Hildegard Knef was one of the last great German divas.
Celebrated early on Broadway as an actress, internationally recognized as a bestselling author and acclaimed as an interpreter of her songs: a world star.
What has remained of her myth?
In the midst of old boxes of long-lost and partly forgotten objects, pictures, old clothes and autograph cards, the viewer encounters Knef when a man announces that she died this morning in a lung clinic in Berlin. The diva quickly declares him crazy - after all, she hasn't been as well as she is now for a long time.
In the field of tension between love and admiration on the one hand, attack, loss and the need to justify herself on the other, the figure of Hildegard Knef comes to life as a contradictory and multi-faceted character with her songs.
Hildegard Knef was born on December 25, 1925 in Ulm - "die Knef" found her final resting place in the Berlin-Zehlendorf forest cemetery. She was married three times, had a daughter from her second marriage and lived to the age of 76. She became an American citizen in 1950 and was granted German citizenship again in 2001 - just a few months before her death.
There willbe a free introduction to the play by Linda Keil and Lasse Schulte at this event.
begins at 7.15 pm in the auditorium.
With the kind support of Sparkasse Hellweg-Lippe.
Supported by Kultursekretariat NRW Gütersloh and
by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.