My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.
“The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.”
“Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old.”