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Henry Pretty (2009)

Henry Hübchen (born February 20, 1947 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) is a German actor . He was one of the most prominent character actors in the GDR . In reunified Germany , he was best known for his collaboration with the theater director Frank Castorf at the Volksbühne in Berlin and in his role as the former GDR sports reporter Jaecki Zucker in Alles auf Zucker! .

Life

First roles and training

Henry Hübchen was born as the son of a designer and an accountant in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg . In 1949 the family moved to East Berlin . Hübchen gained his first acting experience in his youth. Among other things, he played a small supporting role in the first DEFA Indian film The Sons of the Big Bear (1965). After graduation, he began at the Humboldt University of Berlin , a physics degree , which he broke off after one year. In 1970 he completed acting training at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in East Berlin, which he graduated with a diploma a year later.

theatre

He made his stage debut at the Theater Magdeburg before coming to the Volksbühne Berlin in 1974 through the artistic director and director Benno Besson , where he was part of the ensemble until 2002. After the fall of the Wall , there was a collaboration with the theater director Frank Castorf , who cast him in his productions as a character actor in both classic and modern plays. Hübchen played, among others, Franz Moor in Friedrich Schiller's The Robbers or in the play Pension Schöller : The Battle for Carl run , Wilhelm Jacoby and Heiner Müller , where he was the uncle Philip 1994th At the Volksbühne he also worked with various other directors, such as Brigitte Soubeyran , who cast him in the title role in Jean Racine's Britannicus .

Some of the theater productions were also broadcast on television, for example he was seen in 1999 as a CP member Hoederer in Sartres' play The Dirty Hands . In 2000 he acted as Stepan Trofimowitsch Verkhovensky in Castorf's play Demons , which is loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Demons and the novel The Possessed by Albert Camus . In addition, he made guest appearances on the stages in Cologne and at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus . Hübchen has received several awards for his stage work, including being named actor of the year by the trade journal Theater heute in 1994 and 2001 . In 2000 he received the Berlin Theater Prize.

In addition, he also worked as a theater director . For his staging of the Molière comedy Der Menschenfeind with Horst Westphal in the title role of Alceste, which premiered in 1991 , he received the 1993 Friedrich-Luft-Preis of the Berliner Morgenpost as a collective in 1993 .

Movie and TV

After Hübchen worked in various cinema and television productions as a child and adolescent, he began to work increasingly in front of the camera from the 1970s onwards, parallel to his stage appearances. From 1972 he was repeatedly seen as an episode actor in the crime film series Polizeiruf 110 , until 1988 he made seven guest appearances. Hübchen took on a first major role in the role of the young Jew Mischa in Frank Beyer's Jakob the Liar (1974), which was nominated for an Oscar . He played another leading role in Erwin Stranka's youth film Die Moral der Banditen (1975), which is loosely based on the novel of the same name by Horst Bastian .

In the following years he took part in several productions of the German TV radio , such as in Mord im Märkischen Viertel (1975) from the series Criminal Cases Without Example , the comedy Camping-Camping (1977) or as the son of Agnes Kraus in the film comedy Aber Doktor ( 1980). In the television film Johann Sebastian Bach's vain journey to fame (1980) he played Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , the son of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach . In Klaus Gendries ' two-parter Der Bastard (1983) he took on the title role of Rando Beggerow, the son of a pig thief who is in search of happiness and his place in life. In the Theodor Storm novel adaptation, Es ist der Wald so silent (1985), which was produced for television, he played the leading role of Rudolf. In the Anna Seghers film The Real Blue (1986), Benito was seen in the role of the Mexican potter.

After reunification, Hübchen was able to seamlessly build on his successes in the GDR. After he played the title role in the ZDF six-part series Karl May (1992), In the Hera-Lind film adaptation A man for each key (1993), Katja Riemann's film debut , he played the role of concert critic Georg Lalinde in reunified Germany to be seen again on the big screen for the first time. He also took on his first two roles in the ARD crime series Tatort , in which the Dresden Tatort team investigated Ehrlicher and Kain . In the episode Burned Game (1993), he played a married doctor who is blackmailed after a night of love with another woman. Dieter Wedel cast him for his multi-part TV series Der Schattenmann (1996) and Der König von St. Pauli (1998). In the television series Warten ist der Tod (1999), he played the former Air Force pilot Klaus Kellermann, who wants to land a great coup with his two colleagues Jürgen Venske ( Ulrich Tukur ) and Hans-Peter Laux ( Jörg Schüttauf ). In Leander Haußmann's film debut Sonnenallee (1999), he played alongside Katharina Thalbach, his undershirted father Ehrenreich, who found his joy in sex again. In 2001, Hübchen played Chief Inspector Martin Rogatzki in the crime film Boran . In the same year he had a similar role as criminal secretary Fabich in Sass - Die Meisterdiebe , the story of the Sass brothers , who became known for their series of burglaries in the 1920s.

