Evelyn Künneke

Evelyn K++nneke was a singer, dancer, and actress who saw some considerable success in Germany from the early '40s through the end of the 1950s. Born Eve-Susanne Kunneke, she was the daughter of opera and operetta composer Eduard K++nneke. She spent her youth very much in the shadow of her father's renown, and achieved her first success under the stage name Evelyn King, as a dancer. Her most prominent fan during the mid- to late '30s was Adolf Hitler. She took back her family name as a performer at the end of the decade and scored her first success as a singer in the 1942 with...