Veronica Ferres (here in February 2019): "The press acted as if I had just come out of the furrow"
Photo:Uwe Koch / imago images / Eibner
SPIEGEL: Ms. Ferres, you are called the most German of all German actresses. Is that a compliment or an insult?
Veronica Ferres: I've heard that a lot abroad. That has to do with the more than 30 English-language films I've made and with the image of us Germans. Tall, blond, blue-eyed. At almost five feet eight I am of course an apparition, and you can't ask for anything smaller. But the rest doesn't fit: I have green eyes. And I helped out with the hair color.
SPIEGEL: But it was more the German media that gave you this title. That being said, you avoided my question.
Ferres: I can't answer it because I don't see myself that way. That's how I was cast at the beginning of my career, that's right. In “Schtonk!” I played the muse of the Hitler diary forger Konrad Kujau, an Eva Braun-like role. That was of course very, very German. The film was my breakthrough, the side effect was: All the theater roles I had played before no longer counted. I was reduced to my origins very much. I'm from Solingen, my parents were coal and potato traders. The press acted like I was fresh out of the furrow. And of course I used this cliché in the beginning.
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