Oh Hermine

In a letter to Anton Walbrook/Adolf Wohlbrück Hermine Körner maintained that an actor only can enact/evoke those feelings he personally knows congratulating him on his portrayal of Hjalmar Ekdal in Ibsen's The Wild Duck - a slight side note here to the advocates of Anonymous (the movie) Anton Walbrook was never married nor had he any alleged children, so Hermine, who was well aware of this, was not commenting on some autobiographic anecdote, but surely referred to a sensible and sensitive capacity. An interesting point when one considers that Anton Walbrook wanted these letters to be published after Hermine Körner's death because of the profoundness of their thoughts - btw he did not want people to know their addressee because he believed that this would make him look showy, yet Amy Smith, the editor and longterm friend of Hermine, nevertheless revealed his name and Friedrich Luft even cared to retell the story he had heard of Anton Walbrook of his first rendezvous with Hermine after WW2. A wonderful book btw : Amy Smith, Hermine Körner, alas it is only available in German.