Hella von Sinnen

Hella von Sinnen
von Sinnen on a charity concert in Cologne in late 2006
Born	Hella Kemper (1959-02-02) 2 February 1959 Gummersbach, North Rhine-Westphalia
Spouse	Cornelia Scheel (sep. 2014)

Hella Kemper (born 2 February 1959 in Gummersbach) known by her stage name Hella von Sinnen (lit. Hella out of [her] mind, making pun of the aristocratic von) is a German entertainer. She had several TV shows on German private channels (mainly RTL Group). Since the show's first air date on 11 January 2003, she has formed (until 2011 together with Bernhard Hoëcker and since 2017 with Wigald Boning) the two permanent panel members of the award-winning weekly Sat.1 improvisational comedy show Genial daneben (lit. ingeniously off the mark) presented by her main TV partner Hugo Egon Balder. In this 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 at the spin-off Genial Daneben - Das Quiz. Her stage name is a pun on the German von preposition denoting noble descent; von Sinnen is a German expression for mad or insane.

She supported the fight for same-sex marriage in Germany with her now ex-wife Cornelia Scheel, adopted daughter of former President of Germany Walter Scheel.

Selected filmography

• Killer Condom (1996), as Detective Sally
• Venus and Mars (2001), as Bertha
• Crazy About Paris (2002), as Blumenverkäuferin
• Neues vom Wixxer (2007), as Schwester Stephanie
• Ein Schnupfen hätte auch gereicht (2017)

Awards

• 1990 – Bambi
• 2006 – German Comedy Award - Best Comedian
• 2007 - Spectacle Wearer of the Year
• As a permanent panel member of Genial daneben (always together with Bernhard Hoëcker and Hugo Egon Balder):
  • 2003 and 2006 - German Comedy Award - Best Comedy Show
  • 2004 - German Television Award - Best Entertainment Show / Best Presentation of an Entertainment Show

External links

• Hella von Sinnen at IMDb