Anke Engelke

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Anke Christina Engelke (real name: Anke Christina Fischer ; born December 21, 1965 in Montreal , Canada ) is a German comedian , actress , entertainer , singer , voice actress and television presenter .

Life

childhood

Anke Engelke with Fred Kellner and the famous Soulsisters in the Rhein-Mosel-Halle in Koblenz , 2008

Anke Engelke was born in Montreal , Canada in 1965 . Her father was a Lufthansa manager, her mother a foreign language correspondent . She grew up with her sister in three languages ​​( German , English and French ). In 1971 the family moved to Rösrath near Cologne . Engelke attended the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium there and became a member of the Sonntagskinder school choir . In 1975 she appeared with the group in Peter Frankenfeld's TV show Musik ist Trumpf ; the choir accompanied the singer Heino on this television appearance . For the ZDF series Sing mit Heino (1977–1979), of which recordings were also made, she accompanied the pop singer in front of the camera with the children's choir. When the choir accompanied the singer Udo Jürgens on a tour in 1977 , the eleven-year-old was discovered by Radio Luxemburg after a duet with Jürgens for the radio.

The first years in the entertainment business

From 1978 to 1980 she presented the program Moment mal on Radio Luxemburg . In 1979 she sang in the group Manuel & Pony Das Lied von Manuel and appeared on the ZDF hit parade . From 1979 to 1986 she was the presenter of the daily children's programs on the radio exhibition for ZDF ; together with Benny Schnier she moderated the ZDF holiday program . In 1980 she made an appearance at Bio's Bahnhof , which promoted her career. In 1981 the single Anke & Alexis Weissenberg - Lullaby for Adults was released . Engelke broke off her studies in English , Romance studies and education in Cologne.

The radio station SWF in Baden-Baden trained her to be an editor in 1986 , and later she moderated on SWF3 radio programs such as the Pop Shop until 1998 . During this time, she played herself as the SWF3 radio host in the Tatort episode Death in Space . Since 1989, Anke Engelke and her sister Susanne have been singers in the group Fred Kellner and the famous Soulsisters , who perform live for around two to three weeks a year. In this soul band she also met her first husband, the keyboardist Andreas Grimm . From 1993 to 1996 she was a member of the SWF3 comedy ensemble Gagtory .

Career

From 1996 to 2000 Engelke appeared alongside Ingolf Lück , Bastian Pastewka , Marco Rima and later Markus Maria Profitlich in the Sat.1 sketch program Die Wochenshow . In doing so, she proved her versatility in a wide variety of roles, including as Ricky, a parody of the member of the girl's band Tic Tac Toe of the same name . Another production for Sat.1 was the comedy series Anke . The series, in which Ingo Naujoks and Roswitha Schreiner, among others , had fixed roles, played behind the scenes of a fictional talk show and ran from 1999 to 2001. Among other things, she won the German Comedy Award for Best Comedian for her role as fictional talk show host Anke . In addition, the series was nominated in 2001 for the Adolf Grimme Prize .

From 2002 to 2004 she was seen on Sat.1 with the sketch show Ladykracher . The show was nominated for an Emmy in 2003 and received several prizes, including the German Comedy Prize. Since Engelke after the third season other offers - including Anke Late Night , and Ladyland - accepted, made Ladykracher first break until 2008. 2003 she received along with Olli Dittrich for the second series of jointly improvised ZDF television game series Blind Date - Taxi to Schweinau the Grimme Prize with Gold. In December of the same year she lent her voice to the fish lady Dorie in the German dubbed version of the film Finding Nemo . From May 2004, she presented a late night show called Anke Late Night on the former slot of the Harald Schmidt Show , which was discontinued in October 2004.

With a total of seven appearances since 2006, Anke Engelke has been the most frequent guest on Wer wird Millionär? . However, she was never able to answer the million dollar question. In March 2006 Engelke started a comedy series with Ladyland , which initially consisted of four episodes and was continued in 2007 with twelve more.

Since 2007 she lends her voice to the character Marge Simpson in the animated series The Simpsons on ProSieben . She thus succeeded the actress Elisabeth Volkmann, who died in July 2006 . The first Simpsons episode with Engelke as a narrator was A Perfect Gentleman on January 21, 2007. Since September 2007, she has been part of the preschool children's television series Die Sendung mit dem Elefanten . In the television series Kommissarin Lucas she plays the younger sister of the inspector played by Ulrike Kriener . She also parodied in December 2007 and 2009 together with Bastian Pastewka in Merry Christmas! - Various TV shows with Wolfgang & Anneliese . In 2008 she played the mother of one of the three main characters in the cinema comedy Naughty Girls . A year later she was the presenter at the presentation of the European Film Prize in Bochum .

