00:01Soon after the end of the Second World War, an American film was shot in Berlin called
00:06A Foreign Affair. It starred Malena Dietrich, its music was by Friedrich Hollander and
00:14it was directed by Billy Wilder, three Berliners who had been forced into exile and new careers
00:22in California by the accession of Hitler. I knew Billy Wilder in his later years and he
00:30had a vivid reminiscence of his student days in Berlin when he lived in some poverty in
00:38a tenement building with only one lavatory on each floor. Constant flushing of this facility
00:48kept him awake all night. He could only get to sleep by imagining that he was in a tropical
00:56forest listening to the melodious splashing of a waterfall. Years later as a big time Hollywood
01:09director after the immense success of Some Like It Hot, the greatest of all screen comedies,
01:17he was living at the Bel Air Hotel in Los Angeles in a luxurious garden suite. Alas, his sleep
01:26every night was disturbed by the sound of a fountain in the garden beyond his terrace. He could only
01:42drop off by imagining that he was in a run-down Berlin apartment block overhearing the sound of a constantly
01:49flushing toilet. Hollander wrote several great songs for Malena in this movie as he had done for her
02:05first film, The Blue Angel. The most memorable was what will now be our final offerings afternoon, the ruins of Berlin. I'm joined by
02:12Meow Meow Meow. And we're going to perform it in German and the three languages of the occupying forces.
02:19In the three languages of the occupying forces.
02:26And the three languages of the occupying forces.
02:33And the three languages of the occupying forces.
02:41.
02:50.
02:52.
02:53.
02:58Les ruines de Valens
03:00Les amonts frères
03:02qui ont été consensés
03:04L'article de la Ferdinand
03:06La Chanson de l'Ovoa
03:08La Vesta
03:12Avis the ruins
03:14of the rain
03:16Trees are in bloom
03:18They have never been
03:20Sometimes at night
03:22You'll hear an audio sorrow
03:24Of the future and of the tomorrow
03:26You read of lies at last
03:28There weren't a time
03:30The struggles of the past
03:32A plenty spring is to begin
03:34One of the ruins
03:36of Berlin
03:40In den Ruinen
03:42von Berlin
03:44Feiern die Blumen
03:46wieder an zu blöd
03:48Und in der Nacht
03:50spürst du von allen Seiten
03:52von allen Seiten
03:54In den Duft
03:56as we have signed
04:00Dans de Ere
04:02vieren
04:04de Berlin
04:06Les amonts frères
04:08aprières et tauschen nacht
04:10Aprières springens
04:12to begin
04:14One of the ruins
04:16of Berlin
04:18Auction
04:46I
04:50youtube
04:52des
04:54des
04:56remonts de
04:58des
04:59des
05:00des
05:01des
05:02des
05:04des
05:06des
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