Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef (; 28 December 19251 February 2002) was a German actress, voice actress, singer, and writer. She was billed in some English-language films as Hildegard Neff or Hildegarde Neff.

Early years

Hildegard Knef was born in

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in 1925. Her parents were Hans Theodor and Friede Augustine Knef. Her father, a decorated

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veteran, died when she was only six months old, and her mother moved to Berlin and worked in a factory. Knef began studying acting at age 14 in 1940. She left school at 15 to become an apprentice animator with

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. After she had a successful screen test, she went to the State Film School at

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, where she studied acting, ballet, and elocution. Joseph Goebbels, who was

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propaganda minister, wrote to her and asked to meet her, but Knef's friends wanted her to stay away from him.

German film career

Knef appeared in several films before the fall of

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, but most were released only afterward. During the Battle of Berlin she dressed as a soldier to stay with her lover,

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, and joined him in the defence of

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. The

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captured her and sent her to a prison camp. Her fellow prisoners helped her escape and return to

. Von Demandowsky was executed by the Russians on 7 October 1946, but before that he secured for Knef the protection of the well-known character actor

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. De Kowa gave her the opportunity to be a mistress of ceremonies in the theatre that he had opened. Knef also got a part in

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's ''Marius'', which was directed by

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and proved one of the German theatre's great plays. De Kowa also directed Knef in other plays by

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, Pagnol, and

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. Her two best known film roles were "Susanne Wallner" in Wolfgang Staudte's film ''

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'' (''The Murderers Are Among Us''), produced in 1946 by the East German state film company, and the first film released after the

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; and "Marina" in ''

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'' (''The Sinner''), in which she performed a brief nude scene, the first in German film history, which caused a scandal in 1950. The film was also criticised by the

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, which protested against the nude scene. Knef stated that she didn't understand the tumult that the film was creating. She wrote that it was totally absurd that people reacted in that manner and made a scandal because of her nudity as

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was a country that had created Auschwitz and had caused so much horror. She also wrote, "I had the scandal, the producers got the money." She performed in many films. In 1948, she received the best-actress award from the Locarno Film Festival because of her role in the film ''Film Without a Title''. Her successful singing career started in the 1960s once her film career was not going very well. She wrote some songs by herself. She performed in television shows such as in episodes of '' Scarecrow and Mrs. King'' and in a 2000 documentary in which she was playing by herself ''Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song''. In the 1960s she appeared in a number of such low-budget films as '' The Lost Continent''. She appeared in the 1975 screen adaptation of the

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novel, '' Every Man Dies Alone'' directed by

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, released in English as ''

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'' in 1976, and for which she won an award for best actress at the International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary, then

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Career in the United States

David O. Selznick invited her to Hollywood, but she refused to agree to the conditions of the contract which reportedly included changing her name to Gilda Christian and pretending to be

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n rather than German. Knef was cast as Hilde in the Hollywood film ''

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'' (1951), directed by

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and co-starring with

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and

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in a story about the later part of World War II. Hildegard Knef painting

The following year Knef's first husband, an American named Kurt Hirsch, encouraged her to try again for success in the U.S. She changed her name from Knef to Neff, but was only offered a supporting role in '' The Snows of Kilimanjaro'' (1952), an adaptation of an

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short story. Knef became a leading lady in films of Germany, France and Britain. Her reputation in the U.S. was hurt because of her nude scenes in the German film ''

'' (1950) and because she fell in love with a Nazi when she was 19. Finally, in 1955, Knef was offered a starring role in the Broadway musical '' Silk Stockings'' by Cole Porter, which was based on the 1939 film ''

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'', which had starred

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in the title role. Knef had acted in at least 30 films in the United States and Europe, but her triumph came in New York when she played Ninotchka, an unemotional Soviet commissar. ''The New York Times'' drama critic

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described her rendition as "an immensely skillful performance."

