Paul Henckels

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Paul Henckels (born September 9, 1885 in Hürth , Rhineland ; † May 27, 1967 in Kettwig ) was a German theater and film actor who was often subscribed to comical and peculiar roles with a Rhenish accent. Among his more than 200 film roles include Professor Bömmel in Die Feuerzangenbowle and Dr. In the Immenhof films, one of the most famous.

family

Paul Henckels was the son of Paul Abraham Henckels (1855-1923) and the Jewish actress Cäcilia Warszawska (or Warczawska) (* in Poland, † before March 27, 1909). Paul Henckels was Protestant. His father came from the Solingen cutlery and entrepreneurial family Henckels . His grandfather was Johann Abraham Henckels jun. (1813-1870).

His father had his own business and was also a painter. In 1903 the company went bankrupt and the family moved to Düsseldorf-Oberkassel.

First marriage

Henckels married the actress Cecilia Brie (* 1884 in Breslau, † 1984 in Villa Gesell , Argentina) on March 27, 1909 in Breslau , daughter of the constitutional lawyer Siegfried Brie and Sophia nee Schenkel. Siegfried Brie's parents had converted from Judaism to Protestantism.

There were three children from the marriage: son Timm, later called "Timoteo" (* 1914, † 1993 in Argentina) and daughters Hanna and Anneliese (* 1912). In 1912 the family lived in the garden city of Meererbusch in a villa designed by the architect Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot .

The marriage was divorced on December 23, 1920 by the Düsseldorf Regional Court. In 1921 Cecilie married the painter Eberhard Viegener . Since the divorced parents were away from home a lot for work, their children later visited a school camp, the Free School and Work Community in Letzlingen near Magdeburg, founded by Bernhard Uffrecht . In 1933 the school was closed by the Nazi regime. Although all three children were baptized Catholics, they were now at risk because some of their grandparents were of Jewish origin. On the advice of their father, the siblings each learned a practical occupation in order to be able to emigrate better. Timm completed an apprenticeship as an agricultural assistant on a farm near Zernickow and Anneliese trained as a nurse at the Paulinenhaus in Berlin . Anneliese was the first to emigrate to Argentina in 1936, followed in the same year by her brother Timm. He initially worked in the Villa Gesell colony project , and later for almost 30 years on the “Estancia y Cabaña Orion” farm near Las Rosas , Santa Fe province . In the 1950s, the mother Cecilie also came to the Latin American country. Before the outbreak of war, Hanna had escaped to New Zealand as a maid.

Second marriage

Henckels married his Jewish colleague Thea Grodtczinsky (* 1893 in Düren, † 1978) in his second marriage . This marriage remained childless. In the 1930s the couple lived in Kleinmachnow near Berlin; The architect Egon Eiermann built his house on the vineyard . Most recently, the two lived in the Schlosshotel Hugenpoet near Kettwig. His grave is on the Südfriedhof in Düsseldorf .

Career

Henckels' former home in Kleinmachnow (2013)
Paul-Henckels-Platz, Berlin-Steglitz

Henckels attended the Royal High School in Düsseldorf . With his childhood friends Heinrich Spoerl , Hans Müller-Schlösser and Peter Esser , who later became popular as actors and writers , he took part in school performances and founded the literary reading circle . They rehearsed the student play Alt-Heidelberg and premiered the play secondary love , written by Müller-Schlösser, around 1903 .

After he was one year old , Henckels first became an apprentice in a locomotive factory and worked in his father's steel goods store. He took his first acting lessons from his mother and got his first engagement at the Krefeld City Theater . When Louise Dumont and Gustav Lindemann founded the Theater Academy (later the Hochschule für Bühnenkunst ) and the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf in 1905 in Düsseldorf , he was one of the first students. He attended drama school from 1905 to 1907. The theater director Dumont engaged Henckels for her theater and cast "teenage comic roles" with him. He worked at the Schauspielhaus from 1907 to 1920, also as a dramaturge during the 1910/1911 season, as a stage director and in 1919/1920 alongside Fritz Holl as a theater director . There he led a seminar for facial expressions and gestures, one of his students was Gustaf Gründgens .

