A German Life review – Maggie Smith shines as Goebbels' secretary

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Smith returns to the stage in triumph as she relives one woman’s extraordinary experience in Nazi Germany

returns in triumph. But this is no barnstorming performance. She plays, with just the right verbal hesitancy and moral evasiveness, a woman who worked in Joseph Goebbels’ ministry of propaganda during the second world war.Brunhilde PomselPomsel found herself at the centre of events almost by chance. Through her shorthand skills, she quickly moved from work with an insurance broker to a job at the German Broadcasting Corporation before becoming part of Goebbels’ propaganda machine.

 

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Reminds me of Adam Bock’s The Receptionist, played by Jayne Houdyshell in the production I saw.

A relative and keen theatre goer of many years standing who has seen this performance thinks it is the best night in the theatre he has ever experienced

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