Holger Henze

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Holger Henze (2009)

Holger "Holgi" Henze (born March 13, 1944 in Kiel ) is a German innkeeper , gallery owner and comic author .

Career

"Holgi" at the press conference for The Werner Race at Wacken Open Air 2018

Holger Henze grew up in Kiel. After studying art in Berlin , he returned to Kiel and, in 1967, together with students from the Muthesius-Werkschule, founded the Information Center for Young Artists. V. , of which he has been the first chairman since 1972. Henze has been running the Club 68 gallery , a restaurant with an attached art gallery, founded by the information center since 1968 . There he met the late 1970s Rötger "crumbs" Feldmann know, the creator of the Werner - Comics . From 1979 to 1985 Feldmann's comics, for which Henze often wrote the lyrics, were regularly published in the satirical magazine pardon .

In 1985, in “Werner - Eiskalt!”, The fourth volume in the Werner series, Feldmann discussed a bet between him and Henze. It was about a race in which Werner competed against Holgi's 1967 Porsche 911 with the Red Porsche Killer , a self-built motorcycle powered by four Horex engines . In September 1988, the Werner Race actually took place as part of a three-day festival on Schleswig-Holstein's Hartenholm airfield in front of around 200,000 spectators, with Henze winning. Henze also won the new edition of the 2004 race at the Lausitzring .

30 years after the first race, he again competed with his Porsche in Hartenholm as part of a festival lasting several days against the Red Porsche Killer . On the 200 meter short section of the airfield runway, which was used for the drag race , he lost for the first time.

In 1997, Holger Henze published a comic called “Holgi”, which follows on from the 1988 race. In the 2011 movie Werner - Eiskalt! Henze played himself and also dubbed the character Holgi in the animated sequences of the film.

bibliography

Filmography

Web links

Commons : Holger Henze  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Register of associations of the AG Kiel , VR 2222 (Information Center for Young Artists)
  2. ↑ a b c d Dana Wengert: KIELerLEBT with Holger Henze . In: www.kielerleben.de . falkemedia Stadtmagazine GmbH. October 11, 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b c Once upon a time ... . In: www.club68.de . Gallery Club 68.Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  4. ↑ Close your eyes . In: Der Spiegel . Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG. December. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  5. ↑ Crumbs crumbled . In: Berliner Kurier . Berliner Verlag GmbH. September 6, 2004. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  6. ↑ Werner - Ice cold! In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on June 18, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Henze, Holger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henze, Holgi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German innkeeper, gallery owner, actor and comic book author
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel