Gisa Flake (born 10 October 1985) is a German actress, singer and cabaret artist.[1][2]
Life
Gisela "Gisa" Flake was born in Braunschweig, at that time close to the border that divided the two Germanstates. Even before leaving school, she had appeared on the cabaret stage in Braunschweig, in various shows such as "Geben sie acht! – Die Georg Kreisler-Revue" ("Watch out! – The Georg Kreisler Review").
In 2009 she won the Bundeswettbewerb (Singing Contest) category "Musical/Chanson"[5] and went on a national tour with a programme entitled "Ich glaub, ’ne Dame werd ich nie" (loosely: "I believe I were never no lady"). In 2010 she featured as Tanya Gleason in Simon Stephens' piece, "Punk Rock" when it came to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus (theatre) in Hamburg.[6] She was in Tobias Ginsburg's "Radikal. Monument der Verwesung" ("Radical. Monument of decay") at the i-camp/Neues Theater in Munich in 2014. Her new cabaret programme "Scham & Schande" followed in 2015.
For the television Sitcom Bully macht Buddy she returned in 2013 to a working partnership with Michael Herbig. She took on a main role alongside Rick Kavanian and Herbst himself.[7] That was transmitted in November/December 2013 across Germany on the ProSieben channel. In 2015 she appeared alongside Jürgen Vogel in the ZDF thriller series "Blochin – The living and the dead".
