Gerd Michael Henneberg

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Gerd Michael Henneberg (born July 14, 1922 in Magdeburg ; † January 1, 2011 in Berlin ; actually Gerhard Otto Henneberg ) was a German actor , theater director and director .

Life

Gerd Michael Henneberg was born the son of Richard Henneberg (1897-1959), an actor and theater director. His paternal grandfather was the Social Democrat Friedrich Henneberg (1872–1952), who was age-president in the first Magdeburg city parliament after 1945. Gerd Michael Henneberg was already on the theater stage in Leipzig at the age of 16 in 1937 after taking private acting lessons . After engagements in Aschaffenburg and at the German National Theater in Weimar (here among others in the reopening production of Faust I in 1948 ), he moved to Berlin. There Henneberg appeared as an actor in the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm and at the Volksbühne . From the mid-1970s he was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin for several decades . There he was in over 400 performances of Eine flew über das Kuckucksnest in the production of Rolf Winkelgrund as an inpatient Scanlon and in Tony Kushner's political satire Slavs! (1995). One of his last theater roles was that of factotum Shunderson in Curt Goetz 'comedy Dr. med. Job Prätorius with Horst Schulze in the title role in the production by Martin Wölffer at the Comedy Dresden (1997). On October 5, 1960, Henneberg received the prize for artistic folk creation, 1st class.

In the 1960s, Henneberg initially worked as theater director at the Friedrich Wolf Theater in Neustrelitz , where he successfully staged the musical My Fair Lady with Doris Abeßer in the title role. After the death of Heinrich Allmeroth , he moved to the Dresden State Theater as general director in February 1962. After the staging of various contemporary subjects had been heavily criticized by the SED press, he had to publicly justify himself in October 1965 and admit that the theater had "made no decisive contribution to the development of socialist drama" and that no socialist author was associated with the ensemble and Dresden has lost "soil and substance" to other GDR theaters . In February 1966, Henneberg was replaced by the Chemnitz general manager Hans Dieter Mäde , whereupon he returned to Neustrelitz (1966–1968) as general manager and replaced Julius Theurer , who had been appointed in the meantime .

Parallel to his theater work, Henneberg worked in over 60 film and television productions from the mid-1950s. One of his few main DEFA roles in 1958 was that of Würzburg Prince-Bishop Konrad II von Thüngen in the artist biography Tilman Riemenschneider by Helmut Spieß . His numerous supporting roles include his portrayal of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel in Juri Oserows and Julius Kuns on the eight-hour war epic Liberation (1969) as well as appearances in Ulrich Weiß 'feature film Your Unknown Brother (1982) and in the crime series Polizeiruf 110 .

Gerd Michael Henneberg was married several times. One of his children (from his marriage to the actress and TV announcer Maria Kühne) is the TV journalist Hellmuth Henneberg (* 1958). At the beginning of 2011, Gerd Michael Henneberg died after a long, serious illness at the age of 88.

Plays (selection)

  • 1958: The petty bourgeoisie ( Theater Stralsund ; director)
  • 1958: Heiner Müller / Inge Müller : The wage pusher (fascist) - Director: Hans Dieter Mäde ( Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
  • 1959: Maxim Gorky : enemies (clerk Pologij) - Director: Hans Dieter Mäde (Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin)
  • 1959: Valentin Katajew : Time Ahead (Literature) - Director: Horst Schönemann (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
  • 1960: No Hüsung (open-air performance in Puchow; direction)
  • 1983: Molière : The learned women (Notarius) - Director: Karl Gassauer (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
  • 1991: Comedian (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin; actor)
  • 1992: Ghetto (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin; actor)
  • 1993: An enemy of the people (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin; actor)
  • 1994: From Another Life. An investigation (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin; actor)
  • 1995: Slavs! (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin; actor)
  • 1996/97: Dr. med. Job Prätorius (Comedy Dresden / Staatstheater Dresden; actor)
  • 1999: It's a shame that she's a whore (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin, actor)

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Barz, Paul: A theater evening for nostalgics . In: Welt am Sonntag , September 21, 1997 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
  2. ↑ Erika Tschernig, Monika Kollega, Gudrun Müller. Our culture: GDR chronological table, 1945-1987 . Dietz Verlag (1989). ISBN 978-3-320-01132-1 . P. 117.
  3. ↑ Hans Blaimer. Culture in our time. On the theory and practice of the socialist cultural revolution in the GDR . Dietz Verlag (1965). P. 428.
  4. ↑ cf. Tremper, Jürgen: Longing for transformation . In: Nordkurier , March 12, 2010 (accessed via Wiso presse )
  5. ↑ cf. Cultural news . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 19, 1962, p. 20
  6. ↑ cf. Self-criticism in the theater . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 26, 1965, p. 28
  7. ↑ cf. Cultural news . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 12, 1966, p. 2
  8. ↑ cf. 50 years of the reopening of the Landestheater Neustrelitz (part 8) . In: Nordkurier, March 5, 2004 (accessed via Wiso presse )
  9. ↑ Gerd Michael Henneberg died at the age of 88 at mz-web.de, January 2, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Henneberg, Gerd Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henneberg, Gerhard Otto (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 2011
Place of death Berlin