Exhibition
"Guitars sounding silently through the night"

With an exhibition about German pop songs in movies of the of the fifties, sixties and seventies we come back to Freudenberg: In it′s Stadtmuseum on Friday, 23rd January, our exhibition ”Gitarren klingen leise durch die Nacht“ (Guitars sounding silently through the night) has been opened. Here we present a series of pictures.

This photo has been taken at the opening ceremony: Ilona Krämer from the smallest Beatles′ museum worldwide and Eckhard Günther, mayor of Freudenberg.

Buildup on Monday, 19th January ′09

”Auf Wiedersehen“ is a movie with Elke Sommer, German star of Hollywood fame, and jazz legend Louis Armstrong playing major role. The pictures shows Mary Thomas and Bärbel Bäumer (Freudenberg town museum).

Of course there is a poster of ”Heißer Sommer“, a movie from the former GDR, and of course Dutch child star Heintje and Peter Alexander are among the singers on rare film posters.

Conny (Froboess) was one of German teenage idols in the fifties and early sixties. She played in films alongside – for example – Peter Kraus, Peter Alexander and Fred Bertelmann. – The movie ”Schlager-Raketen“ (1960) presented a large number of stars: Heidi Brühl, Conny, Peter Kraus, Lolita and Trude Herr were among them.