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Will Quadflieg
Friedrich Wilhelm "Will" Quadflieg (September 15, 1914 – November 27, 2003) was a German actor from Oberhausen. He was the father of actor Christian Quadflieg. He is considered one of Germany's best post-war actors. One of his most widely recognized roles was in the title role in the 1960 film Faust. He also starred in a number of other roles. Quadflieg died from pulmonary embolism.
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Wolfgang Preiss
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Zarah Leander
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Leander, Zarah Filmography
- Herr Alsmann trifft Frau Hielscher (2011)
- Spisok korabley (2008)
- Bellaria - So lange wir leben! (2002)
- Ich sag' nicht ja, ich sag' nicht nein (2000)
- Vill ni se en stjärna (1999)
- Zijn geheim (1995)
- My Life for Zarah Leander (1986)
- Heimat - Eine deutsche Chronik (1984)
- Stjärna mot stjärna (1977)
- Herz mit Schnauze (1975)
- Ein Walzer zu zweien (1975)
- Schlager International (1967)
- Es funkeln die Sterne - Eine musikalische Silvesterreise um die Welt (1966)
- Come imparai ad amare le donne (1966)
- 1e vlaams schlagerfestival (1965)
- 1e vlaams schlagerfestival (1965)
- Das Blaue vom Himmel (1964)
- Der blaue Nachtfalter (1959)
- Das gab's nur einmal (1958)
- Jazzgossen (1958)
- Bei Dir war es immer so schön (1954)
- Ave Maria (1953)
- Cuba Cabana (1952)
- Gabriela (1950)
- Leckerbissen (1948)
- Totò al giro d'Italia (1948)
- Träumerei (1944)
- Damals (1943)
- Die große Liebe (1942)
- Wir erinnern uns gern (1941)
- Wir erinnern uns gern (1941)
- Der Weg ins Freie (1941)
- Das Herz der Königin (1940)
- Katharina I. von Russland (1940)
- Das Lied der Wüste (1939)
- Mona Lisa (1939)
- Es war eine rauschende Ballnacht (1939)
- Der Trichter. (Nr. II) (1939)
- Heimat (1938)
- Der Blaufuchs (1938)
- Die vier Gesellen (1938)
- Premiere (1937)
- La Habanera (1937)
- Zu neuen Ufern (1937)
- Äktenskapsleken (1935)
- Falska millionären (1931)
- Dantes mysterier (1931)
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- Gebundene Hände
- Eine Frau von heut'
- Merci, mon ami
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- Yes Sir!
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- Ich steh' im Regen
- Kinostar
- Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt
- Du kannst es nicht wissen
- Eine Frau wird erst schön durch die Liebe
- Drei Sterne sah ich scheinen
- Sag' mir nicht adieu
- Cherie
- Du bist genau wie die Anderen
- Ich bin eine Stimme
- Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein
- Schiff ahoi
- ... und dann tanz' ich einen Czardas
- Wen ich liebe
- Die lustige Witwe (Potpourri)
- Ich will nicht vergessen
- Ich sag' nicht ja, ich sag' nicht nein
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- Davon geht die Welt nicht unter
- Blaue Husaren (Heut' kommen die blauen Husaren)
- So glücklich wie du und so selig wie ich
- Ich hab' Angst vor dir und der Liebe
- Jede Nacht ein neues Glück
- Einen wie dich könnt' ich lieben
- Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein
- Von der Puszta will ich träumen
- Du bist genau wie die anderen
- Ich bin eine Stimme
- Sagt dir eine schöne Frau "Vielleicht"
- Fatme, erzähl mir ein Märchen
- Nur nicht aus Liebe weinen
- Fäll inga kärlekstarar
- Romans (Romanze)
- Köp en ros fran Bois de Boulogne
- Schlafe, mein Geliebter
- Wo ist dein Herz
- Schlummerlied (Schlafe ein)
- Er heißt Waldemar
- Fran topp till ta (Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt)
- Stockholm blir Stockholm
- Viljasängen (Vilja-Lied)
- Zigenare, du tog mitt hjärta (Zigeuner, Du hast mein Herz gestohlen)
- I jazzens virvel
- God afton, vackra mask
- Eine Frau von heut'
- Kinostar! (Chanson)
- Ich hab' vielleicht noch nie geliebt
- Merci, mon ami, es war wunderschön
- Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt
- So bin ich und so bleibe ich, Yes Sir!
