In this episode, DLS co-founder Katy Derbyshire has the story of a deutsche Diva — an iconic German actress and singer and best-selling author known for her glamour and scandal, her smoky voice and sweeping false eyelashes. Hildegard Knef was also an unreliable narrator and a serial fabulator who was alternately loved and hated in her homeland.
Producer/host Susan Stone is joined by other DLS co-founder Florian Duijsens to introduce our featured Dead Lady.
Also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, and Acast. You can find the transcript, created by Rachel Pronger, here.
Show notes:
The Gift Horse has a lot to answer for.
Good times after launching her writing career
If you’d like to watch Hildegard knocking Germany’s socks off on screen, try Florian’s favourite Alraune, aka Unnatural, the Fruit of Evil, in which she plays the perfect result of an artificial insemination of a prostitute with a murderer’s semen.
Or the pretty darn good The Sinner.
For some top tunes, how about this playlist?
And here’s the info on the English-language compilation, From Here on It Gets Rough.
The Studs Terkel interview (in English) is available here at his Radio Archive.
Our theme music is “Little Lily Swing” by Tri-Tachyon.
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