Singer

In the 1960s, Knef took a break from acting and started writing song lyrics. Then she started a successful concert and recording career. She began her singing career in the United States on

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. She began her new career in 1963 as a singer and surprised her audiences with the deep, smoky quality of her voice and the many lyrics, which she wrote herself. Fans around the world rallied in her support as she defeated cancer several times. She returned to Berlin after the reunification. In her peak, entertainment columnist called her the ""willowy blonde" who had "dusty voice" and "generous mouth". In the 1960s and 1970s, she enjoyed considerable success as a singer of German chansons, which she often co-wrote. The song she is mostly remembered for is "Für mich soll's rote Rosen regnen" ("Red roses are to rain for me"). She is also known for her version of the song "Ich hab noch einen Koffer in Berlin" ("I still have a suitcase in Berlin") and "Mackie Messer" ("

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").English lyrics for Mackie Messer by Hildegard Knef
She sold more than three million records in total. She launched 23 original albums which counted for 320 different songs. She wrote the lyrics for 130 songs herself.

Publications

She published several books. Her autobiography ''Der geschenkte Gaul: Bericht aus einem Leben'' (''The Gift Horse: Report on a Life'', 1970) was a candid recount of her life in Germany during and after the

, and reportedly became the best-selling German book in the post-war years. Her second book ''Das Urteil'' (''The Verdict'', 1975) was a moderate success, and dealt with her struggle with

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. Knef not only achieved international best-seller status, her books were also widely praised by critics because her autobiographies were "better-than-the-average celebrity's". Arthur Cooper of ''

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'' claimed that the way in which Knef accounted in ''The Gift Horse: Report on a Life'' her childhood and difficult life being an actress and singer while living in

and after the war in Europe and America, was "a bitterly honest book and a very good one". The book is not considered a book of " Hollywood-

gossip. The book doesn't try to persuade the public depicting a made up celebrity's adventures. It seems a book that tells the real life of Knef. It refers to her struggles as a German woman who grew up in

under the

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. The Gift Horse: Report on a Life was translated to English by Knef's second husband David Anthony Palastanga. In ''The Verdict'' which was also translated by Palastanga, Knef looked at her life in another perspective because she knew that she had cancer. Rachel MacKenzie wrote that Knef had her 56th operation, a mastectomy, in

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on 10 August 1973. MacKenzie stated that from that cancer surgery, life had to be thought of in terms of pre-verdict and post-verdict. The book is divided in these two sections but they are not chronologically ordered because Knef wrote the two sections in a way that the reader is moved forward and backward in time and space. ''The Verdict'' describes in great detail the hospital scenes as well as the doctors and nurses in New York,

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and

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where she was hospitalised. During her career, she performed in over 50 films. Nineteen of her films were produced in different countries other than Germany; They were produced in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Austria and Spain.

Personal life

Knef was married three times and divorced twice. Her first marriage was in 1947 to Kurt Hirsch. He was a U.S. information officer. They divorced in 1952. The second time she married the actor and record producer David Anthony Palastanga, on 30 June 1962. Knef had a daughter with him. They named her Christina Antonia. She attended public schools in Germany. When Knef was 47, she wrote a letter for her 5-year-old daughter. She wrote what she had learned; of beauty; of her grandfather's legacy about anti-human beings, of unconditional love and truth. She also wrote that the only mission of humans in this world was to serve in one form or other because she had noticed that those who didn't serve ended up as slaves. When she died, she was still married to her third husband, Paul von Schell. Knef died of a

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, where she had moved after German reunification, at the age of 76. She smoked heavily for most of her life and suffered from emphysema.

Selected filmography

* ''

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'' (1945) * '' Frühlingsmelodie'' (1945) - Zwilling ohne Leberfleck * '' Under the Bridges'' (1946) - Girl in Havelberg * ''

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'' (1946) - Susanne Wallner * '' Between Yesterday and Tomorrow'' (1947) - Das Mädchen Kat * ''

Film Without a Title ''Film Without a Title'' (German: ''Film ohne Titel'') is a 1948 German comedy film directed by Rudolf Jugert and starring Hans Söhnker, Hildegard Knef and Irene von Meyendorff.Shandley p.159 It was made by Bavaria Film at the Emelka Studios in M ...

