Nachlass Marlene Dietrich (1993)

Depicts the opening of the "Marlene Dietrich Collection Berlin" exhibition. Some 300,000 items that the city of Berlin acquired on September 14, 1993 at Sotheby's in New York. The part of the estate on sale consists of clothes, screenplays, letters, graphics, costume designs, pieces of jewellery, furniture, and luggage. The Berliners paid five million dollars for the memorabilia of the diva. A sheik is said to have offered more, but the daughter Maria Riva does not like the thought that the memories of her mother could disappear in the desert. Today, a large part of the collection is housed in the Berlin Film Museum. The exhibition dedicates three rooms to the Prussian prima donna.