Hella von Sinnen

• Name — Hella von Sinnen • Birth Name — Hella Kemper • Born — 2 February 1959 • Birthplace — Gummersbach, West Germany • Occupation — Comedian, television presenter • Partner — Cornelia Scheel (1991–2015)

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.

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.

• A Virus Knows No Morals (1986), as nurse Rita • The Lion King (1994), as Shenzi (voice, German Dub) • Killer Condom (1996), as Detective Sally • Venus and Mars (2001), as Bertha • Crazy About Paris (2002), as Blumenverkäuferin • Home on the Range (2004), as Maggie (voice, German Dub) • Neues vom Wixxer (2007), as Sister Stephanie • Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms (2007), as Donna (voice) • Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014) as Mrs. Grunion (voice) • Ein Schnupfen hätte auch gereicht (2017)