Johanna Penski

Johanna Penski (born 1927 in Treptow, Germany – 19 October 2020) was a German actress. She gained fame with her numerous appearances as an extra in more than 1000 cinema and television productions. Penski was born in 1927 in Treptow, the now Polish city of Trzebiatów. She had her first small film role in the Nazi propaganda film Kolberg already in 1944. After the end of the Second World War, she fled to the west in 1945, and later returned, but was again expelled. She lived in Magdeburg, Potsdam, and from 1958 in West Berlin. Until her retirement, she worked as a sports teacher. With her husband, who died at the end of the 1960s, she had two children.In 1987, Penski registered with an agency for film compars at the age of 60 and has since been frequently booked for various movies and television series.Examples of her appearances include the films Der Himmel über Berlin and In weite Fern, so close! by Wim Wenders, Sonnenallee and Hai-Alarm at the Müggelsee by Leander Haußmann and several films by Til Schweiger (Zweiohrküken, Kokowaäh, 11⁄2 Ritter etc.).She also took on small roles in a crime scene episode and in the Oscar-winning short film Spielzeugland. Penski's short film "With Wrinkles on Film" also deals with Penski's career. Penski gained fame in 2014 in particular through a greater role in a Deutsche Telekom commercial, which also dealt with her life.In that year, she also received an invitation for the German Film Award.In 2015, Penski published her autobiography entitled Dreams do not age.