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
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