Hella von Sinnen

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Hella von Sinnen
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Von Sinnen at a charity concert in Cologne in late 2006
Born
Hella Kemper

(1959-02-02) 2 February 1959 (age 65)
Gummersbach, West Germany
Occupation(s)Comedian, television presenter
PartnerCornelia Scheel (1991–2015) [1]

Hella Kemper (born 2 February 1959), known by her stage name Hella von Sinnen (lit. Hella out of her mind, making pun of the aristocratic "von"), is a German entertainer and television presenter. She has been a regular on several TV shows on German private channels, mainly RTL. Von Sinnen has been socially committed to people with HIV for many years and played the nurse Rita in Rosa von Praunheim 's film A Virus Knows No Morals (1986), one of the first feature films about AIDS.

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Career

Since the show's first air date on 11 January 2003, von Sinnen has served as one of two (until 2011 together with Bernhard Hoëcker and since 2017 with Wigald Boning) permanent panel members of the weekly Sat.1 improvisational comedy show Genial daneben (lit. ingeniously off the mark). In the show, von Sinnen, Hoëcker and three varying comedians try to answer strange questions sent in by the audience.

Since 2018, she is a panel member of the spin-off Genial daneben – Das Quiz. Since April 2017 she hosts the ComicTalk on the fee-paying, only German Online-Portal Massengeschmack-TV.

Personal life

Von Sinnen supports same-sex marriage in Germany. She was in a long-time relationship with Cornelia Scheel, the adopted daughter of Walter Scheel who was the President of Germany from 1974 to 1979.

Selected filmography

Awards

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Von Sinnen in 2015

As a permanent panel member of Genial daneben (together with Bernhard Hoëcker and Hugo Egon Balder):

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References

  1. ↑ "Hella von Sinnen: Trennung nach 25 Jahren". kurier.at (in German). 11 November 2015.
  2. ↑ Sehen.de | Das Portal für gutes Sehen. Ratgeber, Gesundheit, Styling (in German)


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