Jürgen Henckell

Jürgen A. Henckell, self-portrait, 1972

Jürgen Arnold Henckell (born August 2, 1915 in Hamburg ; † August 4, 2007 in Stühlingen ) was a German painter , graphic artist , writer and cabaret artist .

biography

Jürgen Henckell's father Carl Justus worked for the Hamburger Sparkasse . Jürgen attended elementary school in Knauerstraße for four years and later the Oberrealschule in Eppendorf , where he graduated from the Obersekunda in 1932. In order to develop his drawing talent, he attended the Hanseatic University of Fine Arts from 1932 at the age of 16 . He studied graphics there until 1938 and was a student of Hugo Meier-Thur .

He interrupted his studies for a year and a half to take part in a military sports course in the Trittau camp. He did a year of voluntary labor service in Marne (Holstein) . In 1935 he continued his studies.

Jürgen Henckell was also active as a writer and musically. Even during his studies he received design commissions and a. from the Hamburg Senate and from the Wempe Chronometerwerke . Text jobs for cigarette advertising for gold dollars were added later. He also wrote and drew for the Hamburg press.

In addition to his studies and work, he already appeared as a cabaret artist in 1935 .

Services

After completing his studies, Jürgen, who had already successfully presented himself as a lecturer, worked with other artists in Hans Harbeck's literary cabaret “The Seven Sticklebacks”, Curiohaus , Hamburg. He also worked as a soloist with his own texts and compositions and finally took over the program management (full-time since October 1940) in Hamburg's literary cabaret "Bronzekeller" (until it was closed in 1943 by the police and the Gestapo ). Afterwards engagements and a. in Theo Prosels Munich “ Simpl ”, Adolf Gondrell's “Bonbonniere” and Karl Valentin's “Ritterspelunken” (which was directed by Hans Reintjes), where he finally also became a program designer and director. Willi Schaeffers brought him in 1943 as a piano humorist and conférencier in his Berlin “ Cabaret of Comedians ”. Henckell u. a. worked with Peter Frankenfeld and Georg Thomalla .

cabaret

In 1943 Jürgen Henckell married Annedore Siemann. During this time he was on his cabaret tour of Silesia with the “Bonbonniere”, Munich, whose program management was entrusted to him by Adolf Gondrell. Henckell delighted the audience as a piano humorist, presenter and lyricist. In 1944, however, Munich was bombed out - so he went on tour for months from Munich to Blumberg in the Schwarzwald-Baar district ( Baden-Württemberg ), where he lived until his death.

Encouraged by the years of apprenticeship in the Munich “Bonbonniere”, Jürgen Henckell founded a guest performance director in Schwenningen in autumn 1945 immediately after the Second World War . He created the first southwest German travel cabaret tour on tours , which developed into the cabaret theater: Der Widerspiegel . The actors he engaged included Editha Stoll, Anna Frank, Gebhardt "Eddi" Arendt and Rolf Schimpf .

Appearances

• In 1949 the “Widerspiegel” made a guest appearance at “ Mutter Ey ”, Krefeld, in “Seidenfaden”.
• Until the beginning of 1952 (six years) successful guest performances in the whole Federal Republic, u. a. Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Flensburg, Bonn, Hanover, Stuttgart and Constance. He was extremely successful and created 16 literary-satirical programs from his own pen (as a copywriter , composer , stage designer , actor and director ) and directed a. a. “We're out of line”, “News from the Henckell potty”, “Worlds behind bars”, “On the contrary: from a human perspective!”, “On the wall! March, march! ”,“ Insufficiently flawed ”,“ Go on! Don't stand still! ”,“ Between heart and brain ”,“ Pack your drill pants! ”,“ Reserve has no rest ”(see also“ Kürschner's German Literature Calendar ”, de Gruyter Verlag, Berlin). Monthly guest performances in Werner Finck's “Mausefalle”, Stuttgart; “Small Theater in the Zoo”, Frankfurt; Willi Schaeffers ' “ Kabarett der Komiker ”, Berlin; “Brennessel”, Cologne; Rudolf Schündler's “ Schaubude ”, Munich; as well as in city ​​theaters from Konstanz to Flensburg. In addition, many radio broadcasts (Stuttgart, Heidelberg).

