I break the hearts of the proudest women

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I break the hearts of the proudest women is a hit song composed by Lothar Brühne in 1938 with a text by Bruno Balz . It became known in the version sung by Heinz Rühmann in the film Five million are looking for an heir . The film scene in which Heinz Rühmann in the role of Peter Pett, a vacuum cleaner salesman and variety singer, sings the song, is considered the highlight of the mistaken comedy.

Torsten Körner wrote about the song:

“The comical revelations and exaggerations of the hit are funny because they provide a counter-image to Rühmann's appearance that is immediately put to shame by the hero's chubby and boyish nature. Rühmann's best-known hit I break the hearts of the proudest women benefits from this unsustainable loud mouth. "

The song has been covered many times, including by Rudi Schuricke , Dieter Hallervorden , Annette Postel , the crashing carrier pigeons , Frank Zander and Udo Lindenberg . Max Raabe covered the song in 1998.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Rühmann - I break the hearts of the proudest women. Retrieved March 30, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Torsten Körner: The little man as a star: Heinz Rühmann and his films of the 50s , 424 pages, Campus Verlag, ISBN 3-593-36754-8
  3. ↑ Udo Lindenberg - I break the hearts of the proudest women. Retrieved March 30, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Palast Orchester with its singer Max Raabe - The greatest successes. Retrieved March 30, 2013 .