EIN ABEND MIT HENRY HÜBCHEN - Der KULTURTALK mit Robert Rauh

He never wanted to be an actor, nor did he want to end up in Hollywood. What Henry Hübchen did want, however, was to "have fun at work." And his audience loves him for this joy of acting. The well-known actor Henry Hübchen talks to presenter Robert Rauh about his eventful career - about theater, film and music. The evening will be accompanied by music from the singer, musician and composer Günther Fischer, who has composed numerous film scores for productions with Marlene Dietrich, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Manfred Krug, Robert Mitchum and Tony Curtis, among others. Henry Hübchen is rarely seen on talk shows, but here he answers questions from the host, presenter and author Robert Rauh, who recently published the two books "Fontane's Five Castles" and "Fontane's Women." The audience can look forward to an extremely amusing and entertaining evening with surprising insights and exciting views from Henry Hübchen's eventful life.

Henry Hübchen was born in Charlottenburg, even if you wouldn't immediately suspect it, but he grew up in the east of the city. Henry Hübchen was born in Berlin in 1947 and initially began studying physics before moving to the renowned Ernst Busch acting school.

At the age of 19, he first appeared in front of the camera in the DEFA Indian film "The Sons of the Great Bear". He became known alongside Armin Mueller-Stahl and Erwin Geschonneck as the young Jew Mischa in Frank Beyer's masterpiece "Jakob, the Liar", the only DEFA film to be nominated for an Oscar. From 1974, Hübchen played under Heiner Müller and Benno Besson at the Berlin Volksbühne, where he attracted attention with productions of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" together with artistic director Frank Castorf and became the mouthpiece of an entire theater generation.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he continued his career, but increasingly turned to film. He impressed as a melancholic detective in the crime series "Polizeiruf 110", as an alcoholic film star in Andreas Dresen's "Whisky mit Wodka" and as a crisis-ridden mayor in Leander Haußmann's "Shark Alarm at Müggelsee". For his role as unemployed ex-GDR sports reporter Jaeckie Zucker in the hit film "Alles auf Zucker", he received the German Film Award for Best Actor in 2005. Most recently, Hübchen played leading roles in the film adaptation of the popular "Känguru Chronicles" directed by Dani Levy and in the "Stasi Comedy" by Leander Haußmann. Henry Hübchen has the rare gift of enhancing every film and is therefore very popular with directors and producers. Hardly any other German actor is as versatile as Henry Hübchen. But he is never really satisfied: “Basically, I am my own worst critic.”

What is less well known is that Hübchen appeared as a singer with the bands "The Continentals" and "Klosterbrüder" in the TV show "Notenbank" and wrote several songs for the band CITY, including the hit "Casablanca".

In addition, in the early 1980s he was twice 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," said the actor in an interview, but he said that this relative lack of planning has "worked out pretty well" for him so far. So there's a lot to tell!