Unwavering, direct, armed with wit and a Berlin snout: the actress Cornelia Froboess turns 80.
“It began like a fairy tale / that the magic fairy thought up…” What the young Cornelia Froboess sang in the hit “Diana” in the 1950s sounds as if it was aimed at her own life. In any case, the fairy godmother gave the actress, who was born on October 28th in Wriezen an der Oder, a fairytale portion of luck. With the song “Pack up the swimming trunks”, composed by her father, “little Cornelia” delivered the Wannsee anthem par excellence in 1951 and sang her way impressively into the hearts of post-war Germans, the epitome of the sassy “Berlin brat” – she is in Berlin’s Wedding grew up – cheeky, spontaneous and happy.