Anke Christina Fischer ( Engelke; born 21 December 1965) is a German comedian, actress, voice actress and television presenter.

Personal life

Born in

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, Canada, Engelke moved to

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...

, Germany in 1971 with her German parents. Early on, she exhibited singing talent, and was discovered in 1978 by Georg Bossert at a performance of her school's choir. From 1994 to 2000, Engelke was married to the keyboardist Andreas Grimm with whom she has a daughter. She was married to musician Claus Fischer from 2005 to 2015, with whom she has two sons.

Career

From 1979 to 1986, she was the presenter of the daily children's television show broadcast from the Funkausstellung (a German radio exhibition, held every other year in

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), and the weekly children and youth's sports magazine show ''Pfiff''. From 1978 to 1980, she hosted the show ''Moment mal'' (Wait a minute) on RTL. SWF3 first brought her on board in 1986 as an editor; later on, she was the presenter there until 1998. She has sung with ''Fred Kellner und die famosen Soul Sisters'' since 1989. Since 1993, she has been part of the SWF3-Comedy-Ensemble ''Gagtory''. From 1996 to 2000, she was part of '' Die Wochenshow'' on Sat.1, a rather famous comedy TV show in Germany at that time, alongside

Bastian Pastewka Bastian Pastewka (born 4 April 1972) is a German actor and comedian. In Bochum, he first became known to a wider audience in Germany around 1996 as a regular cast member of the comedy show ''Die Wochenshow'' (engl.: The Weekly Show), essentiall ...

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and Marco Rima. In 2003, Engelke and

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were awarded the

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'', which is voiced by

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in the English original. She also provided the voice of Jane Porter in the German dubbing of the

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movie ''

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'', who is voiced by

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in the original version. Engelke can also be seen in the successful sketch comedy show ''

Ladykracher ''Ladykracher'' was a German sketch comedy show starring Anke Engelke. The show ran on Sat.1 from 2002 to 2004 and was produced by Brainpool. In 2008 the show was reproduced until 2013. Skits All Ladykracher skits feature Anke Engelke. The p ...

'' on Sat.1. On 17 May 2004, when the very successful ''

Die Harald Schmidt Show ''Die Harald Schmidt Show'' ("The Harald Schmidt Show") was a German late-night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show ...

'' left Sat.1, Engelke took over its timeslot with ''

Anke Late Night ''Anke Late Night'' was a German late night talk show hosted by Anke Engelke and produced by Brainpool. The show first aired on 17 May 2004 on Sat.1, in the same timeslot as ''Die Harald Schmidt Show''. The stageband for the show was the "Electr ...

'', which was cancelled due to low ratings a few months later on 21 October 2004. Engelke is the German voice of

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on ''

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'' since her predecessor

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", which aired in Germany on 21 January 2007. In December 2009, she hosted the

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ceremony, a role she would repeat in 2010, 2011 and 2012. In May 2011, she hosted the

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alongside Stefan Raab and

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. The following year, Engelke served as the spokesperson for

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at the

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held in

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. Before presenting the votes, she also gave a live statement on the human-rights issues in the hosting country, saying: "Tonight nobody could vote for their own country. But it is good to be able to vote. And it is good to have a choice. Good luck on your journey, Azerbaijan. Europe is watching you." She was the only spokesperson to articulately address

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during the event. She had also served as one of Germany's national juries for the contest during that year. In February 2013, her involvement with the Eurovision Song Contest continued as she hosted '' Unser Song für Malmö'', the German national final.

Filmography

Film

Television

Audiobooks

* 2009: Heike Faller: ''Wie ich einmal versuchte, reich zu werden'', publisher:

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, * 2013:

Felix Salten Felix Salten (; 6 September 1869 – 8 October 1945) was an Austro-Hungarian author and literary critic in Vienna. Life and death Salten was born Siegmund Salzmann on 6 September 1869 in Pest, Austria-Hungary. His father was Fülöp Salzmann, ...

: ''Bambi: Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde'', publisher: tacheles,

References

External links

Brainpool's Anke Engelke page
(in German)
Article on sbznet.de: "Late-Night-Talk: Anke macht's für Harald"
(23 December 2003) (in German) *
Zeit (14/2004)
Interview with Anke Engelke at the beginning of her Late-Night-Show (in German)
Zeit (01/2005) Interview with Anke Engelke near the end of her Late-Night-Show
(in German)
''Anke Engelke:'' Interview
Germany)
Anke Engelke
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