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Cornelia Froboess
Froboess in 1966
Born (1943-10-28) 28 October 1943 (age 81)
Wriezen, Germany
OccupationActress
Spouse Hellmuth Matiasek ​ ​(m. 1967; died 2022)​
Children2

Cornelia Froboess (German: [kɔʁˈneːli̯a ˈfʁoːbøːs] ; born 28 October 1943) is a German actress and a teen idol of the 1950s and early 1960s. During that time, Froboess appeared in many West German and Austrian musical films, especially after the rock and roll wave had hit Germany. In those comedy films, she would often portray the typical Berliner Göre (brat from Berlin) who craves independence from her strict parents.

Career

As Die Kleine Cornelia she had her first hit record in 1951, aged eight, with a song written by her father. "Pack die Badehose ein" ("Pack your bathing trunks") is a cheery tune about a group of children going swimming on a hot summer's day at Wannsee. The title of the song has become a set phrase and synonym for going swimming easily recognized even by speakers of German who have never heard of the song. As she grew up, she continued recording as Conny, then Conny Froboess.

In 1962, Froboess finished in sixth place at the Eurovision Song Contest, where she sang "Zwei kleine Italiener" (Two little Italians) for Germany. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc. Froboess also recorded a Dutch (Twee Kleine Italianen) and Italian (Un Bacio Al'Italiana) version of the song. The same year she appeared as herself in Jean Renoir's comedy film The Elusive Corporal.

Later, Froboess became a theatre and movie actress. In 1982, she appeared in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film Veronika Voss. In 1988 she played Marthe Schwerdtlein in Goethe's Faust I, a performance that was also released as a film: Faust – Vom Himmel durch die Welt zur Hölle. In 1997 Froboess played the mother of the protagonist Martin Brest (Til Schweiger) in the film Knockin' on Heaven's Door. On stage, she appeared in Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm in 1976, staged by Dieter Dorn, and played Ellida in Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea in 1990. At the Salzburg Festival 2004, she played Mary Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night. The same year she played the title role in Bertolt Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children.

Selected filmography

Froboess at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival

Awards

References

  1. Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 146. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.
  2. https://www.discogs.com/release/5711420-Conny-Twee-Kleine-Italianen
  3. https://www.discogs.com/release/1701469-Conny-Froboess-Un-Bacio-Al-Italiana-Hallo-Hallo-Hallo
  4. Portrait: Dieter Dorn at the Goethe-Institut
  5. The Lady from the Sea review
  6. The 2004 Salzburg Festival at The New York Theatre Wire

External links

Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest
Participation
Artists
Songs
  • Note: Entries scored out signify where Germany did not compete
Eurovision Song Contest 1962
Countries
Artists
Songs
  • "Addio, addio"
  • "Dis rien"
  • "Katinka"
  • "Kom sol, kom regn"
  • "Llámame"
  • "Ne pali svetla u sumrak"
  • "Nur in der Wiener Luft"
  • "Petit bonhomme"
  • "Le Retour"
  • "Ring-A-Ding Girl"
  • "Sol och vår"
  • "Tipi-tii"
  • "Ton nom"
  • "Un premier amour"
  • "Vuggevise"
  • "Zwei kleine Italiener"
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