They were icons of their age, sought-after women of style and stunning charisma: the diseuses of Berlin's golden 1920s. Then they fell into oblivion. Now, almost a hundred years later, Désirée Nick is breathing new life into this glamorous "profession", as she calls it. "I am a dazzling woman who has something of each of these great diseuses in her. There is a touch of Grete Weiser in me, a touch of Edith Hancke, a touch of Blandine Ebinger and a touch of Marlene Dietrich. I am multifaceted and unite them all at once." Being a diseuse is a great and special gift, says Désirée Nick, one that cannot be lived without being an original oneself. A genuinely Berlin genre that has been forgotten. Désirée Nick has now devoted herself entirely to it, returning thereby to the beginnings of her career. "That is how I started out. I came to acting through singing. The way the public perceives me today corresponds to only five per cent of my personality. As a diseuse I can show everything that is inside me, everything I can do and who I am." Before Désirée Nick celebrates her premiere as "The Living Diseuse" on 11 April 2017 at Berlin's Bar jeder Vernunft, she will entertain the illustrious audience of a special "aspekte" Berlinale broadcast as a diseuse on 15 February 2017. Before the great names of German cinema, such as Volker Schlöndorff, she will sing several songs from her programme and join the talk-show panel. "I would like to surprise the ladies and gentlemen at aspekte with it. I wonder whether they know the diseuses? I think I have the right circle to discuss the genre. I am very much looking forward to it!" With great glamour, stunning music, erotic performance and double-edged songs, Désirée Nick will enchant her audience. How would it be if the art of the diseuse were once again associated with her? "That would make me very happy," she laughs. "aspekte-extra. Die lange Nacht der Berlinale", 15 February 2017, 00:50–02:50 on ZDF. "Die letzte lebende Diseuse" from 11 April 2017 at Bar jeder Vernunft in Berlin.
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