Heinz Hoenig

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Heinz Hoenig in front of the Hard Rock Cafe Hamburg (2018)

Heinz Hoenig (born September 24, 1951 in Landsberg am Lech , Upper Bavaria ) is a German film actor .

Life

Heinz Hoenig was born as the son of a crane operator and grew up in Harlingerode , a district of Bad Harzburg in the Goslar district , in the Harz Mountains , trained as a locksmith, worked as a silversmith, carpenter, snack bar employee and as a street worker for the anti-drug project Release in Berlin . After a guest appearance at John Allen's Theater of All Possibilities , he went to America with Allen to take acting lessons with him. From 1972 to 1974 he lived on Allen's farm near Santa Fe . Back in Germany he played at the Berlin Grips Theater , and from 1976 he was seen in the cinema and on television.

Hoenig first became known through Wolfgang Petersen's film Das Boot from 1981, in which he played the radio operator. In 1992 he proved himself in the role of the unscrupulous speculator Rottmann as a character actor in Der große Bellheim and acted as an evil opponent of Mario Adorf in the award-winning four-part series about a fictional trading company. Now and then he also takes part in international productions. In between, he plays theater again, so 1986 in the Sam Shepard -Stück Fool For Love in Zurich.

Heinz the bull in Berlin-Steglitz

Heinz Hoenig is the founder of the Heinz der Stier initiative , an organization that takes care of psychologically traumatized children and young people and invites them to go on an adventure holiday to Mallorca and to take media-educational measures in the Harz Mountains to open up new horizons, also for their later professional life. to open. For this commitment he was awarded the Kind Award by Kinderlachen in 2005. The donations for Heinz the bull are made by Deutsche Kinderhilfe e. V. managed directly.

In 2003 his book I take my freedom was published . Hoenig was married in 1988 and has two children. His wife died on March 25, 2012 at the age of 52.

Hoenig lives in Blankenburg in the Harz Mountains and has been married again since 2019.

In 2019, he appeared on ProSieben's TV show The Masked Singer disguised as a cockatoo and was the third participant to be exposed.

Filmography (selection)

Theater (selection)

Awards

Heinz Hoenig at work on Heads or Tails with director Benjamin Eicher , 2006

literature

  • Heinz Hoenig, Paul Barz : I take my freedom. Memories of 50 wild years . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2002, ISBN 3-7857-2104-8 (also as audio cassette and audio CD).

Discography

  • 2001: family ties

Web links

Commons : Heinz Hoenig  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simone Hoenig is dead: Heinz Hoenig's wife died of heart failure. Focus , April 2, 2012, accessed April 2, 2012 .
  2. ↑ TV star Heinz Hoenig said YES. BILD , March 3, 2019, accessed on December 27, 2019 : “The actor moved from turbulent Berlin to the tranquil town. " I found my home again in Blankenburg . And here I am", said Hoenig “
  3. ↑ Through the back entrance to the wedding. Goslarsche Zeitung , April 4, 2019, accessed on April 5, 2019 .
  4. ↑ "The Masked Singer 2019": Unmasked: The cockatoo is Heinz Hönig. TV Movie , July 11, 2019, accessed July 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hoenig, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hönig, Heinz; Hönig-Honigbaum, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg am Lech