Herbert Huebner (actor)

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Herbert Richard Eberhard Hermann Hübner (born February 6, 1889 in Breslau , † January 27, 1972 in Munich ) was a German actor .

Herbert Huebner

Life

Herbert Hübner received acting lessons from Otto Gerlach and made his debut at the Theater der Stadt Heidelberg in 1907 as Lieutenant Tissot in the tragedy The Menonite by Ernst von Wildenbruch . He then played in Alzey and in 1909 at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf . A little later he worked in Nuremberg , where he was also employed as a director. Before the outbreak of war, Hübner worked in Vienna. He spent the entire First World War as a soldier.

In 1919 he went on a tour through Upper Silesia, from 1919 to 1925 he was engaged at the Old Theater in Leipzig. From 1925 to 1929 he was a member of the Thalia Theater ensemble in Hamburg. In 1929 Max Reinhardt brought him to the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna. In 1935 he settled in Berlin, where he appeared at the Großer Schauspielhaus , the Renaissance Theater , the Theater am Kurfürstendamm , the Hebbel Theater and the Schiller Theater , among others .

Hübner took over the title roles in Gerhart Hauptmann's Fuhrmann Henschel and Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt , was Petrucchio in The Taming of the Shrew , Iago in Othello , Gessler in Wilhelm Tell and Jupiter in Sartre's Die Flies . In Hamlet he played King Claudius or Polonius. In Schiller's Don Karlos he was Duke Alba and King Philip, and in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Frank the Fifth the President. In the 1950s he became a member of the Münchner Kammerspiele . He has appeared on stages in Great Britain , France and the Netherlands .

At the same time, Hübner worked intensively for the film throughout his career. He usually embodied powerful, influential men such as high nobles, upper class citizens and directors. He played, for example, in 1941 the role of Admiral Karl Rudolf Brommy in the propaganda film Secret Files WB1 of Herbert Selpin . He embodied anti-Semitically distorted caricatures of Jews in Robert and Bertram (1939), … rides for Germany (1941) and Vienna 1910 (1942).

After the war he first worked for DEFA and from 1950 for German production companies. He was also active for the radio and as a voice actor.

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SURNAME Huebner, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hübner, Herbert Richard Eberhard Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Breslau , Silesia, German Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1972
Place of death Munich , Bavaria, Federal Republic of Germany