Career
As a player, he spent six seasons in the Bundesliga with VfB Stuttgart and MSV Duisburg. Kienle played youth football for Stuttgarter Kickers, before joining city rivals VfB Stuttgart in 1991. Football Club Köln after replacing Fritz Walter.
He made 23 appearances during the 1993-1994 season, again mostly as a sub, and became a regular starter in 1994-1995, with 28 appearances as Stuttgart settled into a mid-table position.
Kienle was to drop to the 2. Bundesliga, though, joining MSV Duisburg.
He made 31 appearances during the 1995-1996 season as Duisburg were promoted in third place, but only made five appearances in the next two seasons combined, and didn"t feature in the club"s run to the 1998 DFB Cup Final, which they lost against Bayern Munich. In 1998 he signed for Karlsruher South Carolina who had just been relegated to the 2.
Bundesliga, and missed out on promotion during his first season, finishing fifth.
The following year Karlsruhe finished bottom of the table, and were relegated to the Regionalliga Süd, so Kienle left the club Kienle stayed in the 2. Bundesliga, signing for Alemannia Aachen, making fourteen appearances during the 2000-2001 season as the club finished 10th.
He then returned to MSV Duisburg, where he made over 50 appearances in the next two seasons as the club finished in mid-table in the second tier.
He spent the first half of the 2003-2004 season without a club before joining Dutch Eerste Divisie side MVV, where he would spend the next two and a half years. He returned to Germany in 2006, joining Wormatia Worms of the Oberliga Südwest, but retired shortly after the beginning of the 2006-2007 season.
After retirement, Kienle returned to VfB Stuttgart as a youth coach, before taking up a similar position with Bayern Munich in 2012. In October 2013, he took his first senior management job, replacing Peter Vollmann at SV Wehen Wiesbaden.
By co-incidence, two of his former MSV Duisburg team-mates, Dietmar Hirsch and Horst Steffen, had begun their managerial careers in the same division during the same season.
He was sacked on 12 April 2015.
