With her homage "So oder so ist das Leben", Nicole Metzger honors the great artist and personality Hildegard Knef and combines her magnificent German lyrics with the music of Cole Porter and George Gershwin. She will be accompanied by her top-class jazz trio: Jean-Yves Jung, piano, Jens Loh, double bass, Jean-Marc Robin, drums.

This will be followed at 20:30 by the film portrait "Ich will alles. Hildegard Knef" by Luzia Schmid: Hildegard Knef was a diva, opinionated, controversial, the mirror and antithesis of her time. As an actress, singer and author, she celebrated international successes, experienced resounding defeats and was creatively active for more than five decades. She became part of the German public at the age of 20 and was to remain so for the rest of her life. Her favorite theme, being successful, failing, reinventing herself again and again and - against all odds - getting up again and again, makes her an expert on survival.