Where did Marlene Dietrich grow up and live?

📍Leberstraße 65, 10829 Berlin, Germany

1901 – 1930

“I was born Marie Magdalene Dietrich on the 27th of December 1901 in Schöneberg, a comfortable middle-class district of Berlin. My father died when I was six and my mother Josephine maintained the household's bourgeois respectability through stringent economy and force of will. Schöneberg gave me the German thoroughness and capacity for self-discipline that I applied to everything — I practised the violin for hours every day, worked obsessively at my singing and my appearance. The Berlin of my young adulthood in the 1920s was the most electrifying city in the world — the cabaret culture, the sexual freedom, the sense that all conventions were up for renegotiation. I absorbed all of it and took it to Hollywood.”

👍 LovedThe Berlin of the 1920s — the most creatively free city in the world at that moment. The German discipline and thoroughness I applied to beauty and performance. The cabaret culture that gave me my first understanding of what performance could be.

👎 DislikedMy father's early death. My mother's demanding perfectionism. The knowledge that the Berlin world I loved would be destroyed by Nazism.

Map showing where Marlene Dietrich lived — Leberstraße 65, 10829 Berlin, Germany

🗺️ Approximate location today

Street view of Marlene Dietrich's home at Leberstraße 65, 10829 Berlin, Germany

📍 Street view today

Sources: Riva, M. Marlene Dietrich (1992), Knopf; Bach, S. Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend (1992), William Morrow