- Ich steh' im Regen
- Ich hab' eine tiefe Sehnsucht in mir
- Eine Frau wird erst schön durch die Liebe
- Drei Sterne sah ich scheinen
- Cherie ... du bist heut' so anders
- Ich sag' nicht Ja - Ich sag' nicht Nein
- Mein Leben für die Liebe
- Ich weiß, es wird einmal ein Wunder gescheh'n
- Davon geht die Welt nicht unter
- Blaue Husaren
- Einen wie Dich könnt' ich lieben
- Jede Nacht ein neues Glück
- Ich habe Angst vor dir
- So glücklich wie du
- Potpourri aus 'Die lustige Witwe' (1)
- Potpourri aus 'Die lustige Witwe' (2)
- Frag mich nicht, ob ich dich liebe
- Lass mich gehen
- Ich bin eine Frau, die nicht lügt
- Wenn der Herrgott will, leuchten alle Sterne
- Wann wirst du mich fragen
- Irgendwo, irgendwann fängt ein kleines Märchen an
- Un désir pour toi
- Le vent m'a dit une chanson
- Yes, Sir !
- Il pleut sans trêve
- Det vore na't fur mej
- Stockholm blir Stockholm
- Jag är blott en stackars liten kvinna
- Champagnenatt
- Gebundene Hände
- Eine Frau von heut
- Den sista valsen
- Merci mon ami
- Ich hab vielleicht noch nie geliebt
- Sehnsucht
- Kinostar!
- Du kannst es nicht wissen
- Eine Frau wird erst schön durch die Liebe
- Drei Sterne sah ich scheinen
- Von der Puszta will ich träumen
- Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein…?
- Romanze op. 5
- Ich sag nicht ja – Ich sag nicht nein!
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- Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein
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- Ich steh' im Regen
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- Nur nicht aus Liebe weinen
- Yes, Sir
- Ich weiss, es wird einmal ein Wunder gescheh'n
- Ich hab' eine tiefe Sehnsucht in mir
- Drei Sterne sah ich scheinen
- Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt
- Er heisst Waldemar
- Merci, mon ami, es war wunderschön
- Mein Leben für die Liebe
- Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein
- Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt
- Von der Puszta will ich träumen
- Er heißt Waldemar
- Yes Sir!
- Ich weiß, es wird einmal ein Wunder gescheh'n
- Merci, mon ami
- Ich steh' im Regen
- Ein paar Tränen werd' ich weinen um dich
- Blaue Husaren
- Davon geht die Welt nicht unter
- Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein
- Eine Frau wird erst schön durch die Liebe
- Wenn der Herrgott will
- Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt
- Ich weiß, es wird einmal ein Wunder geschehn
- Er heißt Waldemar
- Merci, mon ami
- Wunderbar
- Nur nicht aus Liebe weinen
- Du darfst mir nie mehr rote Rosen schenken
- Davon geht die Welt nicht unter
- Ich steh' im Regen
- Mein Leben für die Liebe
- Yes Sir!
- Reite, kleiner Reiter
- Sag mir nicht "Adieu" - sag mir "Auf Wiedersehn"
- Daran zerbricht man doch nicht
- Davon geht die Welt nicht unter
- Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt
- Eine Frau wird erst schön durch die Liebe
- Einmal kommt die Liebe
- Er heisst Waldemar
- Ich hab' eine tiefe Sehnsucht in mir
- Ich steh' im Regen
- Ich weiss, es wird einmal ein Wunder gescheh'n
- Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein
- Merci, mon ami, es war wunderschön
- Nachts ging das Telefon
- Nur nicht aus Liebe weinen
- Schön war die Zeit
- Warum soll eine Frau kein Verhältnis haben
- Yes Sir
- Mein Leben für die Liebe
- Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein
- Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt
- Von der Puszta will ich träumen
- Er heißt Waldemar
- Yes, Sir
- Ich weiß, es wird einmal ein Wunder gescheh'n
- Merci, mon amour
- Ich steh' im Regen
- Ein paar Tränen werd' ich weinen um dich
- Blaue Husaren
- Davon geht die Welt nicht unter
- Irgendwo, irgendwann fängt ein kleines Märchen an
- Wunderbar
- Eine Frau wird erst schön durch die Liebe
- Nur nicht aus Liebe weinen
- Von der Puszta will ich träumen
- Ein kleiner Akkord
- Nur nicht aus Liebe weinen
- Schlafe mein Geliebter
- Wo ist dein Herz?
