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Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef{{efn|German: [ˈhɪldəɡaʁt ˈkneːf] ; was an actress, singer, and writer from Ulm in Germany. She became a US citizen in 1950, but renewed her German citizenship in 2001.
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entertainment · German actress (1925–2002) · actor · writer · singer · autobiographer · stage actor · film actor · television actor · recording artist · chansonnier · also Hildegard Knef, Hildegard Neff, Hildegarde Neff, Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef, Knef
Born 28 December 1925 · Died 1 February 2002 · Q57604
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“t understand the tumult that the film was creating. She wrote that it was totally absurd that people considered her nudity to be scandalous, as Germany was the country that had created Auschwitz and had caused so much horror. She also wrote,”
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Published video “Hildegard Knef - Meine Lieder sind anders (Musik ist Trumpf, 05.03.1977)”.
Published video “Hildegard Knef - Medley (Musik ist Trumpf, 05.03.1977)”.
Published video “Hildegard Knef - Such das Schöne (feat. Les Humphries Singers) (Tapetenwechsel, 1971)”.
Published video “Hildegard Knef - Schmelzen Butterblumen (Tapetenwechsel, 1971)”.
Published video “Hildegard Knef - Ich wart auf die Nacht (feat. Les Humphries Singers) (Tapetenwechsel, 1971)”.
Published video “Hildegard Knef - Dreizehn Fische (feat. Les Humphries Singers) (Tapetenwechsel, 1971)”.
Published video “Hildegard Knef - Worum geht's hier eigentlich? (feat. Les Humphries Singers) (Tapetenwechsel, 1971)”.
Published video “Hildegard Knef feat. Les Humphries Singers - Was, dir gehts gut (Tapetenwechsel, 28.10.1971)”.
Published video “Hildegard Knef - Wieviel Menschen waren glücklich, dass du gelebt (Tapetenwechsel, 28.10.1971)”.
CounterPunch: Hildegard Knef’s Century
Published video “Hildegard Knef - Hildegard Knef und ihre Lieder (13.04.1975) (Full Show)”.
TV Guide: A Woman and a Half: Hildegard Knef - Where to Watch
Variety: Hildegard Knef
Released album “Aber schön war es doch”.
Sydney Morning Herald: Hildegard/Knef review: One-woman Fringe show an eye-catching ode to German star
Released album “Hildegard Knef - Die Seeräuber-Jenny”.
Released album “Remixed (12 Versions by Hans Nieswandt)”.
Released album “Original Album Series”.
Released album “Hilde: Das Beste von Hildegard Knef”.
Released album “Die Hildegard Knef Album-Edition: 1972-1980, Volume 1: Und ich dreh’ mich nochmal um / Ich bin den weiten Weg gegangen”.
Released album “Die Hildegard Knef Album-Edition: 1972-1980, Volume 2: Applaus / Bei dir war es immer so schön”.
Released album “Die Hildegard Knef Album-Edition: 1972-1980, Volume 4: Heimweh-Blues / Da ist eine Zeit...”.
Released album “Die Hildegard Knef Album-Edition: 1972-1980”.
Released album “Große Erfolge & Raritäten”.
Released album “Die Hildegard Knef Album-Edition: 1972-1980, Volume 3: Lausige Zeiten / Überall blühen Rosen”.
Released album “From Here on It Got Rough: The Best of Her English Recordings”.
Released album “Ich bin den weiten Weg gegangen”.
Released album “Schöne Zeiten – Ihre unvergessenen Singles”.
Released album “Für mich soll's rote Rosen regnen - Live 1986”.
Released album “Platinum Stars”.
Released album “Fraulein Wonder”.
Released album “A Woman and a Half”.
Released album “Portrait”.
Released album “In Concert”.
Released album “The Reform Sessions”.
Died 2002-02-01.
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To Paul Rudolf Freiherr von Schell zu Bauschlott who came from an old line of Austrian-Hungarian nobility (born Nov
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On 1 February 2002, Knef died at the age of 76 of a lung infection in Berlin, where she had moved after German reunification.
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Released album “In Memoriam”.
Released album “Nichts haut mich um ...”.
Awarded Echo Pop Honorary Award (2000).
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Released album “Ihre größten Erfolge: Live in Concert”.
Released album “Ich sing dein Lied”.
Released album “17 Millimeter”.
Awarded Berliner Bär (1996).
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Released album “Für mich soll’s rote Rosen regnen”.
Released album “Wunderbar!”.
Released album “The Great Hildegard Knef”.
Awarded Helmut Käutner Prize (1993).
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Released album “Für mich soll’s rote Rosen regnen: Ihre 20 schönsten Songs”.
Released album “Ihre großen Erfolge”.
Released album “Idole”.
Released album “Concert: Ihre größten Erfolge”.
Released album “Ihre Freunde nennen sie Hilde (1951-1980)”.
Released ep “Hildegard Knef”.
Released album “Da ist eine Zeit...”.
Released album “Überall blühen Rosen”.
Released album “Heimweh-Blues”.
Released album “Lausige Zeiten”.
And for which she won an award for best actress at the International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary, then Czechoslovakia
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Released album “Bei dir war es immer so schön”.
Awarded Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1975).
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Released album “Applaus”.
Released album “Und ich dreh’ mich nochmal um”.
Released album “Worum geht’s hier eigentlich?”.
Released album “Portrait in Musik”.
Released album “Knef”.
Released album “Hildegard Knef singt Cole Porter”.
Released album “Knef Concert”.
Released album “Halt mich fest”.
Released album “Ich seh die Welt durch deine Augen”.
Released album “So hat alles seinen Sinn”.
Released album “Hildegard Knef spricht und singt Tucholsky”.
Released album “Hildegard Knef”.
Released album “Illusionen”.
Released album “So oder so ist das Leben”.
Started a concert and recording career, and she surprised her audiences with the deep, smoky quality of her voice and with lyrics she wrote herself
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Released ep “Aber schön war es doch”.
Released album “Die geliebte Stimme”.
Knef was offered a starring role in the Broadway musical Silk Stockings by Cole Porter, which was based on the 1939 film Ninotchka, which had starred Greta Garbo in the title role
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Played the lead in the controversial melodrama Die Sünderin , before relocating to New York City, where she starred in the musical Silk Stockings
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But renewed her German citizenship in 2001
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Received the best-actress award from the Locarno Film Festival because of her role in the film Film Without a Title
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By the DEFA (East German state film company) and the first film released after the Second World War in East Germany; and Marina in Die Sünderin (The Sinner), in which she performed a brief nude scene, the first in German
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Knef had a love-affair with Ewald von Demandowsky, a script editor for "films of the Reich", who was also head of production at the film company Tobis
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Knef shot some scenes, which would have marked her film debut, but these were left out of the final cut
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The film head, Wolfgang Liebeneiner took notice of her, and she begain training as an actress
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Her mother married Wilhelm Wulfestieg, a master shoemaker and leather goods manufacturer
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Born 1925-12-28.
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The daughter of Hans Theodor Knef, a tobacco merchant of Flemish heritage and decorated First World War veteran, and his wife Frieda Auguste Knef (née Gröhn)
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Hildegard Knef was born in Ulm in 1925, the daughter of Hans Theodor Knef, a tobacco merchant of Flemish heritage and decorated First World War veteran, and his wife Frieda Auguste Knef (née Gröhn).
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