Alice Kessler obit

Kessler twins dead: 'Assisted suicide Two women free until the end

Alice and Ellen left together at the age of 89, in their home in Bavaria. From escaping the GDR to the Lido in Paris to TV success in Italy

 

She was not on the list.

Someone is born to break down walls. The story of the female twins Alice and Ellen Kessler - found dead at 89 in their home in Gruenwald, near Munich, where they lived next door to each other, in two adjoining flats, separated only by a sliding wall - is above all a story of walls being torn down.

Until the end: according to the German newspaper Bild, the two artists resorted to assisted suicide, a practice that is allowed in Germany under certain conditions. The police were informed on Tuesday, after the Kesslers had already passed away. When they arrived, the officers could only note the death and exclude the responsibility of third parties. They had also agreed on a date of 17 November, according to the testimony of Dghs, Germany's largest civil rights and patient protection organisation, as well as decided to leave their legacy to Médecins Sans Frontières.

An end perfectly consistent with the story of two women who had left the DDR for West Germany to follow their passion: that of dancing. Theirs had been the first uncovered legs on Italian television, with all the queue of controversy and censorial interventions that the great Antonello Falqui's astute move brought with it. On the verge of turning 40, they had then allowed themselves to pose for Playboy: it was the 1970s, and here in Italy it was much discussed, so much so that the Italian edition of Hugh Hefner's magazine reached a record number of copies sold. Alice and Ellen, for the press of the economic boom years, were the 'legs of the nation', but above all rounded artists. Because the Kessler twins happened to be singers, showgirls and actresses as well as dancers. Iconic, when here at home we didn't even know the meaning of the word.

They were born on 20 August 1936 in Nerchau, Saxony, not far from Leipzig. It was here that they had started attending the Opera Ballet as children. In 1952, at the age of sixteen, they left the German Democratic Republic and settled in West Germany, in Düsseldorf, where their career began, which led them to perform all over the world with artists such as Frank Sinatra and Fred Astaire.

Having joined the ranks of the legendary Blubell Girls from the Paris Lido at the age of 19, they represented their country at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1959, finishing eighth with Heute Abend wollen wir tanzen geh'n'. Two years later they landed at the RAI television studios of Winter Garden, between Don Lurio and the Quartetto Cetra, and then of Studio Uno with Mina. It was 1961 and a great television director, Antonello Falqui, laid down the rules of the basic grammar of Saturday night variety. There were born nonsense catchphrases such as Da-da-un-pa and Testa spalla, songs that were pretexts for perfectly reproducible dances at home and therefore hits by definition. A cause for scandal to be covered with heavy nylons for an Italy that, at the beginning of the 1960s, was still well-thinking.

A few film roles with a master like Dino Risi (Il giovedì) and a sacred monster of the calibre of Alberto Sordi (memorable scene of the meeting in the lift with Guglielmo il dentone in I complessi). Theatre escapes us with Garinei and Giovannini and of course the Carosello. About what? Of tights, ça va sans dire. And they, of so many years in Italian TV, what did they remember most? "We liked working with Mina, Raimondo Vianello and Johnny Dorelli, perhaps the closest to us for his American style," they recounted. "Don Lurio had wonderful ideas, but they were too 'small' for two girls as tall as us".

In the 1980s, the Kessler twins returned to Germany and settled in Grünwald, although they did not neglect frequent returns to Italy, especially to participate in television programmes. And it was at this time that the governments of Germany and Italy recognised the two sisters for their work in promoting cooperation between both countries through their artistic activities. Their last appearance as presenters, here in Italy, dates back to 2004 for the Italia 1 comedy variety show Superciro. Internationally famous, the Kesslers had even performed on the legendary Ed Sullivan Show in the 1960s, among other things performing their cover of I say a little prayer for you by Burt Bacharach with that unmistakable Teutonic accent.

And then, of course, there was the gossip. Alice was the long-time companion of the singer Marcel Amont and later of the actor Enrico Maria Salerno, while Ellen was for many years the companion of the actor Umberto Orsini and told of an affair with Burt Lancaster in her Parisian period of 1956.

Indivisible in life and, as they expressed it, also in death. The two sisters wished to be buried together, in one urn, next to the ashes of their mother Elsa and their dog Yello. 'That's what we stipulated in our will,' Ellen had told Bild in an interview in April 2024. A decision that, according to Pro Vita & Famiglia, was induced by 'assisted suicide laws produced by a sick society, incapable of fully including and valuing every person even in the most precarious phases of existence'. But theirs is above all the story of two free women. Free to the end.

