Full Name Ilka Bessin Years active 2004–present Role Comedian Awards Bravo Otto - Comedian | Occupation Actor, comedian Name Ilka Bessin Height 1.90 m | |
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Ilka Bessin (born 18 November 1971, Luckenwalde, Germany) is a German comedian and actress, best known for her role as Cindy aus Marzahn (German for: Cindy from Marzahn).
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- Cindy begr ung bei wetten dass
- Early life
- Cindy aus Marzahn Komplettverwandlung Sie ist kaum wiederzuerkennen BUNTE TV
- Career start
- Cindy aus Marzahn
- Tours
- Awards
- References

Early life

After finishing school, Bessin studied culinary arts and later trained to be a hotel manager. She worked as a chef until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, and Germany was reunified. Shortly after that, she was a bartender in a disco and later the chief clerk. In 1999, she changed careers and became an entertainment director and comedy performer on a cruise liner. It was there that she invented her most famous character "Cindy aus Marzahn". Marzahn is a blue collar section of East Berlin.
„Cindy aus Marzahn" - Komplettverwandlung: Sie ist kaum wiederzuerkennen! - BUNTE TV
Career start
In 2004, she won the final season of the ProSieben network's Quatsch Comedy Club stand-up show. With this win, her career as a comedian and actress began. In 2009, she was set in the role of the landlady Ilka in the Sat.1 comedy show Schillerstrase. In January 2010, she started her own comedy show, named Cindy aus Marzahn und die jungen Wilden (Cindy from Marzahn and the Young Wild Ones). In spring 2011, the third season started Nicht jeder Prinz kommt uff'm Pferd! (Not Every Prince Comes on Horseback). Followed by the Pink is Bjutiful 2013.
Cindy aus Marzahn
Cindy aus Marzahn is a fictional character from the Berlin working class area Marzahn. Her character of a frumpy, sarcastic "Ossie" woman has endeared her to millions of Germans, Swiss and Austrians, and she is one of the most famous and highly paid female entertainers and comedians in those lands. Her humorous observations about everyday life can be compared to Roseanne Barr of the USA, with more sweetness added. Cindy is most famous for her flaming pink velour track suit, and curly blond hair, with over-the-top makeup. Cindy's television comedy specials, usually taped in Halle (Saale), Germany, consistently attract strong audiences, and top guest stars and comedians from Germany comedy. Since the retirement of Thomas Gottschalk and Michelle Hunziker as presenters of the very famous German TV show "Wetten, dass..?", she now assists new presenter Markus Lanz as a co-host. Though very private about her personal life, reports are she has a daughter, and is single.
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