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) * ''

Sonnenallee ''Sonnenallee'' (''Sun Avenue'' or ''Sun Alley'') is a 1999 German comedy film about life in East Berlin in the early 1970s. The movie was directed by Leander Haußmann. The film was released shortly before the corresponding novel, '' Am kürzer ...

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

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

Mordshunger ''Mordshunger'' is a 2008 television film directed by Robert Adrian Pejo. It is based on the 1996 German novel of the same name (, 1996) written by Frank Schätzing. Cast In alphabetical order * Christian Blümel as Panne * Michou Friesz as Kri ...

'' (2008, TV film) * ' (2008) * ' (2009) * '' Lila, Lila'' (2009) * ''

Young Goethe in Love ''Young Goethe in Love'' (originally titled ''Goethe!'') is a 2010 German historical drama film directed by Philipp Stölzl and starring Alexander Fehling, Miriam Stein, and Moritz Bleibtreu. It is a fictionalized version of the early years of t ...

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

Jesus Loves Me "Jesus Loves Me" is a Christian hymn written by Anna Bartlett Warner (1827–1915). The lyrics first appeared as a poem in the context of an 1860 novel called ''Say and Seal'', written by her older sister Susan Warner (1819–1885), in whic ...

'' (2012) * ' (2013) * ' (2013) * '' The Interpreter of Silence'' (2023)

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