The actress Johanna Kappauf has already enchanted some. For example, her colleague Edgar Selge, who attested to her “sensational talent for enthusiasm” and was the godfather of her award with the Therese Giehse Prize 2022. Now the 24-year-old Kappauf, who only started acting in 2019, has her first in 2021 Once she took part in a chamber play production and has been a member of the ensemble since this season, received another prize: the Association for the Promotion of the Munich Chamber Games awarded her its prize of 5,000 euros. Director Jan-Christoph Gockel, who gave the eulogy, said she was “an actress with magical abilities”. Of the three productions in which she has been involved so far, “Whoever hopes dies singing” and “Antigone” will be seen in the coming season.
Walter Hess (back left) – here in “Göttersimulation” – has been on stage for 60 years.
(Photo: Armin Smailovic)
The association also awarded honorary membership to Walter Hess. The actor, who was born in 1939 and has been on stage for 60 years, also conjures up characters on the stage that are delicate and fragile in their determination. Most recently, this happened with his weird, military-fixated, senile Colonel Triletsky in “The Fatherless”.