Painter, graphic artist, caricaturist

From 1967 Jürgen Henckell visited the island of Sicily almost every year , which was creatively decisive. This inspired him to create his novels “Weeds of Heaven” and “Awakening in the Twilight”. Then (from 1971) he began to paint and created his impressive Pierrags (stone paintings) and the Sicily Cycle (critical of time).

His works have been shown in solo exhibitions in Hamburg, Berlin, Munich and Singen ; as well as participations in exhibitions in Baden-Württemberg, Switzerland, Austria and France. Some of his works are owned by the federal government, the regional council of Freiburg , the city of Donaueschingen and art collectors in Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. He was entrusted with the graphic design of Blumberger advertising brochures; of posters, brochures and car stickers for the “ Wutachtal Museum Railway ” and for the logo of the Blumberg advertising association. Jürgen Henckell was also commissioned to design in and on public buildings, so he created large murals in the multi-purpose hall of Blumberg-Riedöschingen and a large wall design in the foyer of the Blumberg sports hall.

Volunteer work

In 1971 Jürgen became a founding member of the Artists' Guild in Donaueschingen and served there for several years as a committee member, juror and guild spokesman. He was also a member of the Kunstverein Konstanz. He was also involved in the Internationale Bodensee-Klub e. V., was there in 1975 and 1992 a member of the presidency and until the turn of the millennium head of the West section in the visual arts department. He also taught the VHS courses “Drawing and Painting” for several years .

From 1973 to 1992 Henckell designed around 1000 glossary drawings for the "Albboten", Waldshut. He often signed these with jühe , which was also his abbreviation for newspaper articles. From 1977 until shortly before the end of his life he was the organizer of regional and national Blumberg art exhibitions (the 25th in 2004) and was involved as a juror at numerous other exhibitions. For his active, often voluntary work for culture, Jürgen Henckell was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 1995 by Federal President Roman Herzog .

writer

From 1952 Jürgen Henckell concentrated on working as a freelance writer and graphic artist. Over 20 magazine and newspaper novels have been published. There were also several book novels. From 1962 he worked as a freelancer at Süddeutscher Rundfunk for radio play series.

Pseudonyms Tilo Tilman , Laura Saint-Pierre , Bert Lommer , Ronald Randen , Jorge Aselha , Nikolaus (Nicolas) Monti and Tilman Stark .

Fonts

Books

• 1944 The Black Ship (Kranich Verlag, Berlin)
• 1959 pigeon with dirty wings (Deckerverlag, Stuttgart)
• 1959 Zij zaagen de Dood (Fourteen fell from heaven (1954)) - also translated into Flemish: 1961
• 1960 Return to Paradise (Deckerverlag, Stuttgart) - also translated in Dutch : 1965/66 " Island of Verboden Lists "
• 1968 Weeds of Heaven (Schneekluth Verlag, Munich)
• 1972 Awakening in the Twilight (Goldenes Strandgut) (Zettner Verlag, Darmstadt)

Serial novels

• 1953/54 The Road of the Lost
• 1954 Fourteen fell from the sky ; The man in the moor ; The sins of the fathers
• 1954/55 Fate is called water
• 1955 The double street ; Landing place of the devil
• 1956 It all started on platform 4 ; Go to Venice ; The stolen face ; Black fingers, white vests
• 1957 Petra and the Invisible Man ; The trip to Meersburg
• 1957/58 snakes in paradise
• 1958 Romance at the lake
• 1959 In a year
• 1960/61 call from the depths ; Everyone has to go through his hell

literature

• Almanac 1986 and 1990 of the Schwarzwald-Baar district.
• “Encounter”, sheets of the Amriswil Academy / Switzerland: No. 11, March 1989 and No. 17, September 1995 (cultural workers in the Lake Constance area).

Web links

• At the 26th Blumberg Art Exhibition 2005: Südkurier Online
• On his 90th birthday in 2005: Südkurier Online
• Private memorial site with his works: www.jürgen-henckell.de