- Schlummerlied
- Fatme erzähl' mir ein Märchen
- Sagt dir eine schöne Frau 'vielleicht'
- Heut' abend lad' ich mir die Liebe ein
- Ein paar Tränen
- Reite, kleiner Reiter
- Schiff ahoi
- Du darfst mir nie mehr rote Rosen schenken
- Und dann tanz ich einen Czardas
- Er heißt Waldemar
- Wen ich liebe
- Ich will nicht vergessen
- Du bist der, bei dem' möglich wär
- Du darfst mir nie mehr rote Rosen schenken
- Eine Frau wird erst schön durch die Liebe
- Ich bin eine Stimme
- Ich sag' nicht ja, ich sag' nicht nein
- Jede Nacht ein neues Glück
- Kinostar
- Lang ist's her
- Reite, kleiner Reiter
- Warum brauchen denn die Männer so viel Liebe
- Wen ich liebe
- Wunderbar
- Servus, sagt die schöne Stadt der Lieder
- Zarah-Leander-Welterfolge
- Sag' mir nicht ''Adieu'', sag' nur ''Auf Wiederseh'n''
- Wunderbar
- Warum brauchen denn die Männer so viel Liebe
- Der Gassenjunge
- Servus, sagt die schöne Stadt der Lieder
- Toselli-Serenade
- Du bist der, bei dem's möglich wär
- Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt
- Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein
- Schöne Sommernacht
- Wenn Mademoiselle dich küßt
- Mademoiselle de Paris
- Ich steh' im Regen
- Ich weiß, es wird einmal ein Wunder gescheh'n
- Waldemar
- Miss Annabella Lee
- Yes Sir, That's My Baby
- Ain't She Sweet
- Merci, mon ami
- Yes, Sir
- Wunderbar
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zarah leander ich weiss es wird einmal ein wunder geschehn
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- Duration: 2:16
- Published: 15 Apr 2007
- Updated: 28 Sep 2012
zarah in the movie" die grosse liebe" of 1942. its a wonderful lovesong, written by michael jary and bruno balz.the song was not by any means meant as propaganda from both. the songwriter balz was arrested for some weeks from gestapo and jary helped him become released.
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Zarah Leander - Bei mir bist du schön (1938)
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- Duration: 2:43
- Published: 10 Mar 2008
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
Zarah's rendition of Sholom Secunda's famed song, recorded in Stockholm, April 1938. B-side is "Budapest", see video response. Enjoy! For Scene and close-ups of Zarah Leander set to a dramatic tango by Barnabas von Geczy : www.youtube.com All pictures/images from personal collection
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zarah leander adieu 1977
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- Duration: 3:27
- Published: 26 Feb 2007
- Updated: 28 Sep 2012
one of my favourite song with pictures i love!
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zarah leander nur nicht aus liebe weinen
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- Duration: 3:07
- Published: 02 Apr 2007
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
zarah in lovelorn, sang a great song of theo mackeben in the film " es war eine rauschende ballnacht". phenomenally voice and full of livewire!
http://wn.com/zarah_leander_nur_nicht_aus_liebe_weinen
Zarah Leander - Das gibt's nur einmal (1932)
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- Duration: 3:11
- Published: 17 Mar 2008
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
The legendary movie "Der Kongress tanzt" (aka "Le congres s'amuse"/"Congress dances") revolutionized the movie musical... In this movie starring Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch, Lilian as Christl sings the song 'Das gibt's nur einmal' while driving in a carriage through Vienna and surroundings on her way to a castle. As she sings, the people alongside the road and working in the fields join her in the chorus of the song. This movie, directed by Eric Charell, became a tremendous succes and was made in a German, French and English version... The song,also known as Christl's song became as legendary as the movie... Charell had to leave Germany as did the composer Werner Richard Heymann and Conrad Veidt in 1933 and the movie was banned between 1937 and 1945. Zarah Leander recorded her Swedish version in 1932... I included a slideshow of the stars of the picture... I hope you will enjoy it! All images/pictures from personal collection. For a video starring Zarah Leander and set to a dramatic tango by Barnabas von Geczy : www.youtube.com
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Zarah Leander - Parlami d'amore Mariu(Swedish Version)
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- Duration: 3:33
- Published: 11 Mar 2008
- Updated: 23 Sep 2012
The song "Le chaland qui passe" was an enormous hit for French singer Lys Gauty in 1933. It was a translation of the Italian song "Parlami d'amore Mariu" (recorded by Tino Rossi and others). In 1934 Zarah Leander, accompanied by the orchestra of her husband to be, Arne Hülphers, recorded a Swedish version, which in translation means "Love is new every day". Enjoy! All pictures/Images from personal collection
http://wn.com/Zarah_Leander_Parlami_d'amore_MariuSwedish_Version
zarah leander wunderbar 1972
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- Duration: 2:33
- Published: 19 Aug 2007
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
zarah sang this song from the musical "kiss me kate" since 1949 on every concert. she and her audience loved it, yes it was "wunderbarrrrr"
http://wn.com/zarah_leander_wunderbar_1972
zarah leander yesterday 1972
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- Duration: 2:17
- Published: 22 Apr 2007
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
zarah leander loves the beatles, in 1972 she recording yesterday. she sang it by her own style,lofty,tragical and silkiness
http://wn.com/zarah_leander_yesterday_1972
Zarah Leander Weisse Weihnacht 1953 (White Christsmas)"NOEL BLANC"
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- Duration: 3:01
- Published: 10 Dec 2008
- Updated: 29 Aug 2012
Composed by Irving Berlin "WEISSE WEIHNACHT"German Lyrics by Bruno Balz Zarah Leander sings 1953 on Ariola Records
http://wn.com/Zarah_Leander_Weisse_Weihnacht_1953_White_ChristsmasNOEL_BLANC
Zarah Leander Berliner Luft
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- Duration: 2:36
- Published: 12 Nov 2008
- Updated: 28 Sep 2012
Musik by Paul Lincke from the film Frau Luna
http://wn.com/Zarah_Leander_Berliner_Luft
zarah leander "la habanera " kinderlieder
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- Duration: 4:04
- Published: 15 Apr 2007
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
zarah leander in la habanera, she sing to childsongs,charming her play with the boy. both songs were written by douglas sirk the director of la habanera.
