According to information from the, the maker of the currently most successful German children’s film is Johannes Honsell Mirror died at just 45 years old. Honsell was one of the inventors of the children’s format “Checker Tobi”, a popular series of reports that was nominated for the Grimme Prize and won several awards for the “Life and Death Check”.
With the film “Checker Tobi and the Journey to the Flying Rivers”, in which, as in the reports, Tobias Krell plays the main role, Johannes Honsell achieved an extraordinary cinema success in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. More than a million viewers had seen the film by the end of November.
Honsell grew up in Salzburg, studied history in Munich, but decided against a career as a historian. Instead, as a journalist, he initially wrote for Mirror, taz and also the Southgerman newspaper. Honsell learned about the medium of film and television at the German Journalism School in Munich. He later realized various projects with the Megaherz company, including the successful scientific report series “Checker Tobi”.
Honsell succumbed to cancer on December 27th.