Wagnerian roles.
- He became a popular performer on radio best known by the nickname Willi Strienz.
- He ended his singing career in 1963 and retired into private life.
- Thank to his popularity he also got the possibility to appear in few movies where he impersonated singers.
- In the final phase of the Second World War, Adolf Hitler included Strienz in the Gottbegnadeten list (list of those graced by God) as one of nine major concert singers in August 1944, exempting him from military service during the final stages of the war.
- In 1937 and 1938, he sang Sarastro in the first complete recording of Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) with the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Thomas Beecham, and in 1943 Falstaff in the first complete recording of Nicolai's opera Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor) under Artur Rother, also in Berlin, both of these major German roles with overpowering magnificence and grandeur of voice and interpretation.
- Because of his great popularity, the Nazi regime called on him after the start of World War II to sing on the popular radio music show Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmacht (Request Concert for the Armed Forces), where he was particularly renowned for his rendition of Gute Nacht, Mutter (Good Night, Mother) by Werner Bochmann.
- He was a German bass operatic singer.
- From 1940, he recorded various other war songs as a soloist. He also appeared in the propaganda films Wunschkonzert (1940) and Fronttheater (1942).
- Wilhelm Strienz also worked for the radio from 1926, beside it he remained active as an opera singer.
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