From child to famous actress

Munich (dpa)
Cornelia Froboess plunges for 75 years. No interviews, no public party. The multi-talented actress goes on a trip and spends her day of honor this Sunday in Switzerland. "Even I can not get rid of my flowers," said her agent, adding sadly, "She still has so much to tell."

For more than six decades, Cornelia Froboess, born in Wriezen, Brandenburg, where her mother Margaretha settled in Berlin in 1943 following the bombing, has become a star. For a star child. In 1951, she pronounced the anthem Wannsee par excellence with the song "Unpack the Swimsuit". Often, the "Berliner Göre", as it was then, performed in petticoat with Peter Kraus, who was then celebrated under the name of German Elvis Presley. The two films considered as an adolescent dream couple, "When Conny with Peter" (1958) and "Conny and Peter Make Music" (1960), have become movie hits. On the side of Peter Alexander, she played in the movie "The Pattern Boy" (1963) and sang "In love, fiance, married".

Meanwhile, Cornelia Froboess herself wrapped her swimsuit and her swing career (she also sang "Two Little Italians" (1962)) suspended her early. 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 was seen in the first film "Finally Lake Garda!", In which two women, a grandmother and a granddaughter, went on new shores.

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

Already in the 60s, she turned her back on her first career in the entertainment world, which was more focused on the light muse. Theater – "It was a dream for me," said Cornelia Froboess once. 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. Lessna's Minna, Wedekind's Lulu, Brecht's Mother Courage – Cornelia Froboess has played the big 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 Oscar Wilde's comedy "Bunbury" on the stage.

Her next project: the fourth part of "Ostwind", which should be published in the spring of 2019. In the series of films about horses, she plays the owner of stud farm Maria Kaltenbach. Regarding television, Cornelia Froboess said that, given the often expressed opinion that there is too much "television stew" today: "The term" television 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. "