Hella von Sinnen


Hella Kemper, known professionally as Hella von Sinnen, 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, one of the first feature films about AIDS.

Career

Since the show's first air date on 11 January 2003, von Sinnen has served as one of two permanent panel members of the weekly Sat.1 improvisational comedy show Genial daneben. 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

A Virus Knows No Morals, as nurse RitaThe Lion King, as Shenzi Killer Condom, as Detective SallyVenus and Mars, as BerthaCrazy About Paris , as BlumenverkäuferinHome on the Range, as Maggie , as Sister StephanieSunshine Barry & The Disco Worms, as Donna Mr. Peabody & Sherman as Mrs. Grunion

Awards

[file:2015-03-29 384 Hella von Sinnen.JPG|thumb|Von Sinnen in 2015]
As a permanent panel member of Genial daneben :