Jörg Hube

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Jörg Hube, 2007

Jörg Hube (born November 22, 1943 in Neuruppin ; † June 19, 2009 in Munich ) was a German actor , director and cabaret artist .

Life

Jörg Hube was born in Brandenburg and grew up in Dießen am Ammersee and in Munich.

Jörg Hube as Herzkasperl, 2007

“His mother was a single parent and gave little Jörg to the home when he was three years old. In moving letters from children, he asks that she pick him up there. As a schoolboy, Hube was noticeable for his insubordination. He had to change schools again and again, for example because he had insulted his teachers. Injustice could make him really angry all his life, he didn't want people to be deceived. "

He left high school before graduating from high school and learned the art of acting at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich and at the Salzburg Mozarteum . From 1984 he taught himself at the Falckenberg School and directed it from spring 1991 to summer 1993.

His first engagement took him from 1968 to 1969 at the Stadttheater Trier , where he played the leading role in Heinrich von Kleist's Prince von Homburg . From there he moved back to Munich to the Kammerspiele and later to the Bavarian State Theater . Together with Helmut Ruge , Hube formed the cabaret Die Hammersänger from 1971 to 1973 . From 1973 to 1975 he played at the Munich Theater der Jugend . Finally, Hube developed - together with his wife Elisabeth Fanderl (a daughter of the musician, folk music curator and folk song collector Wastl Fanderl ) - the character of Herzkasperl , which was to become his star role and with whom he started in the cabaret programs Herzkasperls Altstadtfunk , Herzkasperls Salto Normale , Herzkasperls from 1975 Abermakaber as well as Herzkasperl's Biograffl and Herzkasperl's Her- und Hinführung (2003) shone. At the Jubiläumswiesn for the 200th birthday of Oktoberfest 2010, a traditional beer tent was named Herzkasperl Festzelt in honor of Jörg Hube's historic Oktoberfest .

Further guest appearances on various German theaters followed, for example in 1977 as Danton in Danton's death at the Gandersheim Cathedral Festival and in 1980 in Heidelberg as mayor in Gogol's Der Revisor . From 1973 Hube appeared regularly at the Münchner Kammerspiele. The theater critics especially celebrated him as Rabensteiner in Dieter Dorn's production of Peter Weiss ' The New Trial and as Edgar in Franz Xaver Kroetz ' Not Fish Not Meat (both 1983).

He gained first fame among the television audience in 1981 as the main character in the television series The Bailiff, produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk . In 1982 he played in Michael Verhoeven's film Die Weisse Rose with Lena Stolze as Sophie Scholl, the responsible senior government councilor - 23 years later he was also seen as the father of Sophie Scholl in Sophie Scholl - The Last Days . Hube became known nationwide in 1984 through Edgar Reitz's Hunsrück saga Heimat in the role of the engineer Otto Wohlleben, whom the construction of the Reichshöhenstrasse slipped into the Hunsrück and who finally died while defusing an aircraft bomb. As Commissioner Ludwig Grandauer and his son Karl, whom he embodied in different ages, Hube shaped the face of the award-winning BR series Löwengrube , for which he and fellow actor Christine Neubauer , director Rainer Wolffhardt and author Willy Purucker with the Adolf-Grimme in 1992 -Prize was awarded gold.

After his television success with Die Löwengrube , Hube devoted himself increasingly to the chamber plays both as an actor and as a director. Hube was also regularly seen in the Bavarian State Opera in the operetta Die Fledermaus in the role of the prison guard Frosch . His program Sugardaddy , in which he was on stage with his partner Beatrix Doderer and which premiered in 2005, was shown in the Marstall of the Bavarian State Theater and throughout Germany.

Grave cross at Neuhauser Winthirfriedhof

Jörg Hube made a name for himself with a great variety of voices, also as a speaker for radio plays and for the Bavarian radio as well as dedicated readings from the works of Lion Feuchtwanger , Oskar Maria Graf and Karl Kraus .

He played his last role at the side of Stefanie Stappenbeck as the clever detective chief inspector Papen in the police call 110 episode Klick made about the aftermath of an explosives attack on a Bundeswehr convoy in Afghanistan. After Jörg Hube died in June 2009 before the filming of the subsequent Polizeiruf 110 episode Die Lücke, der Teufel LEAKS , the character of Friedl Papen was killed by a bomb explosion at the beginning of the episode. Jörg Hube's role was taken over by a substitute actor .

Jörg Hube lived in Munich and died of pancreatic cancer . He was buried in the Winthirfriedhof in Munich. His estate has been looked after in the Munich literary archive Monacensia since 2011 , which also organizes an exhibition of the estate.

theatre

Further theater roles by Jörg Hube:

Filmography

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ From the text accompanying the TV program Capriccio by Bayerischer Rundfunk on December 8, 2011; see. also "My head is a bomb." - Jörg Hube. An artist's life. Exhibition from December 9, 2011 to June 8, 2012, Monacensia, Munich
  2. ↑ The Herzkasperl festival tent. oktoberfest.de, accessed on December 11, 2011 .
  3. ↑ knerger.de: Jörg Hubes grave
  4. ^ FAZ from January 8, 2011, page 33

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personal data
SURNAME Hube, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuruppin
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 2009
Place of death Munich