Johanna Penski
Johanna Penski (* 1927 in Treptow ) is a German actress . She gained fame with her numerous appearances as an extra in more than 1000 cinema and television productions.
Life
Penski was born in Treptow, today's Polish city of Trzebiatów , in 1927 . Her first small film role was in the Nazi propaganda film Kolberg in 1944 . After the end of the Second World War , she fled west in 1945, later returned, but was then expelled again. She lived in Magdeburg , Potsdam and from 1958 in West Berlin . She worked as a physical education teacher until she retired. She has two children with her husband, who died in the late 1960s.
In 1987, at the age of 60, Penski registered with an agency for film extras and has since been booked frequently for various movies and television series.
Examples of her appearances include the films Der Himmel über Berlin and In weit Ferne, so nah! by Wim Wenders , Sonnenallee and Hai-Alarm am Müggelsee by Leander Haußmann and several films by Til Schweiger ( Zweiohrküken , Kokowääh , 1½ Ritter etc.). She also took on small roles in a crime scene episode and in the Oscar-winning short film Toy Land.
Director Henning Drechsler accompanied her for a year for the documentary Sternstunden about the work of extras. The short film With Wrinkles to Film also deals with Penski's career.
Penski gained notoriety in 2014 through a larger role in a telecom commercial that also dealt with her life. That year she also received an invitation to the German Film Prize .
In 2015, Penski published her autobiography, Dreams Don't Age .
Web links
- Johanna Penski in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Frank Bachner: Extra from Tempelhof: Til Schweiger's favorite article on tagesspiegel.de from March 11, 2014
- Julia Friese: Propaganda to advertising - Penski turned everything Article on welt.de from May 9, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Film Award 2014 - Telekom fulfills a lifelong dream for 86-year-old extras Johanna Penski. May 10, 2014, accessed April 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Maximilian Zender: The grandma who the stars trust Report on superillu.de
- ↑ Claudia Weingärtner: Johanna (86), the cool grandma from TV advertising! Article on bild.de from April 19, 2014
- ↑ Hannah Wagner: 87-year-old extras: Film-ready article on Spiegel Online from February 5, 2016
- ↑ Marcus Böttcher: Berlin grannies make rip-offs look old: These TV decoys are the beep article in the Berliner Kurier on October 11, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Penski, Johanna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trzebiatów |