Career
That performance earned him a Lola, Germany"s equivalent of an Oscar and critical praise at home and abroad. He was raised in East Berlin, in what was then East Germany. 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." The New York Times said the character, Jaeckie Zucker, "suggests a German Jewish Rodney Dangerfield in his gleeful boorishness." 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.
According to the article he studied drama in Berlin and Magdeburg.