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Nazi-era entertainer to make new stage premiere - at 106
Jul 28, 2010, 14:12 GMT
Berlin - Entertainer Johannes 'Jopie' Heesters, a one-time favourite in Nazi-Germany, is to make another premiere on Friday in his nine-decade-long career, at the age of 106, local media reported.
Heesters, who started his acting career performing in Viennese operettas in the 1930s, is to play a supporting role in dramatist Rolf Hochhuth's musical Inselkomoedie ('Island Comedy') at the Berliner Ensemble starting on Friday.
'His body is fragile, but his voice is still strong and powerful,' the Bild newspaper said.
Dutch-born Heesters' career was blighted by acting in frothy Nazi-era movies.
His latest project involves playing the role of a kingly narrator in Hochhuth's 1974 drama, which tells the tale of the women of a Greek island vowing not to have sex with their husbands until a plan to build a NATO base on their idyll is defeated.
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