Ute Lemper

1988 in Paris. The phone rings and Ute Lemper can't believe that Marlene Dietrich is on the phone. The two have a three-hour phone conversation - what a precious gift for the then 23-year-old Ute Lemper. The grande dame called her aspiring young colleague to thank her for her mail. After Ute Lemper received the French MOLIERE Award for her performance in "CABARET" in Paris, she wrote a postcard to Marlene Dietrich, directly to 12 Avenue de Montaigne, where Marlene had lived since 1979. And then the phone rings.

They talk about their lives, their work and their style, their love for Rilke, their complicated relationship with Germany, their sadness and their fascinations. How one would love to be a fly on the wall and listen to the two show ladies. Ute Lemper was at the beginning of her theater and music career. Marlene Dietrich, on the other hand, looked back on a long, full life full of films, music, incredible collaborations, love stories and fame.
1992 in Berlin. Six days before Ute Lemper's premiere in the role of Lola in "DER BLAUE ENGEL" at the Theater des Westens - in the very role that had made Marlene a star in 1928 - Marlene Dietrich dies in Paris. After the glamorous funeral in La Madeleine, Marlene finally returned to Berlin to find her final resting place.
Ute Lemper, by now a world star herself and for a long time considered the "new Marlene", tells us about it in her new program, takes us 30 years into the past and lets us participate in her conversation with Marlene. She tells us Marlene's story and sings her fabulous songs from all chapters of her life, from the Berlin cabaret years to her fabulous collaboration with Burt Bacharach.