Gisa Flake (born 10 October 1985) is a German actress, singer and

cabaret artist Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, a casino, a hotel, a restaurant, or a nightclub with a stage for performances. The audience, often dining or ...

Life

Gisela "Gisa" Flake was born in

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( , from Low German ''Brunswiek'' , Braunschweig dialect: ''Bronswiek'') is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the Nor ...

, at that time close to the

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that divided the two German states. Even before leaving school, she had appeared on the cabaret stage in

, in various shows such as "Geben sie acht! – Die

Georg Kreisler Georg Kreisler (18 July 1922 – 22 November 2011) was an Austrian–American Viennese-language cabarettist, satirist, composer, and author. He was particularly popular in the 1950s and 1960s. From 2007 he lived in Salzburg, Austria, with his fou ...

-Revue" (''"Watch out! – The Georg Kreisler Review"''). She concluded her school career, passing her school final exams (''"Abitur"'') at the IGS:FF (school) in

and went on to study drama in

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

at the

Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding The Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding (English: Bavarian Theatre Academy August Everding) at the Prinzregententheater in Munich, was founded by August Everding in 1993. Since September 2014, the Academy has been directed by Hans-Jürgen Dr ...

. That led to her degree in acting, which she received in 2010. Since then she has appeared in a range of film, television and theatre production, sung in blues and soul bands, and featured in cabaret productions. Her film debut came in 2009 with her appearance in the "action comedy"

Vicky the Viking ''Vicky the Viking'', known as ''Wickie und die starken Männer'' () in Germany and Austria and in Japan, is an animated television series which tells the adventures of Vicky, a young Viking boy who uses his wits to help his Viking fellows. It ...

as the wife of Tjure (played by

Nic Romm Nicolas "Nic" Romm (born 1974 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a German actor. Life and work After Nic Romm finished the gymnasium in Jülich, a town in the district of Düren, in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, he visited the ''Hochs ...

). She took the same role two years later in the sequel,

Vicky and the Treasure of the Gods ''Vicky and the Treasure of the Gods'' (german: Wickie auf großer Fahrt) is a 2011 German 3D adventure film directed by Christian Ditter. It is the sequel to the 2009 film ''Vicky the Viking''. Plot During a raid on an English encampment by t ...

. In 2009 she won the Bundeswettbewerb (Singing Contest) category "Musical/Chanson" and went on a national tour with a programme entitled "Ich glaub, ’ne Dame werd ich nie" (loosely: ''"I believe I were never no lady"''). In 2010 she featured as Tanya Gleason in

Simon Stephens Simon Stephens (born 6 February 1971) is an English playwright and Professor of Scriptwriting at Manchester Metropolitan University. Having taught on the Young Writers' Programme at the Royal Court Theatre for many years, he is now an Artistic ...

' piece, " Punk Rock" when it came to the

Deutsches Schauspielhaus The Deutsches Schauspielhaus is a theatre in the St. Georg quarter of the city of Hamburg, Germany. It was established in 1901 by the renowned stage actress Franziska Ellmenreich. Theatre managers Notable actors Marco Albrecht, Ingrid ...

(theatre) in

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. She was in Tobias Ginsburg's "Radikal. Monument der Verwesung" (''"Radical. Monument of decay"'') at the i-camp/Neues Theater in Munich in 2014. Her new cabaret programme "Scham & Schande" followed in 2015. For the television Sitcom Bully macht Buddy she returned in 2013 to a working partnership with

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. She took on a main role alongside

Rick Kavanian Richard "Rick" Horatio Kavanian (born 26 January 1971) is a German actor, comedian, author and voice actor and dubber. He is famous for his cooperation with Michael Herbig, which led to many popular movie comedies and parodies, e.g. '' Manitou's S ...

and Herbst himself. That was transmitted in November/December 2013 across Germany on the

ProSieben ProSieben (, ''sieben'' is German for "seven"; often stylized as Pro7) is a German free-to-air television network owned by ProSiebenSat.1 Media. It was launched on 1 January 1989. It is Germany's second-largest privately owned television company ...

channel. In 2015 she appeared alongside

Jürgen Vogel Jürgen Peter Vogel (; born 29 April 1968, in Hamburg) is a German actor, screenwriter, film producer and singer. One of the most successful character actors in German cinema, he first broke out in 1992 with his role in ''Little Sharks''.Jürgen ...

in the

ZDF ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...

thriller series "Blochin – The living and the dead".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Flake, Gisa German performance artists German stage actresses German film actresses German cabaret performers Actors from Braunschweig 1985 births Living people