Henry Hübchen

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.

Henry Hübchen
Henry Hübchen in Karlovy Vary (2009)
Born	Henry Hübchen (1947-02-20) 20 February 1947 Berlin, Germany
Occupation	actor
Years active	1971–present
Awards	German Film Awards, Best Actor 2005 Alles auf Zucker!

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

• Ein Mann für jede Tonart (1993)
• The Big Mambo (1998)
• Sonnenallee (1999)
• Sass (2001)
• Polizeiruf 110 (2003-2005, TV series, 5 episodes)
• C(r)ook (2004)
• Go for Zucker (2004)
• Lila, Lila (2009)
• Young Goethe in Love (2010)

References

1. IMDB Bio
2. "German Academy Honors its Films", New York Times, April 28 2008
3. Press release on award
4. New Yorker Review
5. Go For Zucker "Can't We All Just Get Along?" New York Times, January 20, 2006
6. "German Vanity Fair bio page". Archived from the original on 2009-02-10. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
7. Hübchen, Henry: Porträt Archived 2008-05-25 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
8. "DPA via Monsters and Critics Germany". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2009-03-26.

External links

• Henry Hübchen on IMDb