If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.

The song Hildegard Knef is mostly remembered for is "Für mich soll's rote Rosen regnen" ("Red roses are to rain for me"). Death
Knef died from emphysema aged 76 on February 1 2002. She changed her name from Knef to Neff and achieved a measure of stardom on Broadway as "Ninotchka" in the musical Silk Stockings (1955) by Cole Porter.

Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef (December 28 1925 – February 1 2002) was a German actress singer and writer. She was billed in some English language films as Hildegard Neff or Hildegarde Neff.