http://wn.com/zarah_leander_la_habanera_kinderlieder
zarah leander "kann denn liebe sünde sein?"
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- Duration: 2:17
- Published: 15 Apr 2007
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
zarah leander sings " kann denn liebe sünde sein?" ( can love be a sin?)no, naturally not, a daring song for at that time. the song text was written by bruno balz, a homosexual and a very good friend of zarah.
http://wn.com/zarah_leander_kann_denn_liebe_sünde_sein?
Zarah Leander & Sven-Olof Sandberg sing "The Merry Widow", 1940
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- Duration: 8:25
- Published: 28 Dec 2008
- Updated: 17 Aug 2012
Zarah Leander, Sven-Olof Sandberg & Orchester und Chor, Gesamtltg. von Otto Dobrindt - Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow Potpourri, part 1,2) (Musik: Franz Lehár, Text: Victor Léon/ Leo Stein), Odeon 1940 NOTE: Sven-Olof SANDBERG (b.1905, Stockholm, d. 1974, Danderyd, Sweden) Swedish baritone singer. In 1924 he started public performances in a summer theatre in Stockholm, but he owes his great popularity in Sweden to his radio programms, starting in 1927. In the years 1940 -1944 he had engagement in the Stockholm Opera. Zarah LEANDER (Sara Stina Hedberg) (1907 -1981) Swedish film actress who made her great career in the Nazi Germany. That green-eyed and red haired diva was one of the brightest stars of the Third Reich film industry, launched by Goebbels propaganda as „Nazi-Deutsche Grete Garbo" and a worthy heiress of Marlene Dietrich, after her „traitorous emigration from Vaterland to America", in 1933. She acted in the hugest German film productions: „La Habanera", „Zu neuen Ufern" (Towards New Shores) (1937), „Heimat" and „Blaufuchs" (1938), „Es war eine rauschende Ballnacht" (It Was A Breathtaking Ball Night) (1939), „Der Weg ins Freie" (Way To Freedom) (1941), „Damals" (Long Ago) (1943). Leander rejected numerous proposals from France and even from Hollywood to join the international great movie star family; instead, she remained honest to UFA, being rewarded by her nazi-homeland with one of the highest actors salaries ever paid in Germany (ca.180 000 Reichsmarks <b>...</b>
http://wn.com/Zarah_Leander_Sven-Olof_Sandberg_sing_The_Merry_Widow,_1940
Zarah Leander sings "Sang om Syrsor" at her last TV show
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- Duration: 3:53
- Published: 18 Oct 2008
- Updated: 01 Sep 2012
Zarah Leander and Birgit Nilsson meet together at the famous swedish TV show "Stjärna mot stjärna" on 25th december 1977.
