Overview
- Public broadcasters mark the centenary with fresh programming, including the ARD documentary Ich will alles and retrospectives such as So oder so ist das Leben now available in the ARD Mediathek.
- Widower Paul von Schell recalls their life together and plans a quiet graveside remembrance, while longtime visagist René Koch shares personal memories and keepsakes from their decades of work.
- Knef’s breakthrough as the lead in the first German postwar feature Die Mörder sind unter uns (1946) and the scandal around Die Sünderin (1951) anchor new appraisals of her early screen career.
- Coverage revisits her international reach from Hollywood’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro and a Broadway offer for Cole Porter’s Silk Stockings to her later reinvention as a chanson singer and bestselling author of Der geschenkte Gaul and Das Urteil.
- Profiles balance admiration for her artistry with the realities she spoke about openly, including serious illness, numerous operations, financial troubles, and her death in 2002 at 76.