In the organizer's words:

HILDEGARD KNEF - IT SHOULD RAIN RED ROSES FOR ME

Chanson evening

With Meike Fabian and Ulli Forster on the piano

Hildegard Knef - one of the few international stars Germany has ever had. She was friends with Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn Monroe. In Germany she was often controversial, she was loved and hated, in America she was the first German Broadway star.

Hildegard Knef's path and life were often rocky and she had to fight hard for many things. Much admired and sometimes blatantly rejected. The woman with the unmistakable image: the deep, smoky, wicked tenor voice whose melodies all men could sing along to in the same octave. As many highs as her career had, it had just as many lows. Hildegard Knef remained a driven woman all her life.

Meike Fabian reads texts about the eventful life of the last German diva and sings her songs, accompanied by Ulli Forster on the piano.