Kessler Twins
Alice and Ellen Kessler ( born August 20, 1936 in Nerchau, Saxony, civil Kässler ) are a famous pair of twins of the German show business. They were known as the Kessler Twins and acted as singers, dancers, actors and entertainers. For a long time they were counted among the most beautiful women in the world.
Life
The parents of identical twins, the mechanical engineer Paul Kässler and his wife Elsa - both musically interesting - the girls promoted early and sent them as a six year old to ballet lessons. In 1947, the children's ballet of the Leipzig Opera on the sisters and in 1950 she passed the entrance examination of the local opera dance school. 1952 took the family a visitor visa to escape from East Germany to West Germany, where the twins began their career in Dusseldorf in Revue palladium.
There she saw in 1955 the director of the Paris Lido, Pierre Louis Guerin, and committed them to his world-famous variety show on the Champs -Élysées. There, they enjoyed great success, as they were later achieved only by another German, Marlène Charell. 1960, the sisters went to Italy, where they " showed leg " as the first women on television (even when the same infected at that time still in thick, opaque tights ). In France, they also changed their surnames from Kässler in Kessler.
In 1959 she participated for Germany in the Euro Vision Song Contest, turned several feature films in Italy, France and Germany and had their own television shows. Among other things, she worked in the films Four girls from the Wachau ( 1957 - together with Isa Günther and Jutta Günther ), The Count of Luxembourg (1957) and The Dead of Beverly Hills (1964 ) with. With age, they shifted their activities to more challenging pieces. In 1976 she appeared at the Munich Gärtnerplatztheater as " Anna I" and " Anna II" in the ballet The Seven Deadly Sins of the petty bourgeoisie by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill on. Thus, the long-planned idea could be realized to be represented a split personality girl twins.
At the age of forty years, the twins for the Italian edition of Playboy were photographed. The edition was sold out in no time. In Italy, where they had from 1962 to 1986 permanent residence, are Alice and Ellen Kessler (Le gemelle Kessler ) even today as icons of television. In the U.S., the Kessler Twins were in demand. Many famous Hollywood personalities could be like to see with the " German girls ", so among other things, Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster or Elvis Presley.
The artists were honored, among others, the Golden Rose of Montreux and the Federal Cross of Merit (1987). For her contributions to the German - Italian understanding they received the Premio Capo Circe.
Since 1986, the twins live in a shared house in the celebrity neighborhood Geiselgasteig in green forest in the district of Munich.
2009 were the Kessler Twins on with Bill Ramsey, Max Greger and Hugo Strasser, which together with the SWR Big Band Swing legends.