In 1921 Henckels was the founder and first director of the Steglitzer Schlosspark Theater in Berlin . From 1936 to 1945 he was engaged at the Prussian State Theater in Berlin under Gründgens. From his film debut in INRI from 1923 until his death, he played in over 230 films, mostly as a supporting actor. He worked with directors such as Helmut Weiss , Fritz Lang , Lupu Pick , FW Murnau , Josef von Sternberg and Arnold Fanck, among others .

Henckels was able to continue working in Germany during National Socialism, even though he was legally considered a " half-Jew ". Here he found help from Gustaf Gründgens , who also protected Henckel's Jewish wife Thea from Nazi threats.

Typical of his roles was his Rhenish accent and the fixation on roles as a weird owl and quirky gentleman. His portrayals of the veterinarian Dr. Pudlich in the Immenhof film series from the 1950s and high school professor Bömmel in Die Feuerzangenbowle :

"Where is it? Aha, today hammer de Dampmaschin. What is a steam machine? Let’s say we’re stupid and say: a Dampmaschin, this is a big, round, black room. In the big, round, black room, it has two holes. There is one hole, the steam comes in, and the other hole, it will come later. What is the steam doing now? The steam that presses on the piston. Wat ne piston is, that chamber net explicate, that is in the book. It's all in the book, what I know, just not so nice. "

In the 1950s and 1960s Henckels also appeared in television programs , for example in The Merry Wine Round with Margit Schramm as the landlady and Willy Schneider as the cellar master, where Henckels was the chair of the regulars' table. In 10 episodes of detention for adults , he portrayed a professor who explained interesting things from music, art and history to four adults in a school class - including the actor Hans Richter known from the Feuerzangenbowle and the cabaret artist Edith Hancke .

Tailor Wibbel

Paul Henckels as Schneider Wibbel at the Schneider-Wibbel-Haus in Düsseldorf

Henckels played the main role of Schneider Wibbel over a thousand times in the play of the same name by his school friend Hans Müller-Schlösser at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . His future wife Thea Grodtczinsky took on the role of Fin, the wife of the tailor Wibbel, in this Rhenish comedy. Up to 1956, both of them had played this piece one thousand five hundred times on various German theaters.

Henckels had already played this role at the premiere in 1913, initially together with Lotte Fuhst as Fin. After around three hundred performances, his colleague left the theater around 1916 and Grodtczinsky, at that time a student at the Hochschule für Bühnenkunst, took on the female lead, although she was at her performance to Dumont said: "I can't speak Rhenish dialect."

Before that, both had played together in William Shakespeare's Storm around 1915 , he the Caliban, she the Miranda.

In 1931 Schneider Wibbel was shot as a film under his direction ; he also took on the title role. After 1945 he spoke the character in two radio play recordings.

Two busts on the Schneider-Wibbel-Haus in Düsseldorf's old town , located on the corner of Bolkerstraße and Schneider-Wibbel-Gasse, have been a reminder of the actor couple in their star role since 1956. The best-known quote from this mistaken comedy, in which the tailor experiences his own funeral, is the sentence by Schneider Wibbel: "Nah, watt I am for a beautiful corpse."

B. Traven is said to have appeared at the premiere in 1913 . He worked from 1913 to 1915 under the name Ret Marut as an actor at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus.

Filmography (selection)

Songs

Radio plays

  • 1939: Call through the airwaves. A game for the radio - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1939: Douaumont - Director: Max Bing
  • 1941: "Landser klönen" - Three soldiers on the Rhine
  • 1941: laughing and crying
  • 1947: What Ladies Like - Director and Narrator: Viktor de Kowa
  • 1947: Schneider Wibbel - Director: Hanns Korngiebel
  • 1948: The fame, like all hoaxes, rarely lasts over a thousand years - Director: Not known
  • 1950: Your heart for me and my dog ​​- Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1950: Der Wunderdoktor - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1950: The Family Day (2 parts) - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1950: Schneider Wibbel (as a Regiolekt radio play) - Director: Karlheinz Schilling
  • 1950: The Engelsdorf heirs - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1950: Romeo and Juliet - adaptation and direction: Edward Rothe
  • 1951: One pays his debt - Director: Karl Peter Biltz
  • 1951: What does a woman cost? - Director: Karl Peter Biltz
  • 1951: The Bishop and the Candlesticks - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1952: who will inherit the kingdom of heaven? - Editing and direction: Peter Hamel
  • 1952: Erasmus in a quiet corner - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1952: The legendary story of the stallion Godolphin Arabian - Director: Eduard Hermann
  • 1952: Radium - Director: Theodor Steiner
  • 1952: The Little Sins - Director: Fränze Roloff
  • 1953: Kleines Genie (also adaptation) - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1955: A Little Lucky Comedy - Director: Unknown
  • 1955: The Trojan War does not take place - Director: Gert Westphal
  • 1955: The Priest and the Robbers - Director: Peter Hamel
  • 1956: Benefit doesn't warm the heart - Director: Detlof Krüger
  • 1957: Five Hundred Drachentaler - Director: Peter Hamel
  • 1958: The stupid gentleman - Director: Detlof Krüger
  • 1959: A Truly Great Man - Directed by Marcel Wall