From 2003 to 2005, Hübchen took on a permanent role in Police Call 110 as Schwerin Chief Inspector Tobias Törner. In Dani Levy's Everything on Sugar! (2004) was seen alongside Hannelore Elsner as the shrewd Berlin ex-GDR sports reporter Jaeckie Zucker, who long ago lost his Jewish faith. For his comedic drama shown in the film, he was awarded the German Film Prize 2005 for best leading actor .

From 2006 to 2009 Hübchen appeared in five films in the ARD crime series Commissario Laurenti , which were based on the crime novels by Veit Heinichen , in the role of Commissario Proteo Laurenti. In addition, he was Harry in the tragic comedy Age and Beauty in 2009 as the best friend of a terminally ill man, in Andreas Dresen's comedy Whiskey with Vodka he was seen as the alcoholic actor Otto Kullberg, in the bestselling film adaptation Lila, Lila based on the novel by Martin Suter he was seen in the role of the literarily talented drifter Jacky, who becomes a blackmailer, and in the fairy tale film The Goose Girl as the fairy tale king Gustav.

In Philipp Stölzl's Goethe! (2010) he played the father of the young poet and naturalist. In the Mark Twain film adaptation of The Adventures of Huck Finn (2012) he took on the role of the slave hunter Packard. In Florian David Fitz ' Jesus Loves Me , he was the archangel Gabriel demoted to the village pastor. In the tragic comedy Die Zeit mit Euch (2014) he was seen alongside Leslie Malton as the newly retired television journalist Paul, who is in the midst of a crisis of meaning. In Liebe am Fjord - Unterm Eis (2015) he played the Norwegian family patriarch Thore. In the ZDF social drama Der Pfarrer und das Mädchen (2015) he took on the role of Max Polke as the best friend of the Berlin pastor Thomas Seelow ( Rainer Hunold ), who has worked his way up from a petty criminal to the owner of a cleaning and security company. In the tragic comedy Visit for Emma (2015) he played the homeless August von Zinnerberg, who befriends the rogue cashier Emma Beeskow ( Dagmar Manzel ). In the crime film Days of the Last Snow (2019), which is based on the novel of the same name by Jan Costin Wagner , he took on the lead role of Chief Detective Johannes Fischer. For the film comedy Die Kangaroo Chronicles , which started in German cinemas in March 2020 , he was again in front of the camera in a double role of twin brothers Jörg and Jörn Dwigs, directed by Dani Levy.

Others

In addition to his acting work, Hübchen appeared as a singer with the bands The Continentals and Die Klosterbrüder, among others in the television program Die Notenbank . He composed several songs for the City group , including the songs Gute Reasons and Casablanca from the album of the same name . In 1981 and 1982 Hübchen was also a GDR master in " board sailing ".

Private

Henry Hübchen is married to his acting agent Sanna, but has been separated from his wife for a long time, with whom he has two daughters, including Theresa Hübchen , who is also an actress . He has lived with his partner Carmen Kopplin since 1997.

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays

Awards

documentary

literature

Web links

Commons : Henry Hübchen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Henry Hübchen biography at defa-stiftung.de ; accessed on May 21, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Henry Hübchen: Life and Work . In: Kino.de .
  3. ↑ a b c Henry Hübchen , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 02/2017 from January 10, 2017, in the Munzinger archive , accessed on January 10, 2017 ( beginning of article freely available)
  4. ↑ Agency Hübchen Imprint of the agency: Sanna Hübchen, Franziska Hübchen
  5. ↑ a b c Henry Hübchen has a wife and girlfriend: "One should keep one's freedom" In: RP Online from December 12, 2007. Retrieved on May 21, 2020.
  6. ↑ Henry Hübchen - My Life Synopsis at programm.ard.de; accessed on May 21, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Pretty, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin