Jürgen Hilbrecht

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Jürgen Hilbrecht (born December 21, 1942 in Berlin-Johannisthal ) is a German actor and director as well as singer , cabaret artist and entertainer , who was best known as a Berlin folk actor and interpreter of folk music with a " Berliner Schnauze ". His star role is Captain von Köpenick .

Life

Jürgen Hilbrecht completed his professional training as an electrician and worked as an amateur in artistic fields such as ballet , speaker circles , amateur theater and film circles. From 1961 he studied at what is now the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in East Berlin . In 1966 Hilbrecht had his first engagement as an actor in Leipzig and subsequently also took on his first directorial work. Other stations included Halle, Greifswald, Frankfurt an der Oder, Brandenburg, the Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin and Hanover. He also had several guest appearances as an actor and director as well as film and television works and was active as a voice actor.

His repertoire includes the roles of Faust and Mephisto in Goethe's Faust , Theobald Mask in Carl Sternheim's Die Hose , Hauptmann von Köpenick in Carl Zuckmayer's tragic comedy Der Hauptmann von Köpenick and Truffaldino in Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters . In the musical theater division , he appeared in plays such as the operetta Der Vogelhändler , the Singspiel Im white Rößl and the musical My Fair Lady .

From 1976 he committed himself to work as an informal employee at the district office of the Ministry for State Security in Brandenburg. He denounced u. a. the actors Achim Wolff and Renate Krößner and the director Herbert König. However, this did not become publicly known until the beginning of July 2020 after Berlin tabloids had reported on Hilbrecht's involvement in the secret service.

Jürgen Hilbrecht lives in Berlin-Köpenick .

Revival of the Cöpenick City Theater

After the fall of the Wall in the GDR and German reunification , Hilbrecht was involved from 1991 to 1995 as part of an AB measure for a revitalization of the Cöpenick City Theater . He built an ensemble in the Berlin district of Köpenick , which became world famous through the deed of the shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt , the captain of Köpenick in the then city of Cöpenick (near Berlin) , which was supposed to maintain the tradition of the Berlin folk theater . The opening took place in April 1992 with the performance of humoresques under the title Wat does the Berliner in the ballroom of the Köpenick town hall ; the first programmatic theater production was The Backbencher in 1993, directed by Rainer Gohde .

The program included "old Berlin humoresques", several children's fairy tales, Reutter evenings with Hilbrecht and comedic appearances by Hans-Joachim Preil . The project failed mainly for financial reasons; regular performance was resumed in September 1994 in the Kunstfabrik Köpenick , which took over the ensemble and has since been the sponsor of today's Stadttheater Cöpenick .

Parade role as Der Hauptmann von Köpenick

Bronze statue of the captain of Köpenick in front of the Köpenick town hall

Hilbrecht reoriented itself since 1995 and dealt with cabaret as well as animator and entertainer activities. He developed entertainment programs that deal with the history of Berlin and Köpenick as well as with the character of the captain von Köpenick and his Köpenickiade .

He embodied the role of the "charming rascal" ( Hilbrecht ) at the historical "Tatort" in Berlin-Köpenick and brought the world-famous history of the cobbler Wilhelm Voigt closer to tourists and those interested in history with a lot of personal commitment. Since then Hilbrecht has given "Berliner Schmiss & Charme" as Hauptmann von Köpenick, in some cases over 290 events a year, took on representative tasks and appeared, among other things, in the role of "ID figure" for Berlin-Köpenick at trade fairs in the tourism industry.

He developed several cabaret programs for the character, such as 2004 Ein (Haupt) –mann für alle Fall, or Willi im Wunderland as well as 2005 stir yourselves! using texts by Otto Reutter and Klaus Dannegger (including in-house author of the Leipziger Pfeffermühle cabaret ). The permanent place of performance from 1995 was the stage of the Ratskeller Köpenick in the town hall of Köpenick.

One evening the well-known television authors Felix Huby and Hans Münch saw him and were so impressed by him that they wrote a new play about the life of the shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt for the 100th anniversary of the Köpenickiade in 2006.

The play entitled Das Schlitzohr von Köpenick - Schuster, Hauptmann, Vagabund was preceded by extensive historical research and a number of previously little or not known details and episodes from the “real” life of the main character flowed into its plot. The “Cabinet Piece for an Actor with 15 Roles” premiered in October 2006 ; Rainer Gohde directed. The place of performance was initially the theater of the Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Berlin-Köpenick, further performances were and will take place on the stage in the Ratskeller Köpenick and in the old ballroom in Berlin-Friedrichshagen .

"Since then, the 'Captain von Köpenick' has been Hilbrecht's parade role" ( Berliner Morgenpost ).

Cabaret and cabaret programs

In addition to his “star role” as a captain actor, which he often “quotes” in his other appearances, Hilbrecht developed several cabaret and cabaret programs from 1995 onwards. For example, to his Reutter evening Nehm'n Sie 'n Alten in 1994, the cabaret evening Ein Mann für alle Fall ( A man for all cases) with texts by Klaus Dannegger was added, and in November 2008 cabaret by Reutter and Dannegger with the "current" title Money governs the world .

In October 2008 he had an appearance in the Berlinrevue by Mark Scheibe in the Berlin Admiralspalast , where “twenty to forty year olds, who were more geared towards electronic sounds, suddenly lay at the feet of the rustic singer with his couplets by Otto Reutter” ( Berliner Morgenpost ) and “the hall raged ”( Der Tagesspiegel ).

Since the beginning of 2009 Hilbrecht has been performing in the Admiralspalast in Berlin-Mitte with his own singing show with Berlin songs and stories, including singing chansons by Paul Lincke and songs by Otto Reutter, telling stories and telling stories from the past Berlin at the turn of the century and the Reported years between the wars. For his monthly series of shows entitled Das ist die Berliner Luft! he invites guests and “Berlin originals ”.

Discography (selection)

  • New Köpenicker songs ,
  • Take an old one. Songs by Otto Reutter , album, CD, J. Silver / Bellaphon, Berlin 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Cf. Vita Jürgen Hilbrecht on Jürgen Hilbrecht's website (see web links).
  2. ↑ Thomas Wieck: Director: Herbert König - About the art of staging in the GDR. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2019 ISBN 978-3-95749-198-5
  3. ↑ Thomas Loy: Late Stasi disclosure: Captain actors spied on theater colleagues. In: tagesspiegel.de . July 6, 2020, accessed July 17, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Cöpenick City Theater. It started with a sway . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 27, 2009.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Ulrike Borowczyk: "Berliner Luft". Jürgen Hilbrecht presents something rustic again . In: Berliner Morgenpost , March 2, 2009.
  6. ↑ Internet presence of the Stadttheater Cöpenick >> About us >> History (accessed on August 31, 2009).
  7. ↑ Stage program for the Hauptmannjahr. “Das Schlitzohr von Köpenick” ( Memento from September 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), information on the website of the City of Berlin (accessed on September 1, 2009).
  8. ↑ The Hauptmann von Köpenick stage website (accessed September 1, 2009).
  9. ↑ a b People's actor Jürgen Hilbrecht. With a heart and a schnauzer . In: Tagesspiegel , January 13, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Hilbrecht, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folk actor, director, singer, cabaret artist and entertainer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Johannisthal