In May 2011 she moderated the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf together with Stefan Raab and Judith Rakers . In October 2011 she won the German Television Award in Cologne in the category "Best Entertainment Show of the Year" (together with Raab and Rakers for the moderation mentioned) and in the category "Best Comedy" for Ladykracher . In May 2012 she was part of the five-member German jury for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku . As the jury spokesperson, she announced the German voting results in the final. Engelke was the only one of the 42 jury speakers to use the audience's attention to draw attention to the human rights situation in Azerbaijan . During the live broadcast of the awarding of points from Germany, she said in English: “Nobody could vote for their own country tonight. But it is good to vote and it is good to have a choice. Good luck on your trip, Azerbaijan. Europe looks at you ”. She received widespread media approval for her critical words.

Also in 2012 she moderated the presentation of the Fairtrade Awards . From July 2013 to November 2015 she hosted the talk show Anke hat Zeit on WDR television . Since 2013 she can also be seen in the Sowas wie ... series. In the report series, she speaks to people and thus approaches a specific topic. So far, the episodes Sowas wie Glück (2013), Sowas wie perfect (2016) and Sowas wie Angst (2017) have appeared.

family

In 1994 Anke Engelke married the keyboard player Andreas Grimm, with whom she had a daughter born in 1996 . The marriage was divorced in May 2005. In 2000 she was in a relationship with the TV presenter Niels Ruf for a few months and until March 2003 with Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre for four years . On December 21, 2005 - her 40th birthday - she married the musician Claus Fischer , who is the father of their two sons, who were born in July 2005 and January 2009. She took her husband's family name, but continues to use the Engelke name. The couple's split became known in May 2015. Anke Engelke lives in Cologne.

Social and scientific commitment

Since 2003 she has been an ambassador for the German drug aid organization action medeor . As part of this commitment, she visited health projects to fight malaria in various African countries, including Tanzania and most recently in Malawi in 2017. She appeared several times for action medeor in the celebrity edition of the quiz show “ Who will be a millionaire? " on.

She is also a visiting lecturer at the Art Academy for Media Cologne for the creative television production department, where she has been teaching since 2010.

Filmography (selection)

Anke Engelke at the Berlin Film Festival, 2010

Moderation, comedy and reportage

Film actress

Voice actress

Video games

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Ladykracher Vol. 1
  DE 64 10/21/2002 (4 weeks)
Ladykracher Vol. 2
  DE 69 10/06/2003 (3 weeks)
Ladykracher Vol. 3
  DE 65 07/05/2004 (2 weeks)

Radio plays

  • 1999: Tarzan as Jane
  • 2001: The little polar bear as mother polar bear
  • 2003: Finding Nemo as Dory
  • 2005: The little polar bear 2 - The mysterious island
  • 2006: Death and the Devil as Richmodis von Weiden
  • 2006: Oh, how beautiful is Panama
  • 2007: The Wanker as Doris Dubinsky
  • 2008: Urmel from on the move as a pig
  • 2008: Tod und Teufel (special edition) as Richmodis von Weiden
  • 2012: my blood is boiling! as a narrator
  • 2013: The jungle book as a narrator
  • 2016: The Simpsons : The original radio play for the TV series (The Simpsons complete season 23) , Edel: Kids (Edel)

Audio books

Fonts

  • The richest man in the world , told and illustrated by Anke Engelke, Carlsen, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-551-05200-1 (= Pixi books , no. 1805, Everyone loves Pixi ).

Awards

Star by Anke Engelke on the Boulevard der Stars in Berlin

Anke Engelke has received a number of awards for her achievements in German television entertainment.

  • 1999
    • Adolf Grimme “Special” Prize for exceptional performance as a member of a sketch ensemble
    • Golden Camera "Audience Award" for her performance as an actress in the television series Die Wochenshow
    • Goldene Rose von Montreux (together with the Die Wochenshow team)
    • Golden Romy for the “best program idea” together with the ensemble of Die Wochenshow
    • Bambi for her comedy achievements
    • German Comedy Award in the "Best Comedy Show " category for Die Wochenshow (as a team member)
  • 2000
    • German Comedy Award as "Best Comedian" (audience award)
  • 2001
    • German Comedy Award for “Best Comedian” for Anke
  • 2002
    • German Comedy Award for “Best Comedian” for Ladykracher
    • German Comedy Award in the “Best Comedy Show” category for Ladykracher
    • German television award in the “Best Comedy” category for Ladykracher
    • Miss TV June 2002 (4fans)
    • Gold record for the video album Ladykracher Vol. 1
  • 2003
    • German Comedy Award in the “Best Sketch Show” category for Ladykracher
    • German Comedy Award in the category "TV Feature Film Audience Award"
    • Bavarian TV Prize together with Olli Dittrich for Blind Date: Taxi to Schweinau
    • Adolf Grimme Prize with gold together with Olli Dittrich for Blind Date: Taxi to Schweinau
    • Eins Live Krone in the category "Best Comedy"
    • Bravo Otto in silver
  • 2004
    • Rose d'Or in the “Best Comedy Actress” category for Ladykracher
  • 2005
    • Rose d'Or in the “FRAPA Scripted Format Prize” category for Ladykracher
  • 2006
    • German Comedy Award in the “Best Comedy” category for Ladyland
  • 2007
    • German Comedy Award in the "Best Actress" category
  • 2008
    • Adolf Grimme Prize in the “Entertainment” competition together with Bastian Pastewka for the leading role in Merry Christmas! - with Wolfgang & Anneliese
    • Bavarian TV Prize for a Merry Christmas! - with Wolfgang & Anneliese (together with Bastian Pastewka)
    • German Comedy Award in the “Best Comedy Event” category for a Merry Christmas! - with Wolfgang & Anneliese (together with Bastian Pastewka)
  • 2009
    • German Comedy Award in the “Best Sketch Show” category for Ladykracher
  • 2010
    • German Comedy Award in the “Best Sketch Show” category for Ladykracher
    • German Comedy Award in the “Best Comedy Event” category for a Merry Christmas! - with Wolfgang & Anneliese (together with Bastian Pastewka)
  • 2011
  • 2014
  • 2016

