Der graue Engel

The text is the résumé of the life of an aging diva – not Marlene, but someone who could be. Instead of writing about an actual screen star, Rinke writes about the phenomenon of the diva as such, the star as a public figure, the desire to self-stylize, the escape from the banality of the everyday, the loneliness behind the mask of the artist, and about love, age and death.