Marlene Dietrich ndi woimba wotchuka kwambiri padziko lonse. Dziko lawo laling'ono ndilo chigawo cha Berlin cha Schöneberg, ndipo pa December 27, 1901 anabadwira m'banja la Louis Erich Otto Dietrich, apolisi, ndi Johanna Felsing.
Ku Berlin, Marlene anapita kusukulu ya sekondale kufikira 1918. Pa nthawi yomweyi adaphunzira zowawa pa profesa wa Germany Dessau. Kuchokera mu 1919 mpaka 1921 iye anapita ku makalasi a nyimbo, anaphunzira ndi Pulofesa Robert Raitz mumzinda wa Weimar. Kenaka analowa sukulu ya ochita masewera, okonzedwa ndi Max Reinhardt ku Berlin. Kuyambira m'chaka cha 1922, wakhala akugwira ntchito zing'onozing'ono m'mabwalo ambiri a Berlin. Chaka chomwecho chinadziwikanso ndi mawonekedwe ake pawindo pa filimuyo yotchedwa "Mnyamata wachinyamata wa Napoleon."
1924 - ukwati wa Marlene Dietrich. Ali ndi mwamuna wake woyamba, Rudolph Zieber, anakhala ndi moyo zaka zisanu, ngakhale kuti adakali pa ukwati wawo mpaka imfa ya Rudolph mu 1976.
December 1924 anadziwika ndi kubadwa kwa mwana wamkazi wa Mary.
Ntchito ku cinema ndi kumalo otchuka Marlen adayambanso kuchokera mu 1925, ndipo mu 1928 anayamba kulembera nyimbozo pa mbale ndi revue ensemble yotchedwa "Iyo ikukula mlengalenga." Chaka chotsatira, Marlene anawonekera ndi Joseph von Sternberg mu revue "Mawiri awiri", ndipo adaitanidwa kuti ayambe kuyang'ana mu filimuyo "Blue Angel" m'malo mwa Lola Lola. Kale mu 1930 Dietrich anasindikiza mgwirizano wogwira ntchito ndi Paramount yamphamvu ndipo pa tsiku loyamba la Blue Angel, pa April 1, 1930, adachoka ku Germany.
Marlene Dietrich wapeza mbiri yapadziko lonse chifukwa cha mafilimu asanu ndi limodzi omwe anatulutsidwa ku Hollywood. Ndipo mu 1939 iye anakhala nzika ya US.
Pambuyo pake mu biography ya Dietrich, pali kupambana kokha. Iye anali wochita masewera olimbitsa ndalama kwambiri pa nthawi imeneyo. Kutchuka kwake sikunathe. Anayang'ana pa chithunzi chotchuka "Shanghai Express" komanso mu filimu yotchuka "Venus Blonde", yomwe ili ndi udindo wina wolembedwa ndi Cary Grant. Marlene Dietrich adalengedwa pawindoli chithunzi chozama komanso chodziwika bwino cha mkazi wopanda makhalidwe apadera, koma nthawi zonse ankafuna kuyesa maudindo ena.
Kuchokera mu March 1943, kwa zaka zitatu adapereka makompyuta m'magulu. Ndipo kumapeto kwa nkhondo, ntchito yake inakwera kachiwiri. Marlene adasewera muzinthu zambiri zamaseŵera otchuka, kuphatikizapo Broadway.
Dietrich anawonekera m'mafilimu 1-2 chaka chilichonse.
1947 - Kubwerera kwa Marlene Dietrich ku America. Kusewera mafilimu kumakhala kochepetsetsa, amasewera maudindo apadera. Komabe, nthawi imeneyi ya ntchito yake anapeza talente yodabwitsa. Kotero mu filimu ya 1957 "Mboni ya Purezidenti" Marlene anapambana mokwanira gawo la mkazi yemwe anapulumutsa mwamuna wake kundende. Seweroli linanenanso kuti heroine adanyengedwanso ndi mwamuna wake.
Mu filimu ina, Nuremberg Mayesero (1961), adapatsa mzimayi wamasiye wina wamtendere wina yemwe sakanatha kudziyanjanitsa ndi kugonjetsedwa kwa Reichstag. Dietrich anafalitsa momveka bwino kutentheka kotengeka kwa maganizo a chipani cha Nazi chifukwa cha chithunzi cha heroine wake. Udindo wake unali wovuta ndi chikhalidwe chobisika chodziwika bwino ndi makhalidwe abwino kwambiri a heroine.
Pambuyo pake, Marlene Dietrich anakhala wocheperapo mu mafilimu, koma adakhalabe pa siteji. Panthawi imeneyi, anayamba kuchita mwakhama mapulogalamu ndi mafilimu m'magazini okongola.
1953 - akuonedwa ngati kuyamba kwa ntchito yake yabwino monga wosangalatsa komanso woimba yemwe anayambitsa Las Vegas. Pa zojambulazo, Marlene sanawonekere.
Mu 1960, Dietrich anapita ku Germany ndi maulendo. Ndipo mu 1963 nyimbo zake zinaperekedwa bwino ku Leningrad ndi Moscow.
1979 - kusintha kwa Marlene, pamene ntchitoyi inaopsezedwa chifukwa cha ngozi. Wojambula adalandira kupweteka kwa m'chiuno pa nthawi ya ntchito pa siteji.
Kenaka anatsatira zaka 12 za moyo, ali pabedi. Dietrich sakanakhoza kuyenda, ndipo iye ankangokhalira kulankhulana ndi anthu akunja pokha pothandizidwa ndi telefoni. Zaka zonsezi Marlene anakhala ku Paris, mu nyumba yake.
May 6, 1992, Marlene Dietrich anamwalira m'nyumba yake ku Paris. Malamulo a imfa yake ndi kuphwanya impso ndi mtima. Komabe, molingana ndi zosavomerezeka, Dietrich anatenga mlingo waukulu wa mapiritsi ogona kuti asapewe zotsatira zopweteka za kutaya kwa ubongo - zomwe zinachitika madzulo, pa 4 May.
Pa July 24, 2008, mu chigawo cha Schöneberg, panyumba kumene Marlene Dietrich anabadwira, chilemba cha chikumbutso chinayikidwa mu ulemu wake.