Jan Hendriks
January Hendriks (aka Heinz Joachim Hinz, born December 6, 1928 in Berlin, † probably December 13, 1991 ) was a German actor.
Life and work
Hendriks visited the late 1940s, the drama school at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin. First, he was engaged at the Castle Park Theatre under Boleslaw Barlog in Berlin and played first major stage roles. From then on, he moved again to the theater ( inter alia, in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich). Film director Robert A. Stemmle hired him for his film Sinful limit ( 1951), Hendriks debut film. For this film, he was the first actor the German Film Prize for best young actor. In 1952 he played alongside Johanna Matz, directed by Georg Hurdalek in the literary adaptation The large tattoo the lead role. There were other film lead roles.
In 1953 he received a prison sentence for a traffic accident caused by him under the influence of alcohol. This was a brief interruption of his career. After that, the character actor acted in more than fifty major and minor roles in film and television until the mid- 1980s. In 1958, he starred in the multi-award -winning and even for the Oscar - nominated film comedy hero.
Made the headlines in 1959 also an indictment on the basis of the then existing § 175 He was sentenced to a fine. After a serious motorcycle accident he was in a coma for several months in 1963, but was no lasting damage from it.
In the sixties, he was seen in some very successful Edgar Wallace films. In addition, Hendriks worked as a voice actor in the sixties and lent his voice to, inter alia, Humphrey Bogart ( The Petrified Forest), Anthony Quinn ( Guadalcanal - Hell in the Pacific), Robert Stack ( to be or not ) and Robert Stephens ( Cleopatra ). End of the sixties ended his film work. After that, he worked successfully on television and played from 1977 to 1986 alongside Siegfried Lowitz in the TV crime series The old as his assistant burner. Occasionally, he was also engaged to tour theaters, where he appeared in 1988 in his last role.
Hendriks was found on 17 December 1991 in his Berlin apartment dead by police after they had been informed by neighbors. He died alone a few days after his 63rd birthday there and was not discovered until days later. The cause of death the immune deficiency disease AIDS was mentioned in tabloids. In addition, he was diagnosed with diabetes but also for years. But after months of self-imposed isolation Hendriks was starved to death in his apartment. The spread of the tabloids rumor that he was impoverished, was refuted by a six-figure sum of money in his estate.
His grave is located in Berlin -Schöneberg in the cemetery Eythstraße.