That twins Alice and Ellen Kessler died together at their home in Germany: they were going to commit assisted suicide, according to the Bild newspaper. The Kessler sisters are 89 years old. They were found in the house where they lived, in Gruenwald, near Munich, next to each other, in two neighboring apartments, separated only by a sliding wall. Police will be notified later today, after both women died. Upon arrival, officers can only confirm death and exclude third party liability. Assisted suicide, Bild reminds us, is a permitted practice under German law under certain conditions.
Twins Ellen and Alice Kessler are called the “legs of the nation” in Germany. They were born in 1936 in Nerchau, Saxony, near Leipzig. Here they begin to take part in Opera ballet from childhood. In 1952, at the age of sixteen, they left the German Democratic Republic and settled in West Germany, in Duesseldorf, where their career began that took them to perform all over the world with artists such as Frank Sinatra and Fred Astaire. According to the Bild newspaper, they had written in the will that, after cremation, the ashes would be placed in the same urn.
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Italians discovered them because of their amazing, long, very long legs, almost identical to the journey that took them from the lights of the Paris Lido to the television studios of the Winter Gardenbetween Don Lurio and Cetra Quartet, then Studio Uno with Mina. The year was 1961 and since then almost all of us have, at least once, hummed Da-da-un-pa, perhaps imitating a Teutonic accent and some hip-shoulder movements.
ANSA Agency Alice and Ellen Kessler make Italy dream – PORTRAITS From escapees from the GDR, to celebrities. Two, together, independent Born in Nerchau, Saxony, on 20 August 1936, he fled with his family to West Germany, arriving at the age of 19 among the ranks of legends. Blubell Girl and at 40 on the cover of Playboy, they have made men fall in love from one ocean to another. Ballerina, singer, actress in the cinema for Dino Risi on Thursdays and, with Alberto Sordi, in The Complexes and in the theater for Garinei and Giovannini, for us, however, the Kessler twins remain Pantyhose Carousel, the chorus of La notte è piccolo and the sketch of Milleluci and Canzonissima, all of which still get lots of clicks on YouTube. And what will they remember most from their years on Italian TV? ”We are happy to work together Mina, Raimondo Vianello and Johnny Dorelli, perhaps the closest to us because of its American style – they said in an interview with ANSA -. Don Lurio She had good ideas, but they were too ‘small’ for two tall girls like us.” Alice and Ellen Kessler would have remained together, as in the Italian imagination, and simultaneously, as in the past, they died today.
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