Hochgeladen am 11.12.2009 EVELYN KÜNNEKE - Im Hotel ist immer Freitag mit HANS CARSTE Orchester (1941) Eva-Susanne Künneke (Evelyn Künneke), singer, dancer and actress: born Berlin 15 December 1921; died Berlin 27 April 2001. The last survivor of the Lili Marlene Generation, Evelyn Künneke was a veteran cabaret singer who made a second career out of lampooning herself when she appeared on stage in a show entitled Three Old Bags together with two other stars of another era, Helen Vita and Brigitte Mira. The three singers had a combined age of just about 240 years, they gleefully informed the public at their sell-out performances. She was born Eva-Susanne Künneke in 1921 in Berlin as daughter of Eduard Künneke, a successful operetta composer, and Katharina Zwanziger, an opera singer; and later took Evelyn as a stage name. Despite the fact that her father thought little of her artistic talents and despite her being, in her own opinion, knock-kneed, short-sighted, far too tall, and unable to escape my fathers shadow, her ambitions proved irrepressible. A swimming champion at 14 and then in rapid succession chorus girl at the Berlin State Opera, a photographic model, night-club dancer, and, finally, starlet at Ufa, the German film studios. It was here that she finally managed her breakthrough in a 1941 film, Auf Wiedersehen, Franziska, in which she sang Sing Nachtigall, Sing (Sing, Nightingale, Sing), the second most popular hit of wartime Germany after Dietrichs Lili Marlene. Performing this hit to the troops, Künneke also became part of the German propaganda war. Despite her having some successes with swing numbers in the 1950s, Künnekes post-war career seemed to peter out until she found an unlikely collaborator in Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the radical and uncompromising film-maker, in the 1970s, who rediscovered her as a forthright witness of the Nazi period, ready to say and remember what others seemed to have forgotten. This rediscovery prompted Künneke to reinvent herself as the Callas of sub-culture who would show younger performers that her songs and her professionalism, both harking back to the Twenties and Thirties, could still attract sizeable audiences and revive the era of the pre-war cabaret. Musik Im Hotel Ist Immer Freitag von Evelyn Kunneke (Google Play • eMusic • iTunes) Kategorie Musik Lizenz Standard-YouTube-Lizenz
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