"I have known Petra Dorén from the stage for about fifteen years and began to work as a journalist about her in 1992. During our interviews for various journal publications, we discovered similarities. The idea for this book was born in 1993 during a visit to the theatre to see Brecht's Threepenny Opera. Helen Vita as buccaneer Jenny broke the ice: Petra told me about her cabaret colleague with whom I had an interview appointment for the next day.
"You could write a book about my life. I didn't tell you everything for your articles," Petra said to me as she drove me home in her ochre-yellow Opel. Petra, as Peter, wore a wide-brimmed Borsalino, braked at the traffic lights and turned towards me with a huge bang: "Do you want to write it?" — I wanted. An exciting time began: endless interviews in Petra's gold cave, her world's best potato pancakes at half past four at night, travel companions to Hamburg and on tour ... I became Petra's shadow for a year and a half. She has now told me almost everything about her life. Almost everything — because that's how well I know her by now: Petra Dorén still keeps a few bangers up her sleeve! - Michael Meissner"
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