http://wn.com/Zarah_Leander_sings_Sang_om_Syrsor_at_her_last_TV_show
Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt
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- Duration: 3:41
- Published: 23 Mar 2007
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
Originaltitel: La Habanera (D, 1937) Regie: Detlef Sierck Darsteller: Zarah Leander Ferdinand Marian Karl Martell
http://wn.com/Der_Wind_hat_mir_ein_Lied_erzählt
Zarah Leander - Kinostar! (from "Axel an der Himmelstür")
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- Duration: 3:05
- Published: 09 May 2008
- Updated: 07 Sep 2012
A song from the musical comedy "Axel an der Himmelstür" (Axel at heaven's gates) composed by Ralph Benatzky. It premiered in Vienna in 1936 and made Zarah Leander famous outside Scandinavia. In fact she was somewhat of an overnight sensation as her deep voice was considered very novel in a country used to classical operetta... "Kinostar" became the most famous song the others being "Eine frau von heut'" and "Gebundene Hände". Her succes led to her starring in the Austrian musical picture "Premiere" and eventually her contract with the German UFA studios... Slideshow of Zarah Leander. All pictures/images from personal collection. Enjoy!
http://wn.com/Zarah_Leander_Kinostar!_from_Axel_an_der_Himmelstür
Zarah Leander - Schiff ahoi!, 1940
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- Duration: 3:10
- Published: 17 Dec 2009
- Updated: 04 Sep 2012
Zarah Leander mit Orchester & Chor, Ltg. Michael Jary - Schiff ahoi! (Ship, ahoi!) (Michael Jary /Bruno Balz), Odeon 1940 (Germany) NOTE: The slideshow contains photos from "Querelle" - a 1982 film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, adapted from French author Jean Genet's 1947 novel "Querelle de Brest", with Jeanne Moreau, one of greatest French film actresses in history and a dark-passionate and sexually ambiguous role of American actor Brad Davis. The film was released posthumously, after Fassbinder's death from drug overdose in June 1982.
http://wn.com/Zarah_Leander_Schiff_ahoi!,_1940
Nina Hagen Live - Wunderbar (Zarah Leander Cover) - 1986 TV Show
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- Duration: 2:07
- Published: 12 Apr 2009
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
Nina Hagen Live - Nina Hagens TV-Show 1986 - Wunderbar - Zarah Leander Cover
http://wn.com/Nina_Hagen_Live_Wunderbar_Zarah_Leander_Cover_1986_TV_Show
zarah leander farväl 1972
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- Duration: 2:57
- Published: 26 Feb 2007
- Updated: 15 Sep 2012
this song was written for her parting tour.
http://wn.com/zarah_leander_farväl_1972
zarah leander a tiny tiny voice
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- Duration: 3:01
- Published: 06 Dec 2006
- Updated: 09 Aug 2012
a comedy stunt from fabricated pompe (konstgjorda pompe) with zarah and hülphers showing all that they were upd with the latest style of music.
http://wn.com/zarah_leander_a_tiny_tiny_voice
zarah leander davon geht die welt nicht unter
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- Duration: 2:28
- Published: 27 Apr 2007
- Updated: 28 Sep 2012
zarah leander in the movie " die grosse liebe" the songwriter bruno balz wrote this, when he was in gestapo arrest 1941.
http://wn.com/zarah_leander_davon_geht_die_welt_nicht_unter
Zarah Leander - Vilja-Lied (1931 - "Die lustige Witwe")
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- Duration: 2:51
- Published: 15 May 2008
- Updated: 23 Sep 2012
This is another early recording of Zarah Leander. She sings the famous "Vilja Lied" from Franz Lehar's "Die lustige Witwe" (The merry widow). Her interpretation of Hanna Glawari made her into a Scandinavian superstar... The "Merry Widow" that premiered in 1931 was radically different from the classical operetta. It had been transformed into a modern musical, just keeping the original songs and changing everything else. Famed actor Gösta Ekman (star of FW Murnau's "Faust") was Danilo... One big problem was the fact that Hanna's part was written for a soprano which Zarah Leander clearly was not... Gösta Ekman and composer/musician Jules Sylvain travelled to Vienna to obtain Franz Lehar's permission to change the score to accomodate Zarah Leander's deep voice... At first Lehar couldn't believe such a voice existed but authorized the necessary changes anyway. "The merry Widow" opened in Stockholm on 1 September 1931 and caused a sensation. Following its succes it went on tour throughout Scandinavia... From this time on, Zarah Leander was not only considered a diva but also a very tough business woman... She had demanded and got 6000 Swedish Kroner per month, more than any female singer had ever been paid. Many years later, her financial shrewdness would be held against her.... Enjoy this unusual version! All pictures/Images from personal collection.
http://wn.com/Zarah_Leander_Vilja-Lied_1931_Die_lustige_Witwe
(1/2) Zarah Leander sings Pola Negri - "Mazurka" in Swedish
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- Duration: 3:10
- Published: 25 Mar 2008
- Updated: 27 May 2012
That was a misty and cold Christmas Eve morning in Berlin a year before the fall of the WALL... - I was offered a double LP album of Zarah Leander interpretations that appeared to be quite unusual and very rare. Here is one of them; recorded in Stockholm, 1942. I think that Leander was the first singer who decided to present the "canto" (here, in the middle of recording) of "Mazurka"; not having been sung even by Negri. All photos of both stars as well as the sheet music - collection jurek46pink.
