Gabi Kreutzner writes: > > I hope this goes to Screen-L. Well, one more word (or two) to > Marlene's funeral and Soeren's view that what happened wasn't > "too serious" after all. Gabi, thank you for your opinion on this (honestly). The "...it wasn't too serious" refered to a quoted comment from Christan Taube. > Of course, it depends on one's concept of what's serious. > For me it is "serious" business that a public figure like > Marlene Dietrich is re-inscribed into these nationalistic > sentiments that we (? at least I) thought were something > of the past or, better, were finally closed by the 1960ies > at the latest. I take all of this as "signs of the time", > so to speak. I agree with Cal Pryluck that the similarities Agreed. It's serious. Where do you live? Unfortunately, I have not read too much about Marlene Dietrich and her life in respect to all you mention in your letter. Nazi propaganda at the funeral site in Berlin-Schoeneberg in 1992 makes me very sad. Soeren Detering [log in to unmask] Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany