Rendezvous with Marlene
1988 in Paris. The phone rings and Ute Lemper can't believe that Marlene Dietrich is on the phone. The two of them have a three-hour phone conversation - what a precious gift for the then 23-year-old Ute Lemper. The grand dame had tracked down her aspiring young colleague and called her to thank her for her post. After Ute had 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 been living since 1979. Ute essentially wanted to apologize to her for the media attention. And then the phone rings and they talk about her life, her work and her style, her love of Rilke, her complicated relationship with Germany, her grief and her fascinations. How you would love to be a fly on the wall and listen to these two showgirls. Ute was at the beginning of her theater and music career. Marlene Dietrich, on the other hand, could already look back on a long, fulfilling life full of films, music, incredible collaborations, love stories and fame. 1992 in Berlin. Six days before Ute's premiere in the role of Lola in "DER BLAUE ENGEL" at the Theater des Westens - the very role that had made Marlene a star in 1928 - Marlene Dietrich died in Paris. After the glamorous funeral in La Madeleine, Marlene finally returned to Berlin to find her final resting place.Ute Lemper, now a world star herself and long regarded as the "new Marlene", tells us about this in her new program, taking us back 30 years into the past and allowing us to take part 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.
