Marlene Dietrich (1901 ~ 1992)

Ryan Daw

25 April 2014

GER 101

Instructor: Gisela Reid

Marie Magdalene Dietrich Geburtsort: Schöneberg (Berlin)

Geburtsdatum: 27.12.1901

Sternzeichen: Steinbock

Vater: Louis Erich Otto

Mutter: Wilhelmina Elisabeth Josephine

Geschwister: Elisabeth (1900-1973)

Kinder: Maria Riva (Tochter) b. 1924

Mann: Rudolf Sieber (1897-1976)

Wohnort: Paris

Hauptwerke: „Lili Marlene“/ „Falling In Love Again“

Sprachen: Duetsch, Französisch, und Englisch

Enkel: vier

Early Career• She began her career as

a cabaret singer.

• She starred in over a

dozen silent films

• Then she moved on to

sound pictures

• The Blue Angel

(1930)

• “Falling In Love

Again”

http://youtu.be/a01ynT

ZemmQ

Entertaining the Allies

• Dietrich became a United States citizen in the late nineteen thirties.

• At the outbreak of World War II, she travelled to Europe and Africa to entertain the allied troops.

• She disliked Hitler and his Nazi regime.

• http://youtu.be/qPUMAFhfRHk

Stage Fright (1950)

• Stage Fright was directed by Alfred Hitchcock

• Marlene played an aging stage star who is the prime suspect in a murder

• This film restarted her career

• http://youtu.be/-RaBVjQZDNo

Marlene on Broadway

• In 1967, Dietrich made her made her long awaited Broadway debut in her own concert

• This was the highest attended concert of the 1967-1968 Broadway season

• Won a Tony Award

This is the playbill and record for her 1967 performance

Where Have All The Flowers Gone?

• This beautiful song was popular in the 1960’s

• It was Marlene’s favorite song

• In German: „Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind“

• She also did a cover of Bob Dylan‘s Blowin‘ In The Wind in 1965

German: http://youtu.be/aLAxbQxyJSQEnglish: http://youtu.be/VseETz8C48c

Later Life

• She retired from performing in 1976

• She died in Paris on 6 May 1992 at the age of 90

• Her funeral was at La Madeleine

• She was buried in Berlin close to her mother

• As the funeral car passed through Berlin, they drove through an open air market –passers by bought all the fresh cut flowers and tossed them on the casket

Marlene’s grave

Performing in London ~ 1972