Irmgard Knef, the remarkably youthful-looking older lady and cheerfully funny, quick-witted diva, recounts her long and eventful life. A life lived in the shadow of a world star, as the disowned and neglected twin sister of Hildegard Knef.
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Irmgard Knef "Heute Abend: Irmgard Knef", Best of
Irmgard Knef "Heute Abend: Irmgard Knef", Best of
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Baden-Württemberg Cabaret Award 2017 goes to Ulrich Michael Heissig "Darkly humorous, brash, and endowed with consummate wit: Sindelfingen-born director, author, and actor Ulrich Michael Heissig has created a dramatic character in "Irmgard Knef," the fictional twin sister of Hildegard Knef. She has developed into a lively, independent person. Irmgard Knef has been loved by audiences and celebrated by the arts pages for more than a decade." (Press release from the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts and LOTTO) Award ceremony on April 25, 2017 | Biberach Town Hall German Cabaret Award Special Prize 2004 for Ulrich Michael Heissig (Irmgard Knef) "The 2004 Special Prize of the Nuremberg Burgtheater, donated by the Nuremberg Burgtheater, goes to Berlin author, cabaret artist, and actor ULRICH MICHAEL HEISSIG for creating the ingenious artifice IRMGARD KNEF – the denied twin sister. Musically and lyrically independent, performed with precision, original and fiction correspond beyond the surface. Great cabaret!" Excerpt from the press release of the Nuremberg Burgtheater dated September 9, 2004
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Dates
September 2026
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