A German Life

Friday 26th April 2019

Maggie Smith in A German Life. Photo: Helen Maybanks
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Text of the day: “They were bewitched by this tiny man. It was like, I don’t know, Jesus or something. You have to admit, Goebbels was a wonderful actor… well, a good actor, let’s say. It was an actor’s transformation: this quiet, elegant, serious man we saw in the office, transformed into a demented midget.” (Pomsel in Christopher Hampton’s A German Life)

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