Anke Engelke

Anke Engelke was born in 1965, in Quebec, Canada. In 1971 she moved to Cologne with her parents. She has sung with Fred Kellner und die famosen Soul Sisters since 1989. Since 1993, she has been part of the SWF3-Comedy-Ensemble Gagtory. From 1994 to 2000, Engelke was married to the keyboardist Andreas Grimm with whom she has a daughter. Currently she is married to musician Claus Fischer, and she also has two children, fathered by him.

Anke is well known for her ability to jump into different female roles, playing them very convincingly, and changing them in the blink of an eye. A very wide variety of facial expressions (which tend to the funny side) is also at her disposal. In 2003, Anke Engelke and Olli Dittrich were awarded the golden Adolf Grimme Prize for the show Blind Date 2 - Taxi nach Schweinau. In December 2003, Engelke provided the voice of the fish Dory in the German-language version of the computer-animated film Finding Nemo, which is voiced by Ellen DeGeneres in the English-language version. She was also the voice of Jane Porter in the German-language version of the Disney movie Tarzan.

In December of 2010, it was announced that she would host the ESC 2011, along with Judith Rakers and Stefan Raab.