Hans Joachim Heinrichs

Hans Joachim Heinrichs (born May 26, 1917 in Baruth / Mark ; † December 16, 1995 in Berlin-Pankow ) was a German lyricist, composer, guest performance director and emcee.

After completing secondary school, Heinrichs began a three-year training course at the state-approved company for the exploitation of musical copyrights STAGMA, today's GEMA . In parallel to his subsequent work as a clerk in the serious music department (1937–1939), he performed his first cabaret and concert evenings with an ensemble of young artists in public at the age of 17. Heinrichs also directed this ensemble's guest appearance with the revue “Heimat Berlin” in the comedians' cabaret (November 1938).

As early as autumn 1945, the first cabaret artists dared to take to the boards in Berlin, setting up countless, consistently short-lived companies that were more focused on gastronomic sales than on artistic intentions. Among them, the only thing that stood out was the Berliner Kammerbrettl , which Hans Joachim Heinrichs brought to life and which moved into the Café Wiesner at the Ostkreuz S-Bahn station - a cabaret of entertainment and literary ambition that reflects the original Berlin humor as well as the critical, time-related parody and Satire paid special attention. Initially Heinrichs only appeared in short programs with the parodist and sketch partner Otto John. The well-known humorist Fredy Sieg then shone alongside Lotte Partyka and Ilse Maybrid in his first cabaret revue "Is there still love?" (1947). Heinrichs not only presented young talent in his studio programs, but also endeavored to promote a contemporary repertoire. Many well-known artists, including Gerhard Froboess , Trude Lehmann , Hans Lugerti, Ursula Müller, Willi Rose and Hans Rose, Ursula Friese, Lotte Werkmeister , Gerhard Wollner , Günther Hintze and, as a young talent, Eberhard Cohrs played in his programs. The Berliner Kammerbrettl disbanded in 1949 after the small-scale "Nante back in Berlin" with Lotte Partyka, Anni Neumann and Fredy Schütz as Nante.

With the license from the Soviet headquarters at the time, he also founded a concert and guest performance directorate parallel to the Berliner Kammerbrettl - the “Heinrichs Gastspiele”. In the years 1947–1953, numerous entertainment programs were created, including a. performed in the Berlin Friedrichstadtpalast , which bore his signature. Heinrichs was the last and only private license holder in East Berlin. After the license was withdrawn, Hans Joachim Heinrichs became the main consultant for cabaret and artistry at the newly founded concert and guest performance directorate (KGD) in Berlin in 1953 . In 1955 he was responsible for around 50 open-air events in Berlin's Prater on Kastanienallee.

In 1958 he began his career as a freelance emcee. Dependent on the highly irregular engagements of the concert and guest performance management, Heinrichs now trundled through the districts of the GDR, made guest appearances in night bars (Cabaret Eden Leipzig, Trocadero Stralsund, Café Prague Dresden), in the house of the cheerful muse Leipzig, in the Steintor-Varieté Halle, however also in numerous FDGB holiday homes on the island of Hiddensee and along the Baltic Sea coast.

From 1968 to 1978 he was first chairman of the GlfM-Artistik Berlin and for many years a member of the Central Artistic Committee . Of the awards he has received over the years, the "Hans Otto Medal", which he received on his 60th birthday, was particularly valuable.

literature

• Rudolf Hösch: Cabaret yesterday and today . Henschelverlag Berlin 1972, pp. 220-222
• Rainer Otto, Walter Rösler: cabaret history - demolition of the German-language cabaret . Henschelverlag Berlin 1977, p. 183
• Herbert Klein: Hans Joachim Heinrichs on his 70th birthday . Entertainment art magazine 5/1987, p. 25