literature

Web links

Commons : Anke Engelke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anke Engelke. In: brainpool.de. Retrieved March 27, 2011 .
  2. ↑ a b ESC 2011: Moderators have been determined. In: eurovision.de. December 16, 2010, accessed March 21, 2011 .
  3. ^ Peter Frankenfeld - Music is Trumps (Volume 6) 1975 November 15, 1975, accessed on November 23, 2015
  4. ↑ The first TV appearances of your stars: Anke Engelke ( Memento from August 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Anja Popovic: Anke Engelke has a large suitcase in Berlin. In: Welt Online . December 27, 2003, accessed March 19, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Christoph Koch: How do you actually become a comedian, Anke Engelke? In: FAZ Hochschulanzeiger. April 27, 2004, accessed March 19, 2011 (interview).
  7. ↑ Marc Felix Serrao: "They are so brave, so stupid over there!" In: Der Tagesspiegel . January 6, 2007, accessed March 19, 2011 (interview).
  8. ↑ Who awarded the points from Germany? Eurovision / NDR, May 27, 2012, accessed on May 27, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Anke Engelke saves the honor of the Grand Prix. Welt Online , May 27, 2012, accessed May 27, 2012 .
  10. ↑ Anke Engelke shows Alijew his teeth with a smile ( Memento from June 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Loreen and Anke - the heroines of Baku. stern.de , May 27, 2012, accessed on May 27, 2012 .
  12. ↑ Greetings for the anniversary ( memento of December 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), TransFair anniversary special, accessed on July 13, 2013
  13. ↑ WDR ends "Anke has time". In: stern.de. October 2, 2015, accessed December 6, 2017 .
  14. ↑ a b Something like fear - A search with Anke Engelke. In: ankeengelke.de. Retrieved December 6, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Anke Engelke: Separation from Niels Ruf. In: Spiegel Online . December 17, 2000, accessed March 17, 2011 .
  16. ↑ Stuckrad-Barre accuses Engelke of treason. In: Spiegel Online . June 4, 2004, accessed January 29, 2012 .
  17. ↑ Anke Engelke became a mom. In: T-Online . February 16, 2009, accessed March 17, 2011 .
  18. ↑ Engelke's wedding: Anke is now called Fischer. In: Spiegel Online. January 25, 2006, accessed March 17, 2011 .
  19. ↑ Anke Engelke - Separation! In: stern.de. May 12, 2015, accessed May 15, 2015 .
  20. ↑ Ambassador Anke Engelke. Accessed June 30, 2020 (German).
  21. ↑ My trip through Malawi. Retrieved June 30, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Anke at "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Accessed June 30, 2020 (German).
  23. ↑ khm.de: Anke Engelke Live On Air ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  24. ↑ Thanks Anke! Christmas 1998-2003 , accessed January 18, 2012.
  25. ↑ New WDR talk show Anke has time with Anke Engelke In: SPON , July 25, 2013
  26. ↑ Chart sources: DE
  27. ↑ Manuel Brug: A baby cry as a musical theme. In: Welt Online. Axel Springer AG, July 14, 2008, accessed April 6, 2011 .
  28. ↑ Franck Band: Smells. Discogs , Cologne, accessed April 6, 2011 .
  29. ↑ Advanced Chemistry: You lack the funk. Discogs , accessed April 6, 2011 .
  30. ↑ Rudyard Kipling / Michael Schulte (adaptation): Das Dschungelbuch, audio book based on the book by Rudyard Kipling, read by Anke Engelke. In: ohrka.de. Retrieved June 9, 2015 .
  31. ↑ Gold / platinum database of the Federal Association of the Music Industry, accessed on June 18, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Engelke, Anke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Anke Christina (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comedian, actress, entertainer, singer, voice actress and radio presenter
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Canada