Charles M. Huber

Charles Muhamed Huber ( born December 3, 1956 in Munich, Karl -Heinz Huber ) is a German actor, writer and politician. He became known through the television series The Old. In the general election in 2013 he was elected for the CDU in the German Bundestag.

Origin and family

Huber was born the illegitimate son of the Senegalese diplomat Jean -Pierre Faye (nephew of former President of Senegal, Leopold Sedar Senghor and philosophers ) and the German domestic workers Olga Huber in Munich. He grew up mostly with his maternal grandmother, and met his father until the age of 28 know. Huber trained as a dental technician before he began an acting career, a policy advisor in public. His stage name is Charles Muhamed. The choice of name is a reminder of his childhood in which he was nicknamed Charles, as well as an expression of sympathy to Muhammad Ali. In his 2004 release autobiography A Niederbayer in Senegal Huber describes his childhood as Afro German who grew up with his grandmother in the 1960s in Großköllnbach (market Pilsting district of Dingolfing -Landau ), his youth in Munich and his difficult relationship with the African part of his origin. In 2004 he was admitted to the Swiss German PEN Centre.

Charles Huber is married and has four children. He is an honorary commissioner of the Bavarian police.

Career as an actor

Huber began his acting career in Munich cellar theaters. As the first series performer of African descent outside the U.S., he reached fame through the German crime series in 120 countries The old man, in which he 1986 to 1997 the Police Commissioner Henry Johnson embodied, after he had a year earlier played a guest role. In addition, he worked among other things in the movies Kolp, Enemy Mine, Erkan & Stefan, Grandma is dead and last dance with. 1996 Huber played (next to Anna Nicole Smith) in the American movie Skyscraper with.

In 1999, he joined the New York Film Academy from his directing course. His graduation film, the short film The Arrival, was shown at the Hof International Film Festival 1999. In 2004, he starred in the stage play Miss Daisy, 2010, he took over the lead role of the musical Mandela.

Commitment to Africa

Huber went public in 1996 after his departure from the ZDF series The Old to Ethiopia, where he worked as a consultant for the Ministry of Tourism. The textual content of the Ethiopian Pavilion at the Expo 2000 in Hanover with more than 1.3 million visitors come from him and his wife Shobha. Since early 2000, Huber has worked as advisor to various federal departments and as a part-time consultant to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN ( FAO), was in foreign policy working groups initially the SPD and then at the CSU and advises companies that seek to enter the African market.

In 2002, he founded the organization Africa Direct eV, which supports, among other artists, young people and those in need in Senegal, but also young people and socially disadvantaged children from Germany, for example, from the orphanage Munich, invites to Senegal. In 2006, he campaigned for the improved integration of African athletes in professional football and brought the Senegalese president to Munich.

Political activities

Politically interested Huber was since his youth and was until 2004 the SPD. Since then he is close to the opposition parties. In the 2009 federal election campaign Huber supported the CSU, among others, television appearances, and created three Internet television spots for Chancellor Angela Merkel. In the general election in 2013, he joined the CDU as a direct candidate in the constituency Darmstadt after the first CSU - with intercession Edmund Stoiber - in München-Ost had wanted to run for office. A selection committee at the former Hesse Minister of Culture Karin Wolff had called for Huber. For the election campaign, he moved from Munich to Seeheim- Jugenheim, and in order to compete for the constituency can, he exchanged his CSU book against the CDU. On October 30, 2012 was set up with 94 percent approval as a candidate for the Bundestag Charles M. Huber of the CDU Darmstadt. Huber was defeated in the general election on 22 September 2013 as the candidate for the former Federal Minister of Justice Brigitte Zypries (SPD ) with 63,400 to 65,812 votes. The entry into Parliament he still managed just over the 19th place on the Hessian CDU state list.

On 2 March 2014, the Darmstadt CDU Huber announced on cooperation and accused him of lack of presence in the constituency. Huber, however, lamented the lack of support by the CDU.

Publications

• A low Bayer in Senegal. My life between two worlds. Joke, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3-502-18339-2; Fischer -Taschenbuch -Verlag, Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 3-596-16271-8.