http://wn.com/1_2_Zarah_Leander_sings_Pola_Negri_Mazurka_in_Swedish
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| Born | Sara Stina Hedberg (1907-03-15)15 March 1907 Karlstad, Sweden |
| Died | 23 June 1981(1981-06-23) (aged 74) Stockholm, Sweden |
| Occupation | Actress, singer |
| Years active | 1929–1979 |
| Spouse | Nils Leander (1926–1930) Vidar Forsell (1932–1943) Arne Hülphers (1956–1978) |
Zarah Leander (15 March 1907 – 23 June 1981) was a Swedish actress and singer.
Leander began her career in the late 1920s, and by the mid 1930s her success in Europe, particularly in Germany and the Scandinavian countries, led to invitations to work in the United States. Leander was reluctant to relocate her children, and opted to remain in Europe, and from 1936 was contracted to work for the German Universum Film AG (UFA) while continuing to record songs. Leander later noted that while her films were successful, her work as a recording artist was more profitable.
As a result of her controversial choice to work for the state-owned UFA in Adolf Hitler's Germany, her films and song lyrics were viewed by some as propaganda for the Nazi cause, although she took no public political position. Leander was strongly criticized as a result, particularly in Sweden where she returned after her Berlin home was bombed during an air raid. Initially she was shunned by much of the artistic community and public in Sweden, and found herself unable to resume her career after the Second World War. It was several years before she could make a comeback in Sweden, and she would remain a figure of public controversy for the rest of her life.
Eventually she returned to performing throughout Europe, but was unable to equal the level of success she had previously achieved. She spent her later years in retirement in Stockholm, and died there at the age of 74.
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Beginnings[link]
She was born as Sara Stina Hedberg in Karlstad. While Zarah Leander's career in the Third Reich has been criticized, rumors nevertheless erroneously implied that Zarah was of Jewish heritage.[citation needed] According to her son Göran, his mother's family, going back through generations, were from the Swedish provinces of Dalarna and Värmland.[citation needed]
Although Zarah Leander studied piano and violin as a small child, and sang on stage for the first time at the age of six, she initially had no intention of becoming a professional performer and led an ordinary life for several years. As a teenager she lived two years in Riga (1922–1924), where she learned German, took up work as a secretary, married Nils Leander (1926), and had two children (1927 and 1929). However, in 1929 she was engaged, as an amateur, in a touring cabaret by the entertainer and producer Ernst Rolf and for the first time sang "Vill ni se en stjärna," ('Do you want to see a star?') which soon would become her signature tune.
In 1930, she participated in four cabarets in the capital, Stockholm, made her first records, including a cover of Marlene Dietrich's "Falling in Love Again", and played a part in a film. However, it was as "Hanna Glavari" in Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow that she had her definitive break-through (1931). By then she had divorced Nils Leander. In the following years, she expanded upon her career and made a living as an artist on stage and in film in Scandinavia. Her fame brought her proposals from the European continent and from Hollywood, where a number of Swedish actors and directors were working.
In the beginning of the 1930s she performed with the Swedish revue artist, producer and songwriter Karl Gerhard who was a prominent anti-Nazi. He wrote a song for Zarah Leander, "I skuggan av en stövel" (In the shadow of a boot), in 1934 which strongly condemned the persecution of Jews in Nazi-Germany.[1]
Zarah Leander opted for an international career on the European continent. As a mother of two school-age children, she ruled out a move to America. In her view it was, most of all, too insecure. She feared the consequences, should she bring the children with her such a great distance and subsequently be unable to find employment. Despite the political situation, Austria and Germany were much closer, and Leander was already well-versed in German.
A second breakthrough, by contemporary measures her international debut, was the world premiere (1936) of Axel an der Himmelstür at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, directed by Max Hansen. It was a parody on Hollywood and not the least a parody of the German Marlene Dietrich, who had left a Europe marked by Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. It was followed by the Austrian film Premiere, in which she played the role of a successful cabaret star.
The UFA star[link]
In 1936, she landed a contract with UFA in Berlin. She became known as an extraordinarily tough negotiator, demanding influence and high salaries with half of her salary paid in Swedish kronor to a bank in Stockholm. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels dubbed her an "Enemy of Germany", but as a leading film star at UFA, she participated in ten films, most of them great successes. However, unlike other film stars at the time, such as Olga Chekhova, Leander neither socialized with leading party members nor took part in official Nazi party functions. (Both actresses are rumored to have been Communist spies.)
