Abstract
The death of Marlene Dietrich in May 1992 did not pass unnoticed by my high school German students. Admittedly, teen-aged students are not noted for any particular awareness or appreciation of German film stars from a long-ago generation. But my classes had already been aware of Dietrich's 90th birthday just a few months earlier, and had read then in Der Spiegel that German television aus diesem AnlaI3 einige ihrer sch6nsten Filme zeigt. Indeed, my students had previously viewed one of the Kraut's (Ernest Hemingway) better known films, Der blaue Engel (1930). Several students had earlier written reports on Marlene Dietrich herself or some of her films. Ask the average high school or college student who Peter Lorre or Billy Wilder is, and you will generally get an apathetic look and a shrug. Sometimes a student or two will at least have heard of
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