Johanna König (actress)

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Johanna König (2008)

Johanna König-Hock (born March 27, 1921 in Dresden , † March 3, 2009 in Berlin ), known as Johanna König , was a German actress and dancer. For decades she embodied the advertising character Klementine for the Procter & Gamble group .

Career

Johanna König was the daughter of the personal cook of the last Saxon King Friedrich August III. She gained her first stage experience in the children's ballet of the Dresden State Opera . After training at the Borchardt drama school in Berlin, she worked on stage as a solo dancer and actress.

Dance, theater, film

In 1937 she started as a dancer at the Reussisches Theater Gera , in 1938 she moved to the Theater Bielefeld . She has appeared in operettas, musicals and revues. At the age of 18 she successfully passed her soloist examination. During the war she worked at the Theater des Volkes (on Dresden's Albertplatz ), where she was a member of the chamber dance group alongside soloists such as Vera Mahlke and Dore Hoyer . She also took part in the cabaret of the comedians by Willi Schaeffers . In 1944/45 she belonged to the ensemble of the “German Reich Ballet” and at the end of the Second World War had to work in a munitions factory in Hildburghausen as part of the Total War .

Immediately after the end of the war, Johanna König was engaged at the Landestheater in Meiningen from June 1945 to 1946 , where she appeared in theater and operetta productions and in numerous ballet performances under the direction of Mia Sema. She then returned to Berlin, where she was again active in the comedians ' cabaret . Then she was seen in the operetta Die Csárdásfürstin and in the musical Käpt'n Bay-Bay . As a supporting actress, she took part in a few homeland films and comedies in the 1950s and 1960s, where she impersonated comical women. As “Europe's No. 1 dance parodist” she toured Western Europe.

At the height of her popularity, she played the title role in Walter Bockmayer's award-winning film Jane Remains Jane (1977). Here she embodied a woman who daydreams of being Tarzan's widow. She was also represented in the ARD early evening series Drei Damen vom Grill and Praxis Bülowbogen (1987–1996).

Advertising icon (television)

Johanna König achieved great popularity in her role as the advertising character Klementine , in which she advertised the detergent Ariel from 1968 to 1984 . Her trademarks were: white dungarees and white peaked cap, each with the inscription "Clementine", red and white checked shirt. “Not just clean, but clean” and “Ariel in the main wash” became popular words.

After a break of ten years, she stood in front of the camera again as Clementine in 1993 and was seen in TV spots for another three years until 1996. She then received a PR contract for life from Ariel manufacturer Procter & Gamble .

Private life

At the age of 75, she slowly withdrew from the screen. She was married to the film production manager Felix Hock. She died on March 3, 2009 at the age of 87. Johanna König was buried at sea in the Baltic Sea.

Awards

  • 1976: Critics' Prize at the Locarno Film Festival

Filmography

literature

  • Wolfgang Hars: Lurchi, Klementine & Co. Our advertising heroes and their stories. Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-596-15074-4 .
  • Gerhard Hörner, Johanna König, Christina Zacker : Clementine. The big wash book. So your laundry is not only clean, but pure! Ullstein, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-548-36340-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Old advertising 1968 "Ariel" youtube.com, MrOberschussel, upload September 21, 2015, accessed May 4, 2017. - Video (1:12)
  2. ↑ museumsmagazin.com: Klementine: Interview with Johanna König-Hock , 1/2002
  3. ↑ Felix Hock. Internet Movie Database , accessed November 10, 2015 .
  4. ^ Dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH: Johanna König alias “Klementine” died on March 4, 2009
personal data
SURNAME King, Johanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES König-Hock, Johanna (full name); Clementine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, dancer and advertising icon
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 2009
Place of death Berlin