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Hildegard Knef - Seeräuber Jenny ( Pirate Jenny )
Knef was one of the greatest singers and actress`of Germany. The original german version by Berthold Brecht / Music : Kurt Weill
She had also the leading part in the movie.
Here: With the Kurt Edelhagen Orchester
Video duration: 194 seconds
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Hildegard Knef - Wieviel Menschen waren glücklich, dass Du gelebt ? Listen to german actress, author and singer Hildegard Knef, also known as Hildegarde Neff - starring in Cole Porters "Silk Stockings" on Broadway
Video duration: 318 seconds
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About her hardest times in the 70s with this illness , the death at the door, the husband who left her at that time and her 5 years old child Christina and then after all becoming healthy again. - Cutted in parts out of two films about her.
Video duration: 188 seconds
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Last Tour 3 - "Ich brauch´Tapetenwechse l" (sprach die Birke) = ( I need a change of scenery said the birch ). One of her very ironic lyrics with black humor.
Lyrics written by Hilde Knef 1970.
Last tour , Hilde with about 60 years.
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Last tour 1 (start) with "In dieser Stadt". Hilde is here over 60 years old and made this last tour . You see the beginning with her stagefright: The man who hold Hilde´s hand at the last minute before it begins is her husband , Baron von Schell.
Of course, I was also there.
In dieser Stadt (In this town) was in nearly all Knef-concerts the first song.
Video duration: 175 seconds
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Last Tour 4 - "Berlin, dein Gesicht hat Sommersprossen" (Berlin, your face has freckles).
Funny song about the too big and too flat town Berlin with all it´s ugly and beautiful sides ; but it´s a lovesong to this city.
Lyrics written by Hilde Knef.
Video duration: 213 seconds
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Hildegard Knef - Her Super Hit: "Eins und Eins das macht Zwei" ( One and one that makes two ); was a big hit in Germany and in several other countries.---------- --
The funny and philosophic text says that we all are not made for a life alone ( "one" ). We are made for a life with one other person ( one and one ); and sometimes there are several.....
Video duration: 144 seconds
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Von nun an ging´s bergab (From here on it gets rough or From now on it´s going down )--- a kind of early music clip with artificial auditorium in fashion of that time (the life act is better-look here on utube).
The famous lyrics written by Hilde Knef.
Funny and ironic text about her career and life with all the ups and downs....
Video duration: 130 seconds
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Ich brauch´ kein Venedig ( I don´t need any Venice); I need my pub at the corner, my hat with the green bow...............
Funny and ironic lyrics written by Hildegard Knef.
With the Orchester Kurt Edelhagen
Video duration: 386 seconds
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6 Min. about her (in general), seen from her and others. AND : Introduced by her SUPER HIT in the 60s : " So oder so ist das Leben" ( So or so is life ) and the wonderful romantic song "Meine Ostsee" (only beginning).
She is like a big river under the earth and all german speaking people in europe know that she is and keeps there !
At the end of the vid : "Wo einmal nichts war"
Video duration: 255 seconds
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Svengali, a British Movie from 1954. The part of Trilby is played by Hildegard Knef aka Hildegarde Neff, but these classis singing parts was made by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
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Hildegard Knef - Mame - The song "Mame" by Hermann.
Hildegard Knef was the most successful German actress , singer and writer after WW 2 till the end of the century. She died 2002.
Here with the Kurt Edelhagen Orchester