Ein Abend mit HENRY HÜBCHEN - Der KULTURTALK mit Robert Rauh und musikalischer Umrahmung von Günther Fischer
He never aimed to become an actor and he didn't want to end up in Hollywood either. What Henry Hübchen wanted instead was: “To have fun at work.” And for this joy in acting, his audience loves him. In conversation with host Robert Rauh, the renowned actor Henry Hübchen discusses his eventful career – about theater, film, and music. The musical accompaniment for the evening will be provided by singer, musician, and composer Günther Fischer, who composed many film scores for productions with Marlene Dietrich, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Manfred Krug, Robert Mitchum, and Tony Curtis, among others. Henry Hübchen is rarely seen in talk shows, but here he will answer the questions of host, moderator, and author Robert Rauh, who recently published the two books “Fontane's Five Castles” and “Fontane's Women.” The audience can expect a highly entertaining and delightful evening with surprising insights and exciting views from the eventful life of Henry Hübchen.
Henry Hübchen is a native of Charlottenburg, although one would not assume it at first, as he grew up in the eastern part of the city. Henry Hübchen was born in Berlin in 1947 and initially started studying physics before moving to the renowned acting school "Ernst Busch". At the age of 19, he stood in front of the camera for the first time in the DEFA Indian film "The Sons of the Great Bear". He became well-known playing the role of the young Jew Mischa in Frank Beyer's masterpiece "Jakob, the Liar", the only Oscar-nominated DEFA film, alongside Armin Mueller-Stahl and Erwin Geschonneck. From 1974, Hübchen acted under Heiner Müller and Benno Besson at the Berliner Volksbühne, where he and director Frank Castorf garnered attention with productions of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" and became the voice of an entire theater generation. After the reunification, he continued his career but shifted more towards film. He impressed as a melancholic commissioner in the crime series “Polizeiruf 110”, as an alcoholic movie star in Andreas Dresen's “Whisky with Vodka”, or as a crisis-stricken mayor in Leander Haußmann's “Shark Alarm at Müggelsee”. For his role as unemployed former East German sports reporter Jaeckie Zucker in the successful film “Everything for Sugar,” he received the German Film Award as Best Male Actor in 2005. Hübchen's recent film engagements include leading roles in the adaptation of the popular "Känguru Chronicles" directed by Dani Levy and the “Stasi comedy” by Leander Haußmann. Henry Hübchen possesses the rare talent of enhancing any film, making him sought after by directors and producers. Hardly any German actor is as versatile as Henry Hübchen. However, he is never quite satisfied: “Basically, I am my biggest critic.”
What is less known is that Hübchen performed as a singer with the bands “The Continentals” and “Klosterbrüder” on the television show Notenbank and wrote several songs for the band CITY, including the hit Casablanca.
Additionally, in the early 1980s, he was a two-time East German champion in board sailing, as surfing was called in the East. “I still don’t have a life plan – not even a daily plan,” the actor said in an interview, but with this relative aimlessness, he has done “quite well” so far. So there is much to discuss!
Admission: 7:00 PM
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