Krissie Illing

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Krissie Illing as Wilma in Costa del Love (2014)

Krissie Illing (actually Christine Elisabeth Illing ; born December 8, 1956 in Beckenham , London Borough of Bromley ) is a British dancer , actress , entertainer , comedian and clown ; occasionally she also appears as a ventriloquist .

Life

As a child she was already enthusiastic about ballet . She studied dance in London at the Royal Academy of Dance and at The Dance Center in Covent Garden . After performances with Patti Webb in London nightclubs , she moved in 1982 to Paris , the art of mime with Etienne Decroux study. Back in London, she met Mark Britton in 1984 , went on a world tour with him and to German stages.

Today Krissie Illing lives with her husband, Chris Adams, who performed as a juggler , in Vaour , France, not far from Toulouse . You have two children.

Act

Krissie Illing with Mark Britton in Costa del Love (2014)

With Mark Britton she founded the successful comedy duo Nickelodeon in 1984 , in which Illing excels as "Wilma" and Britton as "William" . These characters made her world famous; they have appeared at festivals in Hong Kong , Tokyo , Nagasaki , Montreal , Vancouver , New York , Amsterdam , Barcelona , Dublin , Edinburgh and London, among others.

In 1985, they received the Street Entertainers of the Year award in Covent Garden, sponsored by Time Out magazine and Village Voice . A film about the festival was broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK . This was followed by a tour of the New York clubs and an appearance in Times Square . In 1986, her first full-length stage program, Did you see that? at the Edinburgh Festival with the "Critics' Choice" award.

Her programs "Dinner for Two" (1990) and "Great Lovers in History" (1991) have been played hundreds of times in Germany (e.g. in the tipi at the Chancellery ). In addition, all of Nickelodeon's theater productions in Germany were televised.

In 1999 Krissie Illing had her first solo appearance in a variety program at GOP Varieté Essen . Her one-person play "Wilma's wonderful laundry" premiered in Vaour at the La Commanderie theater . The play ran for a long time in France, Germany and Switzerland and was also performed in the ufaFabrik in Berlin . She not only appeared on television in Germany (e.g. " Horst pass auf ", " Lachen mit Lars ", Kurt Krömer Show and " Immer wieder sonntags "), but also in Switzerland (" Comedy im Casino " and " Arosa Humor Festival "broadcast on DRS ). In 2005 she was the star guest in the birthday gala for Dieter Hallervorden " At 70 you still have dreams! " On ARD and in Arte 's New Year's Eve gala .

The Berlin Prize , which was awarded for the first time in 2003, was also given to Krissie Illing by Dieter Hallervorden at the great cabaret festival of the cabaret theater Die Wühlmäuse . In 2004 her second full-length solo show "Wilma's Jubilee" followed . She also formed the duo " Wilde Weiber " with Astrid Gloria (then "Hertha Schwätzig") . The two went on tour together several times between 2002 and 2008 and played the "Comedy Ladies Night" together .

In the period from 2006 to 2008, Krissie Illing gave guest appearances for several months at the American Teatro ZinZanni in both San Francisco and Seattle . Since 2009 she has been touring regularly with Gerburg Jahnke . As part of the program "Gerburg Jahnke invites ... let's see who's coming" , Krissie Illing had a guest appearance at the Ruhr Festival 2010 in Recklinghausen . Also in 2010 she received an award in France: at the "Festival d'humour de de café théâtre" in Rocquencourt she won the audience award.

Since 2005 she has been back on stage as "Wilma" in the Nickelodeon duo with Mark Britton, both with an updated version of Great Lovers in History and with Christmas Dinner for Two, her Christmas program, e.g. B. in the mustard pot in Cologne . From 2012 their new piece "Costa del Love" will run together (e.g. in the Fliegende Bauten Hamburg or in the Düsseldorfer Kom (m) ödchen ).

Krissie Illing gained particular fame as an impersonator of Queen Elizabeth II ; in this role she was seen in the special edition of children's programs 1, 2 or 3 on ZDFtivi on the occasion of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. She combines her bizarre parody with different dance styles, with the Queen mutating into a “go-go girl”.

Stage programs (selection)

Nickelodeon tours

  • 1986 Did you see that?
  • 1990 Dinner for Two
  • 1991 Great Lovers in History
  • 1999 Christmas Dinner for Two
  • 2012 Costa del Love

Solo tours

  • 1999 Waiting with Wilma
  • 2000 Wilma's wonderful laundromat
  • 2004 Wilma's Jubilee

Further tours

Awards

  • 1985 Time Out Entertainer's Festival, Covent Garden Street Entertainer of the Year, first prize
  • 1986 Edinburgh Festival: Critics' Prize
  • 2003 The big cabaret festival , Berlin Prize
  • 2010 Audience Award at the Festival d'humour et de café théâtre in Rocquencourt

TV appearances (selection)

