Leander, Zarah - Centenary Edition

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The Complete Legendary German Recordings
1936-1952.



June 23, 2006 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of her death and on March 15, 2007 she would have turned one hundred. Her face, together with her unmistakable voice, probably influenced the image of the German film of the 1930s and 1940s more than that of any other performer. She was seen as Marlene Dietrich's official successor in Germany. Her name still lives on, unlike so many others from the heyday of German cinema.



As early as November and December 1938, Der Stern magazine (which has no connection with today's magazine of the same name) dedicated a four-part series of articles to Zarah Leander - representing at that time an unusually vigorous press campaign for a woman who had entered the German film business only a little more than two years previously. She did, however, already have five successful films to her credit.