When
I was a child in Eastern Germany, there was a TV show called "Willi
Schwabes Rumpelkammer". The series was shown once a month and featured a
guy with a lantern in his hand who went up into the attic of his house where he collected
movie-memorabilities from the past. Up in the attic he also showed some
sequences of old UFA and Hollywood Movies and told stories about the stars of
bygone days.
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I loved it! I was addicted to everything what came with this show, even the jingle: it was "The Dance of the Sugarfary“ from Tschaikowskis "The Nutcracker". My parents knew about this and whenever I was behaving badly they said: "No Willi for you, dear..." But most of the time I was a good girl, so I have seen a lot of episodes.
The
other day I found a book in an antique book store with juicy stories and nice
portrait pics showing german silent film movie stars. F.H. Habel - the author
of the book "Verrückt vor Begehren" is the same man who wrote the
lines for "Willi". This brought back some sweet memories.
I wanna show you some scans from the great coffee-table book. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
