Draft:Anka Zink

Anka Zink (born March 3, 1957, in Bonn) is a German cabaret artist, comedian, author and director.

Life
Born and raised in Bonn, Anka Zink now lives in Cologne. As a scholarship holder of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, she studied at Bielefeld with Niklas Luhmann and graduated as a diploma sociologist. She initially began a university career before taking part in casting for improv shows and giving up her academic activities in favor of a stage career in the early 1980s. She was one of the founding members of the stage ensemble Springmaus initiated by Bill Mockridge in Bonn; her stage partners at the time included Dirk Bach. Zink moderated, played and belonged to the management of the Springmaus-Theater, now directed by Andreas Etienne.

From 1989 to 1990, Zink was accepted into the Ensemble of the Düsseldorfer Kom(m)ödchen and promoted by Lore Lorentz. Her partners at the time included Harald Schmidt. Harald Schmidt, later Volker Pispers. Since 1991, she has primarily appeared on stage as a solo cabaret artist; she has produced twelve programs to date. In addition to her stage appearances, Zink is also an irregular guest on various radio and television programs, for example in: 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe (RTL), Genial daneben (Sat.1), Blond am Freitag (ZDF), Spätschicht - Die Comedy Bühne (SWR), Mitternachtsspitzen (WDR), Ottis Schlachthof (BR), Zimmer frei! (WDR) and on the WDR radio program Unterhaltung am Wochenende (WDR 5). From 1999 to 2002, Zink was a lecturer at the Cologne Comedy School, whose patron was Rudi Carrell.

Zink also frequently speaks out on political and social issues and events, either personally or as a publicist. She performed at the Sommerblut festival in Cologne. She is the patron of the Bonn theater event art'n vielfalt-2008. In the 2005 federal election campaign, Zink supported Angela Merkel (CDU). She also supports sports clubs such as the Bonn Rowing Society on a voluntary basis. She writes satirical columns for the Cologne newspaper Express, among others. In 2009, Egmont VGS published the satirical novel Mein langer feuchter Wellnessweg, in which she describes the beauty fate of three women in their "prime".

Stage programs

 * 1991: Alle Männchen werden Prüder
 * 1994: Da gehen wir hin
 * 1996: Adam - ein Abend für Optimisten
 * 1998: Damensolo in Rot
 * 2000: Zink positiv
 * 2003: Zink of me
 * 2005: Zink wirkt zuverlässig
 * 2007: Wellness für alle
 * 2010: Sexy ist was anders
 * 2013: Leben in vollen Zügen
 * 2015: Zink extrem positiv
 * 2020: Das Ende der Bescheidenheit
 * 2023: Just got well again

CD releases

 * String of pearls
 * Zinc positive
 * Zinc of me

Books

 * My long wet wellness path. A self-experiment. Egmont VGS, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-8025-3672-4.
 * Sexy is something else. Groping was in the past, tweeting is today. Egmont VGS, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-8025-3749-3.