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years after the war. So, at 11, 1 started to
support my family, doing all the chores of
a man. I learned a lot in a hurry.
"My younger sister Heidi caught ty
phoid. Since the hospitals didn't serve
food to patients, we had to provide for her
ourselves. I remember coming back from
the country on the train one day, my ruck
sack packed with liverwurst for Heidi. I
told the people on the train how much she
needed food. That's why I was doubly
shocked when the man next to me stole
the liverwurst. But later I forgave him; I
felt he must have been terribly hungry to
do such a thing, and I knew what it meant
to be hungry."
Horst and his family lived almost en
tirely by bartering with peasants in the
country surrounding Berlin. The toughest
part was escaping the gangs of thieves
seeking food.
"If the trains were crowded, which they
usually were, I learned to ride on the roof
or on the steps or tie myself onto the door,"
Horst said. "Very often, when the trains
came to a bend and had to slow down,
gangs rushed up to tear our sacks away.
Later the police confiscated goods as well."
The need for money to help support his
family was the prime motive that
pushed Horst into the theater. "I never
wanted to be an actor," he insists.
"I went to school from 8 a. m. to noon,
dubbed films till 6 or 6 p. m., and had a
quick bite at a canteen before going to the
radio station where I sometimes worked
until 4 a. m.," he recalls. "Then I went
home, slept, had breakfast, and was back
in school at 8 the next morning. I quit
school two years before I would have
graduated and enrolled in a drama school."
When Horst was 17, he left his family's
home in East Berlin and moved to West
Berlin. "In West Berlin they paid more
money for the same work I did in East
Berlin," he explained. His sympathy wasn't
exactly with the East German regime,
either, but like many of his countrymen
who have relatives in the Soviet-controlled
This broodingly handsome
actor has achieved fame,
wealth, and a happy home
life yet he is haunted
by memories of growing
up in the ruins of war
sector, he refuses to be drawn into political
talk at least for publication.
Horst first drew wide attention to him
self in a German film, "The Half-Strong
Ones," a study of postwar youth who grew
up trading in the black market, roaring
around on motorcycles, and dancing rock
V roll. As a result, Buchholz became the
hero of Germany's beatniks.
Horst made his American film debut
as one of the leads in "The Magnificent
Seven," in which he was miscast as a
Western hero. But the West intrigued
Horst, and he still watches every Western
movie he can. For a while it influenced his
manner of dress as well. It was not un
usual for him to cruise around in his con
vertible wearing denims and a 10-gallon
hat, but he rebelled when the studio tried
to Westernize his name to Buck Holz.
MUCH op Horst's appeal is due to the
mtenseness that characterizes his
performances as well as his private life.
He never does anything halfway.
Not long ago we attended a party at the
home of a mutual friend. Horst soon found
himself a chess partner, and for the rest
of the evening he was oblivious to every
one and everything, including his wife
Myriam, who has grown used to this.
Horst met the former Myriam Bru when
they appeared together in a German-Italian
film. After a brief romance, he called her in
Rome from London, where he was working
on the film, "Tiger Bay."
"I feel lonely without you," he told her.
She promptly alleviated this condition by
flying to England, and Horst proposed the
next day. They now have two children, a
son, Christopher, 1, and a daughter, Bea
trice, eight weeks old.
Although Horst's salary per film has
climbed above the $100,000 mark, he read
ily admits that he lives far beyond his
means. "I don't throw money out the win
dow," he insists, "but I don't want to hang
onto it, either. Maybe because I subcon
sciously feel that nothing including life
itself is very secure these days."
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