At a party she met the Nazi minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, who asked her ironically: "Zarah... Isn't this a Jewish name?" "Oh, maybe" the actress told "but what about Josef?" "Hmmm... yes, yes, a good answer" Goebbels replied.[2]
In her films, Zarah Leander repeatedly played the role of a femme fatale, independently minded, beautiful, passionate and self-confident. Although most of her songs had a melancholic flair, some had a frivolous undertext, or could at least be interpreted that way. In 1942, in the midst of a burning war, Leander scored the two biggest hits of her recording career - in her signature deep voice, she sang her anthems of hope and survival: "Davon geht die Welt nicht unter" ('That is not the end of the world') and "Ich weiß, es wird einmal ein Wunder gescheh'n" ('I know that someday a miracle will happen'). These two songs in particular are often included in contemporary documentaries as obvious examples of effective Nazi propaganda at work; however, it should also be noted that Leander's performance on these tracks, along with countless other hits she had all over Europe, struck a chord with the German people. Although no exact record sales numbers exist, it is likely that she was among Europe's best-selling recording artists in the years prior to 1945. Zarah herself was quick to point out in later years that what made her a fortune was indeed not her salary from Ufa, but the royalties from the records she released.[3] "Ich weiß, es wird einmal ein Wunder gescheh'n" was the song on which New Wave singer Nina Hagen (who grew up in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and as a child had idolized Leander) based her 1983 hit "Zarah".
Return to Sweden[link]
Her last film in Nazi Germany premiered on 3 March 1943. Her villa in the fashionable Berlin suburb of Grunewald was hit in an air raid, and the increasingly desperate Nazis pressured her to apply for German citizenship. At this point she decided to break her contract with Ufa, leave Germany, and retreat to Sweden, where she had bought a mansion at Lönö, not far from Stockholm.
After the Wehrmacht's defeat in the 1943 Battle of Stalingrad, public opinion in Sweden (the government of which remained officially neutral throughout the war, though ideologically aligned with the Allies, but also supplying the Nazis with strategic war materials), was more free to display outward hostility toward the Nazis, especially as news of the Holocaust became widespread[4] (public opinion was mainly anti-Nazi from the start, but was censored in the press by the government, to avoid severe repercussions from Germany). Leander had been far too extensively associated with Nazi propaganda, and as a result was shunned. Gradually she managed to land engagements on the Swedish stage. After the war she did eventually return to tour Germany and Austria, giving concerts, making new records and acting in musicals. Her comeback found an eager audience among pre-war generations who had never forgotten her. She appeared in a number of films and television shows, but she would never regain the popularity she had enjoyed before and into the first years of World War II. In 1981, after having retired from show business, she died in Stockholm of a stroke.
After the war, Zarah Leander was often questioned about her years in Nazi Germany. Though she would willingly talk about her past, she stubbornly rejected allegations of her having had sympathy for the Nazi regime. She claimed that her position as a German film actress merely had been that of an entertainer working to please an enthusiastic audience in a difficult time. She repeatedly described herself as a political idiot.
Zarah Leander continued to be very popular in Germany for many decades after WWII. She was interviewed several times in German television until she died.
In 1987 two Swedish musicals were written about Zarah Leander.
In 2003 a bronze statue was placed in Zarah Leander's home town Karlstad, by the Opera house of Värmland where she first began her career. After many years of discussions, the town government accepted this statue on behalf of the first Swedish local Zarah Leander Society. A Zarah Leander museum is open near her mansion outside Norrköping. Every year a scholarship is given to a creative artist in Zarah's tradition. The performer Mattias Enn received the prize in 2010, the female impersonator Jörgen Mulligan in 2009 and Zarah's friend and creator of the museum Brigitte Pettersson in 2008.
