An evening with
Henry Hübchen
Henry Hübchen participates in talk shows only very rarely. The actor has made an exception for Neuhardenberg, and will be answering questions about his eventful career – and about the theatre, his films and music – put to him by the host and book author Robert Rauh.
Henry Hübchen was born in the west of Berlin, in the district of Charlottenburg, in 1947, but grew up in the eastern part of the city. He stood in front of the camera for the first time at the age of only nineteen: in the major DEFA production The Sons of Great Bear, a Western from the Native American perspective. He found fame when he played the role of the young Jew Mischa in Frank Beyer's masterpiece Jacob the Liar. At the Berliner Volksbühne, where he and its director Frank Castorf became the voices of a whole theatre generation, Hübchen played under Heiner Müller and Benno Besson. Since the reunification of Germany, he has appeared in numerous films in the cinema and on TV. In 2005, he received the Deutscher Filmpreis as the best leading actor for his performance as Jaeckie Zucker in the film Go For Zucker. 'To this day, I still don't plan my life in the slightest,' the actor once said in an interview, adding that this relative aimlessness 'has served me quite well, so far'.
The evening's musical entertainment will be provided by the musician and composer Günther Fischer, who has written film scores for productions starring Marlene Dietrich, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Manfred Krug, Robert Mitchum and Tony Curtis, for example.