 

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1971

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1970

1 episode

 

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1969

 

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7.8

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1968

 

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1968

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1967

1 episode

 

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1967

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1967

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1 episode

 

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1966

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1966

1 episode

 

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1966

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8.9

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1965

1 episode

 

Vergißmeinnicht (1964)

Vergißmeinnicht

8.2

TV Series

Self - Dancer

1965

1 episode

 

I complessi (1965)

I complessi

7.2

Self (segment "Guglielmo il Dentone")

1965

 

Mostra internazionale di musica leggera (1965)

Mostra internazionale di musica leggera

TV Special

Self

1965

 

Noche de estrellas

TV Series

Self

1965

1 episode

 

Sourires de l'Occident

8.9

TV Movie

Self

1965

 

Show - Charme - Chansons

TV Special

Self - Dancer (as Alice und Ellen Kessler)

1965

 

Canzoni, bulli e pupe (1964)

Canzoni, bulli e pupe

3.4

Self (as Gemelle Kessler)

1964

 

Il giovedì (1964)

Il giovedì

7.2

Self

1964

 

Red Skelton in The Red Skelton Hour (1951)

The Red Skelton Hour

8.1

TV Series

Self

1963

1 episode

 

Wie gewünscht...

TV Mini Series

Self

1963

1 episode

 

Maskenball bei Scotland Yard - Die Geschichte einer unglaublichen Erfindung (1963)

Maskenball bei Scotland Yard - Die Geschichte einer unglaublichen Erfindung

3.3

Self

1963

 

Hast du heute gute Laune?

TV Special

Self

1963

 

Lieben Sie Show...?

TV Mini Series

Self - Singer (as Alice & Ellen Kessler)

1962–1963

4 episodes

 

Raise Your Glasses

TV Series

Self - Performer (as Alice & Ellen Kessler)

1962

1 episode

 

Rhythmus, Twist und gute Laune

TV Special

Self - Dancer

1962

 

Wieder zurück: Siegfried Arno - Eine Musik-Show aus Studio 3

TV Series

Self

1962

2 episodes

 

Herzlichst Ihr Peter Kraus

TV Series

Self (as Alice & Ellen Kessler)

1961

1 episode

 

Großstadtmelodie

TV Special

Self - Singer - Dancer (as Alice & Ellen Kessler)

1961

 

Quartetto Cetra in Giardino d'inverno (1961)

Giardino d'inverno

TV Series

Self - Dancer (as Gemelle Kessler)

1961

 

Discorama (1957)

Discorama

6.5

TV Series

Self (as Les soeurs Kessler)

1960

2 episodes

 

Toute la chanson (1960)

Toute la chanson

TV Series

Self (as Les soeurs Kessler)

1960

1 episode

 

Schlagerbummel

TV Movie

Self - Dancer

1959

 

Eurovision Song Contest Cannes 1959 (1959)

Eurovision Song Contest Cannes 1959

7.2

TV Special

Self - German Entry

1959

 

Canzonissima (1958)

Canzonissima

6.2

TV Series

Self - Dancer (1969)

1958–1975

 

Tabarin (1958)

Tabarin

5.3

Self (as Les Soeurs Kessler)

1958

 

Die Zwillinge vom Zillertal (1957)

Die Zwillinge vom Zillertal

5.1

Self - Dancer (as Die Kessler Zwillinge)

1957

 

Und abends in die Waldbühne...

TV Movie

Self - DancerSelf - Musician (as Die Kessler Zwillinge)

1957

 

Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1948)

Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall

7.5

TV Series

Self

1963

1 episode

 

Archive Footage

Florian Lukas in Rosenthal (2025)

Rosenthal

7.0

TV Movie

Self (archive footage, uncredited)

2025

 

Mythos Amalfiküste - Liebe, Laster, Dolce Vita (2023)

Mythos Amalfiküste - Liebe, Laster, Dolce Vita

6.3

TV Movie

Self (archive footage)

2023

 

Chelcee Grimes and Jason Manford in Eurovision Calling: Jason and Chelcee's Ultimate Guide (2023)

Eurovision Calling: Jason and Chelcee's Ultimate Guide

5.3

TV Movie

Self (archive footage)

2023

 

Souvenir d'Italie (2022)

Souvenir d'Italie

Self (archive footage, uncredited)

2022

 

Eurofestival (2010)

Eurofestival

Self (archive footage)

2010

 

Lelio Luttazzi - Il giovanotto matto

Video

Self (archive footage)

2008

 

Tour d'Eurovision

4.2

TV Movie

Self - German Entry (archive footage)

2005

 

Hans Rosenthal - Das war Spitze!

TV Movie

Self (archive footage, as Die Kessler Zwillinge)

2003

 

Eddie Constantine: Cet homme est un sentimental...

4.7

TV Movie

Self (archive footage, uncredited)

1999

 

L'Oeil du cyclone (1991)

L'Oeil du cyclone

6.9

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

1993

1 episode

 

Ed Sullivan in The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show (1992)

The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show

8.1

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

1992

2 episodes

 

Seinerzeit

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

1979

1 episode