According to information from Spiegel, the maker of the currently most successful German children’s film Johannes Honsell has died at the age of just 45. Honsell was one of the inventors of the children’s format “Checker Tobi”, a popular series of reports in Kika and Erste, which was nominated for the Grimme Prize and received 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 television 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 Spiegel, the taz and also the Süddeutsche Zeitung. 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 children’s knowledge program “Checker Tobi”.
Honsell succumbed to cancer on December 27th.
2023-12-30 10:02:24
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