Web links

Commons : Krissie Illing  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e subpage Posts on the homepage of Krissie Illing (French)
  2. ↑ a b c subpage Biography on the homepage of Krissie Illing
  3. ↑ Video Krissie Illing: Ventriloqisme pour débutant (French-English) ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on the website youhumour.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.youhumour.com
  4. ↑ Chris & Alex Juggling Double Act on the Juggling.tv website
  5. ↑ Krissie Illing's personal website on LinkedIn
  6. ↑ a b c d e artist biography of Krissie Illing (French / English) ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the PorteBonheur website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / porte-bonheur.ch
  7. ↑ a b Tipi tent at the Chancellery Virtuous: Krissie Illing and Mark Britton from Nickelodeon with "Great Lovers in History" , in: Berliner Zeitung of September 29, 2006
  8. ^ Homepage of Mark Britton
  9. ↑ Nickelodeon: Winner 1985 of the "Street Entertainer of the Year Award" ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on a private website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.anne-tucker.de
  10. ^ That's Street Entertainment 1985 on the British Film Institute website
  11. ^ "The Festival was started in 1982 and a program on it shown from 1983 to 1985 on Channel 4" , in: Palace of Variety. UK Contemporary Circus History
  12. ↑ Press release of March 1st, 2011 (PDF) ( Memento of the original of March 5th, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Comedy Dresden . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pr-buero-dresden.de
  13. ↑ Mister and Misses Bean. British humor with Wilma and William and their life story in three Christmas dinners , in: Badische Zeitung of December 21, 2009.
  14. ^ Nickelodeon · Mark Britton · Krissie Illing · Costa del Love. Summer, sex and sunburn. - The brand new and hot program! ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the RPR1 website . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rpr1.de
  15. ↑ a b c d short vita ( memento of the original dated February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Theatertransfer website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theatertransfer.de
  16. ↑ a b Krissie Illing: " Wilma's wonderful laundry " , event information on the website of the ufaFabrik Berlin
  17. ^ Report in Trottoir-online Kleinkunst-Magazin No. 49 from December 15, 2005
  18. ↑ Horst pass auf (2/5), broadcast on January 20, 2003 , on the SWR press portal - Südwestrundfunk
  19. ↑ Laughing with Lars - cabaret show ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , broadcast on June 3, 2011 on hr-fernsehen on the TopTV website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.toptv.de
  20. ↑ Ulrike Borowczyk: Fun factor Neukölln , in: Berliner Morgenpost from October 8, 2011
  21. ^ Every Sunday , broadcast on May 26, 2013 on the Fawpress website
  22. ↑ May 8, 2002: First edition of the «Comedy im Casino» series (PDF)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Swiss television (SF)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.srf.ch  
  23. ↑ Broad definition of humor - space for experiments , in: Freiburger Nachrichten of December 14, 2002
  24. ↑ Dieter Hallervorden - At 70 you still have dreams! " , Entry in the Internet Movie Database
  25. ^ Elmar Schütze: We laugh at the voles , in: Berliner Zeitung of June 26, 2003
  26. ↑ a b Ulrike Borowczyk: With Krissie Illing, the queen becomes a go-go girl , in: Berliner Morgenpost from September 9, 2004
  27. ↑ Hannes Schmitz: Everyday Scenes Parodiert , in: Aachener Nachrichten of November 14, 2008
  28. ↑ Simone Wiegand: The flower elf eats too much chocolate during puberty. “Night of the Wild Women” also delights men - Hertha von Schwätzig and Krissi Illing , in: Nordwest-Zeitung of January 30, 2006.
  29. ↑ Ladies Night with Hertha Schwätzig and Krissie Illing , program description on the website of Cafe Extra , Kleinkunstbühne Büttelborn
  30. ↑ Presentation and history of the ZinZanni program ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tour.zinzanni.org
  31. ↑ Antonio Mateo: "I have nothing against men - only shorts!" On the website Observer.online from May 15, 2012
  32. ↑ Current dates of the program Ms. Jahnke has invited ...
  33. ↑ "Gerburg Jahnke invites you ... let's see who is coming" ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in the official program of the Ruhrfestspiele 2010 (PDF), p. 32 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ruhrfestspiele.de
  34. ↑ "Vivre à Rocquencourt", communal bulletin, April-May 2010, p. 6
  35. ↑ Krissie Illing, photos and press reviews on the Schüttekeller website from March 2, 2007
  36. ↑ "Christmas Dinner for Two" in a mustard pot , in: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from 2006
  37. ↑ Stefan Reckziegel: Flying Buildings. Costa del Love: Off to the second honeymoon , in: Hamburger Abendblatt from July 2, 2013
  38. ↑ Nina Peters: Comedy duo Nickelodeon - Englishmen on the "Costa del Love" , in: Westdeutsche Zeitung from July 19, 2012.
  39. ↑ Krissie Illing as Queen on YouTube
  40. ↑ "1, 2 or 3": London calling! Pulsating Olympic City 2012 is the subject of the ZDF tivi quiz show on the ZDF press portal on June 20, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Illing, Krissie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Illing, Christine Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British comedian
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Beckenham (London)