Lulu Ziegler

Biography

Lulu Ziegler, born Karen Margrete Maria Ziegler-Andersen in Sorø, was a Danish cabaret singer, stage director and actress. She studied singing, acting and English at the Københavns Universitet and made her stage debut in 1926. Lulu Ziegler was an ambitious artist who had ideas about expanding the literary qualities of the cabaret. She moved to Berlin and studied the style of Bertolt Brecht at the Berliner ensemble. In 1933 she made her film debut in "Inled mig i frestelse", the Swedish version of Josef von Sternberg's "The Blue Angel" (1930). Lulu Ziegler started her own cabaret theater at the Grand Café, Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen in 1940. Because of the Nazi invasion of Denmark the times became uncertain for a Jewish artist, and consequently, after being arrested by the Nazi's she closed down the Lulu Ziegler Cabaret in 1942 and fled to Sweden. It was re-opened in 1948. At Hamburger Börs in Stockholm she established a restaurant cabaret in 1955. At Odense Teater, Denmark, she staged the new Ebb-Kander-Masteroff musical "Cabaret" in 1968. During Lulu Ziegler's long career she recorded a great number of records, starred in plays and cabarets, staged several plays, cabarets and musicals and appeared in a feature films and television shows.