Hape Kerkeling (56) will receive a special honor at the German Television Award 2021. The sponsors (RTL, ZDF, Sat.1, ARD and Deutsche Telekom) honor him with their honorary prize. As a "man of many faces" he has been providing new impulses for decades and continues to inspire the audience with his enormous artistic range and personality to this day, according to the reasoning.
On September 16, Hape Kerkeling will personally accept the award for his life's work at the German Television Awards ceremony in Cologne. RTL will broadcast the gala moderated by Barbara Schöneberger (47) on the same evening at 8:15 p.m. The honorary award was first presented in 1999. The winners include Jürgen von der Lippe (73; 2019), Thomas Gottschalk (71; 2018) and Frank Elstner (79; 2012).
Hape Kerkeling is planning a TV comeback
The award comes at the right moment: the comedian, entertainer and author will soon be making more public appearances and will be celebrating 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 "Pfoten vom Tisch! Meine Katzen, Other Katzen und Ich" in the Hansa Theater in Hamburg and gives insights into his world.
The entertainer actually withdrew completely 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 "Der Boandlkramer und die Eternal Love" (2021), before the private 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 released in advance, the first real single release including music video will be "I live the dream" on September 24th.
