Comedian, entertainer and author Hape Kerkeling will be awarded the Donors’ Honorary Prize at the German Television Prize 2021.
Hape Kerkeling (56) will receive a special honor at the German Television Award 2021. The donors (RTL, ZDF, Sat.1, ARD and Deutsche Telekom) award him their honorary award. As a “man of many faces” he has been providing new impulses for decades and continues to inspire audiences with his enormous artistic range and personality, according to the reasoning.
On September 16, Hape Kerkeling will personally receive the award for his life’s work as part of the awarding of the German Television Prize in Cologne. RTL broadcasts the gala hosted by Barbara Schöneberger (47) on the same evening with a time delay from 8:15 p.m. The honorary award was first awarded in 1999. The award winners include Jürgen von der Lippe (73; 2019), Thomas Gottschalk (71; 2018) and Frank Elstner (79; 2012).
Hape Kerkeling plant TV-Comeback
The price comes at the right moment: the comedian, entertainer and author will soon be more public again and will celebrate his TV comeback in two VOX formats in late autumn. In “Hape and the 7 Dwarf States”, Kerkeling travels through Andorra, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican. In “An Evening with Hape Kerkeling” the comedian reads from his new book “Paws from the table! My cats, other cats and me” in the Hansa Theater in Hamburg and gives insights into his world.
The entertainer actually retired entirely from show business on the occasion of his 50th birthday in 2014. In 2019 he was back in front of the camera as an actor for “The Boandlkramer and Eternal Love” (2021) before the commercial broadcaster RTL announced the big TV comeback for 2022 in March 2021. The said book was also published in June 2021.
Kerkeling will also be back musically: his new album “Mal unter uns …” will be released on October 22nd. The first song “Der Weg nach Haus” has already been published in advance, the first real single including a music video will be with “Ich leb den Traum” on September 24th.
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