'' (1948) - Christine Fleming * '' Journey to Happiness'' (1948) - Susanne Loevengaard * '' The Sinner'' (1951) - Marina * ''

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'' (1951) - Anita Weidner * ''

'' (1951) - Hilde * ''

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'' (1952) - Inge Hoffmann * '' Diplomatic Courier'' (1952) - Janine Betki * '' The Snows of Kilimanjaro'' (1952) - Countess Liz * ''

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'' (1952) - Lisa Muller * ''

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'' (1952) - Alraune * '' Henriette'' (1952) - Rita Solar * '' Illusion in a Minor Key'' (1952) - Lydia Bauer * ''

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'' (1953) - Bettina * '' A Love Story'' (1954) - Lili Schallweiß, Schauspielerin * '' It Was Always So Nice With You'' (1954) - Minor Role (uncredited) * '' Confession Under Four Eyes'' (1954) - Hilde Schaumburg-Garden * ''

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'' (1954) - Trilby * '' Escape from Sahara'' (1958) - Madeleine Durand * '' The Daughter of Hamburg'' (1958) - Maria * ''

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'' (1959) - Lilli Hoffman * '' The Man Who Sold Himself'' (1959) - Martina Schilling * ''La strada dei giganti'' (1960) - Maria Luisa di Borbone * '' No Orchids for Lulu'' (1962) - Baroness Geschwitz * ''Ipnosi'' (1962) * '' Caterina di Russia'' (1963) - Catherine the Great * '' Landru'' (1963) - Mme X. / Madame Ixe * ' (1963) - Jenny Diver * ''Ballade pour un voyou'' (1963) - Martha Schwartz * '' Das große Liebesspiel'' (1963) - Callgirl * ''

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'' (1964) - Elinor van Berg * ''

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'' (1964) - Laura Lorelli * ''

Condemned to Sin ''Condemned to Sin'' (German: ''Verdammt zur Sünde'') is a 1964 West German drama film directed by Alfred Weidenmann and starring Martin Held, Hildegard Knef and Heidelinde Weis.Goble p.1003 The film's sets were designed by the art director Hert ...

'' (1964) - Alwine * ''

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'' (1964) - Ilona Valdez * ''

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'' (1967) - (uncredited) * '' The Lost Continent'' (1968) - Eva Peters * ''

'' (1976) - Anna Quangel * '' Fedora'' (1978) - The Countess * ' (1980) - Peter's Mother * ''Der Gärtner von Toulouse'' (1982) - Frau Théophot * '' The Future of Emily'' (1984) - Mutter Paula * ''

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'' (1988) - Lady In Black * ''

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'' (1995) - (German Dub) * ''Eine fast perfekte Hochzeit'' (1999) - Marlene Wolf-Schönberg - Hennys Tante

References

External links

Hildegard Knef
in the German Dubbing Card Index * *
Fan site, officially authorized
(partly in English) * Ulrich E Bach: "The Woman Between: Hildegard Knef's Cold War Berlin Movie

In: Philip Broadbent & Sabine Hake (eds.) "Berlin: Divided City 1945-1989" (NYC: Berghahn Books, 2010): 115–125. {{DEFAULTSORT:Knef, Hildegard 1925 births 2002 deaths People from Ulm People from the Free People's State of Württemberg German film actresses German musical theatre actresses German stage actresses German women writers German autobiographers Actors from Baden-Württemberg Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Recipients of the Order of Merit of Berlin Deaths from emphysema Women autobiographers 20th-century German actresses 20th-century German women singers Burials at the Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf German prisoners of war in World War II held by the Soviet Union