In the organizer's words:

Ella Fitzgerald said of Hildegard Knef that she was "the greatest singer without a voice". It was enough for a world career: as an actress, as a singer and as a writer. Knef would have been one hundred years old in December 2025. An icon to this day. Hildegard Knef was at least one and a half women. The first female international star that Germany produced after the Second World War. Hilde Knef was a stand-up woman. Diva with attitude. Artificial eyelashes and down-to-earth. Her heart was in the right place, no, better: in the left; because she took a courageous stand against all things bourgeois. She wore her heart on her sleeve. Honest. Vulnerable. Ruthless and weak and strong. A fallen angel when she returned to Germany from the USA, a phoenix from the ashes when she landed a world bestseller with her autofictional novel "Der geschenkte Gaul" and filled concert halls on her tours.

It's time to (re)discover Hildegard Knef. She and her unmistakable songs - from hits such as "Für mich soll's rote Rosen regnen" or "Von nun an ging's bergab" to rarely performed rarities. One critic said that Hildegard Knef had "single-handedly brought German pop music to maturity" as a singer and lyricist. She didn't sing about an ideal world, but about one-night stands and love that fails, chansons that are short stories, sophisticated and wicked. An inspiration for generations of people. An artist who has something to say. And to sing.


Performance rights: Funkturm Verlag, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
freely adapted from an idea by Vasco Boenisch and Katrin Lindner

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