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Marlene Dietrich Collection Berlin
Marlene in Berlin
Birthplace
Sedanstraße 53 (today: Leberstraße 65 in Berlin-Schöneberg)
On the ground floor was Police Station 4 where Marlene’s father, police lieutenant Louis Erich Otto Dietrich, worked. The house was damaged in the war and partially rebuilt later. A plaque to the right of the entrance commemorates the building as Marlene Dietrich’s birthplace.
Later places of residence
1904: Kolonnenstraße 48
1906: Potsdamer Straße 48 (today: No. 116)
1907: Akazienallee 48 (later destroyed in the war)
1908: Tauentzienstraße 13 (later destroyed in the war)
c. 1914: Kaiserallee 219/220 (today: Bundesallee 220)
After Dessau:
1917: Kaiserallee 135
After marrying Rudolf Sieber:
1923: Nassauische Straße, Kaiserallee 17
1924: Kaiserallee 54 (today: Bundesallee 54)
Education
Begins primary school in spring 1907
Auguste-Victoria-Schule (girls’ school founded in 1901, closed in 1937), Nürnberger Straße 63
After Dessau:
April 1917 to spring 1918: Viktoria-Luisen-Schule (today: Goethe-Gymnasium)
Gasteiner Straße 21–25 / at the corner of Uhlandstraße 91–93 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf
Marriage
May 17, 1923: Marie Magdalene Dietrich marries assistant director Rudolf Emilian Sieber in the Kaiser-Wilhelm Memorial Church.
Theater
Deutsches Theater and studio theater, Schumannstraße 13 a: Marlene Dietrich plays her first role at this theater on December 7, 1922 in "Die Büchse der Pandora" (“Pandora’s Box” by Frank Wedekind, directed by Carle Heine); she also performs in "Thimoteus in flagranti" by Hannequin and Veber (beginning January 11, 1923), "The Circle" by William Somerset Maugham (premiere: January 24, 1923) and "Penthesilea" by Heinrich Kleist (premiere: February 6, 1923).
Further theaters: Schlossparktheater, Großes Schauspielhaus, Theater in der Königgrätzer Straße, Tribüne, Komödie, Lustspielhaus
Grave
Berlin, Friedenau Cemetery, Stubenrauchstraße 43–45, grave No. 34/16
The inscription on her gravestone reads: "Hier steh' ich an den Marken meiner Tage" (Here I stand at the marks of my days) – a line from the poem “Abschied vom Leben” (Farewell from Life) by Theodor Körner.