Directorial work

Works

  • 1956: I wasn't a model boy - wisdom laughing at a life artist , Blanvalet Verlag, Berlin, first edition 1956, 220 pages.
  • 1960: Clear to cloudy. A life-weather report , Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf
  • 1966: All sorts of cheerfulness, wood shavings from the boards that mean the world , Blanvalet Verlag, Berlin

Awards and honors

literature

  • Horst O. Hermanni: Paul Henckels, in Das Film-ABC, Volume 3, Norderstedt 2009, pp. 373–381
  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= The time of National Socialism. Vol. 17153). Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , p. 211.
  • Kurt Loup (editor): Paul Henckels. Special exhibition May 31 - June 27, 1969 in the Dumont-Lindemann-Archive Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1969
  • Felix Moeller: "I am an artist and nothing else". Film stars in propaganda use, in: Hans Sarkowicz, (editor), Hitler's artist. Culture in the service of National Socialism, Frankfurt a. M./Leipzig 2004, pp. 135-175

Web links

Commons : Paul Henckels  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  4. ↑ Ulrich Sackstedt: Amigo Timoteo. From the actor's son to the cattle breeder, in: Weites Grünes Land. Stories of emigrants from Argentina (OutdoorHandbuch), Conrad Stein Verlag GmbH, Welver 2006, ISBN 978-3-86686-193-0
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  6. ↑ side register of the registry office III of Wroclaw, Silesia, marriage certificate no. 216/1909
  7. ^ Corinna Below: A piece of Germany. 49 German-Argentine life stories, Norderstedt 2016, p. 133ff.
  8. ↑ Hubert Rütten: Traces of life - search for traces, Jewish life in the former district of Erkelenz, writings of the Heimatverein der Erkelenzer Lande Volume 22. Erkelenz 2008, pages 206 ff.
  9. ↑ https://vilmoskoerte.wordpress.com/2007/09/01/wohnhaus-paul-henckels-in-kleinmachnow/
  10. ↑ Oliver Ohmann: Heinz Rühmann and "Die Feuerzangenbowle": the story of a classic film .
  11. ↑ https://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Paul+Henckels/0/2746.html
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  14. ^ Hans-Michael Bock: Lexicon Film Actors international . Berlin 1995.
  15. ^ Jacques Schuster: Actor: Gustaf Gründgens, the devil's director. In: welt.de . February 18, 2013, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  16. ↑ http://krimiserien.heimat.eu/tvs/n/1959nachsitzenfuererwachsene.htm
  17. ↑ https://www.duesseldorf.de/heineinstitut/archiv/vergleichbest/mueller_schloesser_hans.shtml
  18. ↑ https://emuseum.duesseldorf.de/view/objects/asitem/People@17831/29/title-asc?t:state:flow=c5a52218-d582-43c4-b44e-336e511652a8
  19. ↑ https://emuseum.duesseldorf.de/view/objects/asitem/People@17831/36/title-asc?t:state:flow=609f50a8-b00f-4ae5-b6a5-a135feab28cf
  20. ↑ https://emuseum.duesseldorf.de/view/objects/asitem/People@17831/3?t:state:flow=121a6816-e822-4d55-be86-70b7b225beb9
  21. ^ Carl von Ossietzky : Schloßpark Theather Berlin-Steglitz. Opening performance "Timon", Berliner Volks-Zeitung May 14, 1921, in: Schriften 1911 - 1921 (complete edition)
personal data
SURNAME Henckels, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Huerth , Rhineland
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1967
Place of death Dusseldorf