Filmography[link]
- 1930 – Dantes mysterier, with Eric Abrahamson, Elisabeth Frisk, Gustaf Lövås
- 1931 – Falska millionären, with Sture Lagerwall, Fridolf Rhudin
- 1935 – Äktenskapsleken, with Einar Axelsson, Karl Gerhard, Elsa Carlsson
- 1936 – Premiere (her first film in German), with Karl Martell, Attila Hörbiger, Theo Lingen
- 1937 – Zu neuen Ufern, with Willy Birgel, Viktor Staal, Carola Höhn, Erich Ziegel, Hilde von Stolz
- 1937 – La Habanera, with Ferdinand Marian, Karl Martell, Paul Bildt, Edwin Juergenssen, Werner Finck
- 1938 – Heimat, with Heinrich George, Ruth Hellberg, Lina Carstens, Paul Hörbiger, Leo Slezak
- 1938 – Der Blaufuchs, with Willy Birgel, Paul Hörbiger, Jane Tilden, Karl Schönböck, Rudolf Platte
- 1939 – Es war eine rauschende Ballnacht, with Marika Rökk, Paul Dahlke, Aribert Wäscher
- 1939 – Das Lied der Wüste, with Gustav Knuth, Friedrich Domin, Herbert Wilk, Franz Schafheitlin
- 1940 – Das Herz der Königin, with Willy Birgel, Axel von Ambesser, Will Quadflieg, Margot Hielscher
- 1941 – Der Weg ins Freie, with Hans Stüwe, Agnes Windeck, Siegfried Breuer, Hedwig Wangel
- 1942 – Die große Liebe, with Viktor Staal, Paul Hörbiger, Grethe Weiser, Wolfgang Preiss
- 1942 – Damals, with Hans Stüwe, Rossano Brazzi, Karl Martell, Hilde Körber, Otto Graf
- 1950 – Gabriela, with Siegfried Breuer, Carl Raddatz, Grethe Weiser, Gunnar Möller
- 1952 – Cuba Cabana, with O. W. Fischer, Paul Hartmann, Hans Richter, Eduard Linkers, Karl Meixner, Werner Lieven
- 1953 – Ave Maria, with Hans Stüwe, Marianne Hold, Hilde Körber, Berta Drews, Carl Wery
- 1954 – Bei Dir war es immer so schön, with Willi Forst, Heinz Drache, Sonja Ziemann, Margot Hielscher
- 1959 – Der blaue Nachtfalter, with Christian Wolff, Marina Petrowa, Paul Hartmann, Werner Hinz
- 1964 – Das Blaue vom Himmel (TV-Film), with Karin Baal, Toni Sailer, Carlos Werner
- 1966 – Das gewisse Etwas der Frauen, with Nadja Tiller, Anita Ekberg, Romina Power, Robert Hoffmann, Michèle Mercier
Operettas and musicals[link]
- 1931 Franz Lehár, Die lustige Witwe
- 1936 Ralph Benatzky, Axel an der Himmelstür (as Gloria Mills)
- 1958 Ernst Nebhut, Peter Kreuder, Madame Scandaleuse (as Helene)
- 1960 Oscar Straus, Eine Frau, die weiß, was sie will (as Manon Cavallini)
- 1964 Karl Farkas u. Peter Kreuder, Lady aus Paris (as Mrs. Erlynne)
- 1968 Peter Thomas, Ika Schafheitlin, Helmuth Gauer, Wodka für die Königin (as Königin Aureliana)
- 1975 Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler, Das Lächeln einer Sommernacht (as Madame Armfeldt)
Footnotes[link]
- ^ Zarah Leander Biography
- ^ Zarah Leander Biography
- ^ Leander, Zarah. Zarah's minnen (Zarah's memories). Bonniers publishing, Stockholm (1972)
- ^ "Sweden". Thanks To Scandinavia. http://www.thankstoscandinavia.org/sweden. Retrieved 2012-02-27.
References[link]
- Ascheid, Antje. Hitler's heroines : stardom and womanhood in Nazi cinema. Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2003
- Carter, Erica. Dietrich's ghosts : the sublime and the beautiful in Third Reich film. London : BFI Publishing, 2004
- Seiler, Paul. Ich bin eine Stimme. LinkBerlin : Ullstein, 1997
Autobiography[link]
- Es war so wunderbar. Mein Leben. Hamburg: Hoffmann u. Campe. 1973. ISBN 3-455-04090-X
External links[link]
- Zarah Leander at the Internet Movie Database
- Listen to Zarah sing
- Zarah Leander talking about her German film years (in Swedish)
- Photographs and bibliography
- Zarah Leander at Find a Grave
- Zarah Leander, German fan-site
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| Name | Leander, Zarah |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | Swedish actress and singer |
| Date of birth | 15 March 1907 |
| Place of birth | Karlstad, Sweden |
| Date of death | 23 June 1981 |
| Place of death | Stockholm, Sweden |
http://wn.com/Zarah_Leander
Related pages:
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http://nl.wn.com/Zarah Leander
http://pt.wn.com/Zarah Leander
http://de.wn.com/Zarah Leander
http://fr.wn.com/Zarah Leander
http://pl.wn.com/Zarah Leander
http://it.wn.com/Zarah Leander
http://es.wn.com/Zarah Leander
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