HILDEGARD KNEF: ICH GLAUB, 'NE DAME WERD' ICH NIE

From the series "Berliner Persönlichkeiten"

HILDEGARD KNEF: ICH GLAUB, 'NE DAME WERD' ICH NIE
Portrait of a modern woman

With: Carl Martin Spengler (acting and singing) and Jürgen Beyer (piano)
Musical direction: Jürgen Beyer | Text: Ildoko Bognar | Musical arrangement: Ute Falkenau
Set design: Alexander Barmenkov | Illustration: Angelina Dashkevic | Costume design: Tatjana Hajdukova | Costume assistant: Angelina Dashkevic

Running time: approx. 1 hr 50 min. (including an interval after approx. 50 min.) | Premiere: 19 May 2023

"Face of the zero hour", "the unspoiled girl from the rubble", "the second Dietrich" - Hildegard Knef was given many labels. But who was the woman really, the one who built not one but three careers: as an actress, a chanson singer, and an author?

Through her texts and songs, this production paints a picture of Knef as someone who never settled for the ordinary, lived a life of extremes, and whose refusal to conform always put her ahead of her time. She died in Berlin in 2002, aged 76.