Heinz Schenk

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Heinz Schenk (born December 11, 1924 in Mainz as Heinz Friedrich Schenk ; † May 1, 2014 in Wiesbaden-Naurod ) was a German showmaster , actor and singer.

Live and act

Schenk already performed as a boy with a hand-made speech in the Mainz women's choir carnival. After graduating from the Bischöflichen Willigis-Gymnasium he completed an apprenticeship in the carpet and curtain department of the Wiesbaden department store Krüger & Brandt and took acting lessons at the same time. Schenk received the Reichstheaterkammer ID required for appearances with the help of his pastor, who manipulated the parentage of his mother, a " half-Jewish " according to National Socialist terminology .

Schenk got his first engagement after the war in Worms with a cabaret called Elefant for a fee of five Reichsmarks and a tribal meal per evening as well as a third class ticket. There he parodied Heinz Rühmann , Theo Lingen , Hans Moser and Hans Albers .

In 1951 he started working as a radio host at Hessischer Rundfunk . He had the private channel his first television appearances Telesaar in Saarland , where he had as master of ceremonies advertising products call as often as possible the names.

Schenk first became known with the radio program Frankfurter Wecker and later mainly with the television entertainment program Zum Blauen Bock , which he took over from Otto Höpfner in 1966 and moderated 134 times for 21 years. Lia Wöhr acted as landlady and producer of the show, and Reno Nonsens as assistant . Schenk wrote all the songs he sang in the Blauer Bock himself and composed mostly with Franz Grothe .

As an actor he was seen in Dieter Wedel's multi-parter Wilder Westen inclusive (in the role of early retiree Konrad Abs) and in 1992 with Hape Kerkeling in the satire Kein Pardon (in the role of the choleric show master Heinz Wäscher). He appeared in several productions of the Frankfurt Volkstheater , a. a. together with Liesel Christ in Rendezvous in the Palmengarten by Adolf Stoltze , as Datterich , as Prof. Henry Higgins in the musical My Fair Lady and as Miser in the Hessian adaptation of Molières Der Geizige .

"Bembel" from the Blauer Bock with the signature of Heinz Schenk.

From February 1993 to November 1996, Schenk had made a comeback with the show Fröhlich poured in . A few years later he appeared again on television as part of a major guest appearance in the episode “Das Osterwunder” of the RTL series Alles Atze (first episode of the second season, first broadcast on April 20, 2001).

Heinz Schenk was also successful as a singer and lyricist . His lyrics were mostly composed by Franz Grothe and performed in his television programs. His biggest hit (35th place in the sales charts) was the song Es ist alles only loaned on the occasion of a Blaue Bock broadcast from Vaduz in 1978 , with which he even appeared in the ZDF hit parade . Other well-known songs by him are Everything man can buy - just no time and we are all puppets as well as the carnival hit Today is Carnival in Knieritz an der Knatter , which Ernst Hilbich wrote every year during the carnival time in the blue in the 1970s and 1980s Bock was presented - the text was rewritten by Heinz Schenk. 1985 Schenk also sang the song of the ARD television lottery Give the luck a chance .

Schenk has received numerous awards, including the Hessian Order of Merit , the Bambi , the Hermann Löns Medal and the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class .

The Hessian rock band Rodgau Monotones dedicated the song Die Hesse komm! the line of text "(...) our David Bowie is called Heinz Schenk".

Heinz Schenk lived in retirement in Wiesbaden-Naurod . His wife Gerti, née Kraus, a trained hairdresser with whom he had been married since 1951, died at the age of 85 on December 4, 2013 at home in Wiesbaden.

death

Heinz Schenk died on the night of May 1, 2014 at the age of 89 in his home in Wiesbaden-Naurod as a result of a stroke . The Hessian Prime Minister Volker Bouffier ( CDU ) paid tribute to him in an obituary with the words: "He has helped shape the image of the Hessians throughout Germany for many decades." He was buried on May 15, 2014 among his closest friends at the Wiesbaden-Naurod cemetery .

Heinz Schenk Foundation

The administrator of the estate is Horst Klemmer from Oldenburg in Lower Saxony , a personal friend and manager of Heinz Schenk for 40 years. During Schenk's lifetime, he was appointed to set up and manage a Heinz Schenk Foundation , which is funded from the estate. This should take care of the financial support of young musicians and other stage artists when starting their careers. Schenk's house in Wiesbaden, in which the childless couple lived for 45 years, was sold in favor of his planned foundation. It is to be demolished for a new building. Parts of the estate (clothing) were handed over to the President of the DRK Regional Association Oldenburg , Dieter Holzapfel , in Oldenburg in October 2015 as part of the refugee crisis in Europe 2015 for refugees in Oldenburg . In August 2016, an auction of over 9,000 items from the estate took place in favor of the foundation. In the couple's former home, the entire home furnishings came under the hammer, including Schenk's audio and video equipment, several Bembels and two Bambis .

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Schenk - first engagement in the Worms "Elefanten" , worms.de
  2. ↑ An evening with Heinz Schenk. In: ARD.de .
  3. ↑ It's all just borrowed , video on YouTube
  4. ↑ Man can buy anything - just no time on YouTube
  5. ↑ We're all puppets , on YouTube
  6. ↑ Today is the carnival in Knieritz an der Knatter 1985
  7. ↑ Heinz Schenk mourns his wife Gerti In: Frankfurter Rundschau , December 4, 2013.
  8. ↑ Christian Matz, Manfred Gerber: Wiesbaden: TV star Heinz Schenk is dead - he died at the age of 89. In: Wiesbadener Kurier , May 1, 2014.
  9. ↑ Heinz Schenk is dead: A life for the show (shz.de) , May 1, 2014
  10. ↑ knerger.de: Heinz Schenk's grave
  11. ^ Memorial service for Heinz Schenk: Silent farewell for an old clown on nwzonline.de, May 16, 2014
  12. ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung, May 3, 2014
  13. ↑ Heinz Schenk is dead ; Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 1, 2014; accessed on May 1, 2016
  14. ↑ Heinz Schenk - very personal! ( Memento from August 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Holger Weinert and Margit Sponheimer present the great entertainer on hr-fernsehen; dated December 8, 2015; accessed on May 1, 2016
  15. ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung, October 23, 2015
  16. ↑ Heinz Schenk - 420 euros for a Bembel ; Frankfurter Rundschau online, August 20, 2016
  17. ↑ Bembel, Bambi and vacation pictures ; FAZ from August 20, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Schenk, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German showmaster and actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 2014
Place of death Wiesbaden