Jan Hendriks

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Jan Hendriks (real name Heinz Joachim Hinz ; * December 6, 1928 in Berlin ; † probably December 13, 1991 there ) was a German actor and voice actor .

life and work

Hendriks visited in the late 1940s, the drama school of the Hebbel Theater in Berlin. First he was engaged at the Schlosspark-Theater under Boleslaw Barlog in Berlin and played his first major theater roles. From then on he was drawn to the theater again and again (including in Berlin, Hamburg , Munich). The film director Robert A. Stemmle hired him for his film Sinful Frontiers (1951), Hendrik's debut film. For this film, he was the first actor to receive the German Film Award for Best Young Actor . In 1952 he played the leading role alongside Johanna Matz under the direction of Georg Hurdalek in the literary film The Great Zapfenstreich . Further film leading roles followed.

In 1953 he received a prison sentence for a traffic accident caused by him under the influence of alcohol. This meant a short break in his career. Afterwards, the character actor acted in over fifty leading and supporting roles in film and television until the mid-1980s. In 1958 he starred in the multi-award-winning and even Oscar-nominated comedy film Helden .

An indictment based on Section 175, which still existed at the time, made headlines in 1959 . He was sentenced to a fine. After a serious motorcycle accident in 1963, he was in a coma for several months , but suffered no permanent damage.

In the 1960s he was seen in a few Edgar Wallace films . In addition, Hendriks worked as a voice actor in the 1960s and lent his voice a. a. Humphrey Bogart ( The Petrified Forest ), Anthony Quinn ( Guadal Canal - Hell in the Pacific ), Robert Stack ( To Be or Not To Be ) and Robert Stephens ( Cleopatra ). His film work ended in the late 1960s. He then worked successfully on television and from 1977 to 1986 played alongside Siegfried Lowitz in the television crime series Der Alte as his assistant Brenner. Occasionally he was engaged in touring theaters, where he appeared in his last role in 1988.

Hendriks was found dead by the police in his Berlin apartment on December 17, 1991, after neighbors had notified them. He died alone there a few days after his 63rd birthday and was only discovered days later. The immunodeficiency disease AIDS was named as the cause of death in tabloids . In addition, he had been suffering from diabetes for years . After months of self-chosen isolation, Hendriks had starved to death in his apartment. The rumor spread by the gossip press that he was impoverished was refuted by a six-figure sum in his estate.

His grave is in Berlin-Schöneberg on the II. Municipal cemetery Eythstrasse .

Filmography

theatre

  • 1950: When the devil cries - Director: Karl Meixner . The grandstand Berlin.
  • 1951: Endstation Sehnsucht - Director: Berthold Viertel . Schloßpark Theater Berlin.
  • 1951: The Dreyfus Affair - Director: Karl Heinz Stroux . Schloßpark Theater Berlin.
  • 1953: Maria Tudor - directed by Curt Goetz-Pflug and Frank Lothar . The grandstand Berlin.
  • 1955: Leihhaus legend - Director: Ottokar Runze . Theater club in the British Center West Berlin.
  • 1956: Picnic - Director: Alexander Welbat . Theater club in the British Center West Berlin.
  • 1956: A Man for Jenny - Director: Peter Preses . Comedy on Kurfürstendamm Berlin.
  • 1957: The pants + A man for Jenny + I need you - Director: John Olden . Tour of South America (Rio de Janeiro / Buenos Aires / Montevideo / Porto Alegre / Sao Paulo).
  • 1959: The Emperor of America - Director: Willi Schmidt . Tour.
  • 1960: Cherie Noire - Director: Peter Ahrweiler . Little Comedy Hamburg.
  • 1961: Clouds Are Everywhere - Director: Harry Meyen . Comedy in the Bayerischer Hof Munich.
  • 1961: Prairie Saloon - Director: Ilo von Janko . The grandstand Berlin.
  • 1961: Heroes - Director: Erik Ode . Comedy on Kurfürstendamm Berlin.
  • 1965: Just no flowers - Director: Carl Heinz Schroth . Comedy in the Bayerischer Hof Munich.
  • 1970: The Boys in the Band - Director: Harald Leipnitz . Theater in Briennerstrasse Munich.
  • 1971: My mother, the general - Director: Joel Silberg. Young Theater Tel Aviv and Theater in Leopoldstrasse Munich.
  • 1972: My mother, the general - Director: Joel Silberg. St. Pauli Theater Hamburg.
  • 1972: My mother, the general - Director: Joel Silberg. Berlin theater.
  • 1972: The Children of Edouard - Director: Christian Wölffer . Theater am Kurfürstendamm Berlin.
  • 1973: Mirandolina - Director: Paul Esser . Hansa Theater Berlin.
  • 1980: Have a nice weekend, Mr. Bennett - Director: Heinz Wilhelm Schwarz . Tour.
  • 1988: The girl at the end of the street - Director: Theodor Grädler . Tour.

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Found dead.
  2. ↑ Jan Hendrik's grave, Schöneberg II cemetery
  3. ↑ Elmar Kraushaar: The homosexual man , taz.de, September 4, 2012
  4. ^ Grave of Jan Hendriks on knerger.de
personal data
SURNAME Hendriks, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hinz, Heinz Joachim (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: December 13, 1991
Place of death Berlin