Henry Hübchen
Henry Hübchen | |
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 Henry Hübchen in Karlovy Vary (2009) | |
| Born | Henry Hübchen 20 February 1947 Berlin, Germany |
| Occupation | actor |
| Years active | 1971–present |
| Awards | German Film Awards, Best Actor 2005 Alles auf Zucker! |
Henry Hübchen (born 20 February 1947 in Berlin)[1] is a German actor who played the title character in the award-winning 2004 film Go for Zucker. That performance earned him a Lola, Germany's equivalent of an Oscar,[2] and critical praise at home and abroad.[3] He was raised in East Berlin, in what was then East Germany.
Praise for Zucker[]
Critic David Denby praised his performance in Zucker, writing "veteran German theater and film actor Henry Hübchen gives this middle-aged rogue a Bellovian gusto. Hübchen has the eyes of a gentle bull and a teenager's manic energy."[4] The New York Times said the character, Jaeckie Zucker, "suggests a German Jewish Rodney Dangerfield in his gleeful boorishness."[5]
Other work and background[]
In an August 2004 profile, German public broadcaster Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk said Hübchen is best known in Germany for a role on the long-running television series Polizeiruf 110. The profile says that before coming to film, he was a failed physics student, wrote songs for the East German rock group City and was twice East German windsurfing champion (in 1980 and 1981).[6]
According to the article he studied drama in Berlin and Magdeburg.[7] He won the Berlin Theater Award (Theaterpreis Berlin) in 2000.[8]
He has two daughters, Theresa and Franziska, with his wife Sanna Hübchen.[6]
Selected filmography[]
- (1993)
- The Big Mambo (1998)
- Sonnenallee (1999)
- (2001)
- Polizeiruf 110 (2003-2005, TV series, 5 episodes)
- (2004)
- Go for Zucker (2004)
- Lila, Lila (2009)
- Young Goethe in Love (2010)
References[]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Henry Hübchen. |
- ^ IMDB Bio
- ^ "German Academy Honors its Films", New York Times, April 28 2008
- ^ Press release on award
- ^ New Yorker Review
- ^ Go For Zucker "Can't We All Just Get Along?" New York Times, January 20, 2006
- ^ Jump up to: a b "German Vanity Fair bio page". Archived from the original on 2009-02-10. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
- ^ Hübchen, Henry: Porträt Archived 2008-05-25 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
- ^ "DPA via Monsters and Critics Germany". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
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- German male film actors
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- 20th-century German male actors
- 21st-century German male actors
- Male actors from Berlin
- Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni
- German Film Award winners