Henry Hübchen (born 20 February 1947 in Berlin) is a German actor who played the title character in the award-winning 2004 film '' Go for Zucker''. That performance earned him a

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, Germany's equivalent of an

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, and critical praise at home and abroad. He was raised in East Berlin, in what was then

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Praise for ''Zucker''

Critic

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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." The ''New York Times'' said the character, Jaeckie Zucker, "suggests a German Jewish Rodney Dangerfield in his gleeful boorishness."

Other work and background

In an August 2004 profile, German public broadcaster

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said Hübchen is best known in Germany for a role on the long-running television series ''

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''. The profile says that before coming to film, he was a failed physics student, wrote songs for the East German rock group

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and was twice East German windsurfing champion (in 1980 and 1981). According to the article he studied drama in Berlin and

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. He won the Berlin Theater Award ('' Theaterpreis Berlin'') in 2000. He has two daughters, Theresa and Franziska, with his wife Sanna Hübchen.

Selected filmography

* ' (1993) * '' The Big Mambo'' (1998) * ' (1999, TV film) * ''

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'' (1999) * ' (2001) * ''

'' (2003–2005, TV series, 5 episodes) * ' (2004) * '' Go for Zucker'' (2004) * '' Mordshunger'' (2008, TV film) * ' (2008) * ' (2009) * ''

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'' (2009) * ''

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'' (2010) * ' (2011) * ' (2012)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hubchen, Henry Living people 1947 births German male film actors German male television actors 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