Star Child and Great Lady: Anniversary of October 28, 2018: Cornelia Froboess

A swimsuit made her famous, but her love was always for the theater: Cornelia Froboess celebrates her 75th birthday. "It's still an adventure anyway."

Cornelia Froboess plunges for 75 years. No interviews, no public party. The actress goes on a trip and spends her day of honor on October 28 in Switzerland.

"Even I can not get rid of my flowers," her agent said, nostalgically adding, "She has so much to tell."

Because it's been more than six decades since Froboess became a star, a star. With the song "Pack the Swimsuit On", she uttered the Wannsee anthem par excellence in the early 50s. Often, the "Berliner Göre" as it was then presented in petticoat with Peter Kraus, which was then celebrated under the name of German Elvis Presley. Both were considered a couple of young dreams, his hit "When the Conny with Peter" became a hit. On the side of Peter Alexander, she played in the movie "The Model Boy" and sang "In Love, Engaged, Married".

Meanwhile, Froboess has been packing herself for a long time and her early career (including "Two Little Italians") was quickly abandoned. Cornelia became Conny and, as Cornelia, she was for a long time a great lady of German theater and television. More recently, in mid-October, she appeared in the first film "Finally Lake Garda!", In which two women, a grandmother and a granddaughter, stood aside.

"I do not think it's time to make up for lost time," she said shortly before her birthday in an interview with the German news agency. "You can go to new lifestyles, yes, but if it makes you happier, you'll learn, it's still an adventure anyway."

Already in the 1960s, she turned her back on her first career in showbiz, rather devoted to the light muse. Theater – "It was a dream for me," Froboess said. After acting lessons with Marlise Ludwig in Berlin, she had her first engagements at the Salzburg National Theater. Not only to present themselves as in the world of rhythms, but to enter other roles, this has become their professional life. Minna de Lessing, Lulu of Wedekind, the mother of Brecht Courage – Froboess played the great female roles of the theater – and again and again the broken guys.

She found her artistic home in Bavaria, where a mother of two still lives today. From 1972 to 2001, she was a permanent member of the entire Münchner Kammerspiele, then joined the Bayerische Staatsschauspiel with her director and good friend Dieter Dorn. More recently, she was there in 2014 – under the direction of Dorn's successor, Martin Kusej – in "Bunbury" on stage.

His next project: the fourth part of the film series "Ostwind", which should come out in the spring of 2019. On television, Froboess said in the DPA interview about the often expressed opinion that there are too many "TV stew" today: "The term" TV stew "is foreign to me, I would like to contribute as little as possible. I have the hope of being honest. I do not want to serve a pure cliché. "