However a few German films and film-makers did achieve international recognition at this time, among them Bernhard Wicki's Oscar-nominated Die Brücke ( The Bridge ) ( 1959 ), and the actresses Hildegard Knef and Romy Schneider.

Hildegard and Jutta most likely prayed, meditated, read scriptures such as the psalter, and did some sort of handwork during the hours of the Divine Office.

Abbot Kuno did not relent, however, until Hildegard was stricken by an illness that kept her paralyzed and unable to move from her bed, an event that she attributed to God's unhappiness at her not following his orders to move her nuns to Rupertsberg.

In 1998 Garmarna did a series of concerts in churches in the North of Sweden presenting their interpretation of the medieval works of Hildegard of Bingen, together with actress Felicia Konrad.

(; ) ( 1098 – 17 September 1179 ), also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath.

Hildegard was raised in a family of free nobles.

Some scholars speculate that Hildegard was placed in the care of Jutta, the daughter of Count Stephan II of Sponheim, at the age of eight, before the two women were enclosed together six years later.

Hildegard also tells us that Jutta taught her to read and write, but that she was unlearned and therefore incapable of teaching Hildegard Biblical interpretation.

Upon Jutta's death in 1136, Hildegard was unanimously elected as " magistra " of the community by her fellow nuns.

It was only when the Abbot himself could not move Hildegard that he decided to grant the nuns their own monastery.

Hildegard says that she first saw " The Shade of the Living Light " at the age of three, and by the age of five she began to understand that she was experiencing visions.

Hildegard was hesitant to share her visions, confiding only to Jutta, who in turn told Volmar, Hildegard's tutor and, later, secretary.

It was between November 1147 and February 1148 at the synod in Trier that Pope Eugenus heard about Hildegard ’ s writings.

On 17 September 1179, when Hildegard died, her sisters claimed they saw two streams of light appear in the skies and cross over the room where she was dying.

In addition to her music, Hildegard also wrote three books of visions, the first of which, her Scivias (" Know the Way "), was completed in 1151.

In these volumes, the last of which was completed when she was about 75, Hildegard first describes each vision, then interprets them through Biblical exegesis.

Hildegard of Bingen was well known for her healing powers involving practical application of tinctures, herbs, and precious stones.

Maddocks claims that it is likely Hildegard learned simple Latin, and the tenets of the Christian faith, but was not instructed in the Seven Liberal Arts, which formed the basis of all education for the learned classes in the Middle Ages: the Trivium of grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric plus the Quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.

Hildegard was creative in her interpretation of theology.

Hildegard was one of the first persons for whom the Roman canonization process was officially applied, but the process took so long that four attempts at canonization were not completed, and she remained at the level of her beatification.

She was the inspiration for Dr. Gottfried Hertzka's " Hildegard-Medicine ", and is the namesake for June Boyce-Tillman's Hildegard Network, a healing center that focuses on a holistic approach to wellness and brings

Hildegard's reincarnation has been debated since 1924 when Austrian mystic Rudolf Steiner lectured that a nun of her description was the past life of Russian poet Vladimir Soloviev, whose Sophianic visions are often compared to Hildegard.

As the only surviving adult son of Charlemagne and Hildegard, he became the sole ruler of the Franks after his father's death in 814, a position which he held until his death, save for the period 833 – 34, during which he was deposed.

He was the third son of Charlemagne by his wife Hildegard.

Walter Burns ( Cary Grant ) is a hard-boiled editor for The Morning Post who learns his ex-wife and former star reporter, Hildegard " Hildy " Johnson ( Rosalind Russell ), is about to marry bland insurance man Bruce Baldwin ( Ralph Bellamy ) and settle down to a quiet life as a wife and mother in Albany, New York.

In her Vita, Hildegard explains that from a very young age she had experienced visions.

She had several rather fanatic followers, including Guibert of Gembloux, who wrote frequently to Hildegard and eventually became her secretary after Volmar died in 1173.

In 853 it was given to the nunnery at Zürich by Louis the German, which he had founded for his daughter Hildegard.

Hildegard von Bingen had a dream of founding her own abbey, and she suffered a lot of setbacks in the process.

The monk himself relates that he was raised by Adalbert, a former soldier who had fought against the Saxons, the Avars (" Huns " in his text ) and the Slavs under the command of Kerold, brother of Hildegard, Charlemagne's second wife ; he was also a friend of Adalbert's son, Werinbert, another monk at Saint Gall, who died as the book was in progress.

The first issue had 16 pages, with the cover showing actress Hildegard Knef.

Albrecht and Hildegard had 3 children:

This had an all-star German cast including Hildegard Knef as Alraune and Erich von Stroheim as the scientist.

However, Jutta's enclosure date is known to be in 1112, at which time Hildegard would have been fourteen.

It is possible that Hildegard could have been a chantress and a worker in the herbarium and infirmarium.

This also might have been a time when Hildegard learned how to play the ten-stringed psaltery.

It is unsure when some of Hildegard ’ s compositions were composed, though the Ordo Virtutum is thought to have been composed as early as 1151.

Hildegard has been portrayed on film by Patricia Routledge in a dramatized BBC biographical documentary called " Hildegard Von Bingen In Portrait: Ordo Virtutum.

Although no official announcement was given, it was reported in December 2011 that Pope Benedict intended to declare Hildegard of Bingen as a Doctor of the Church despite her not yet having been officially canonised.

His wife Hildegard Schmidt has been responsible for the group's management and record label, Spoon Records, since the 1970s.

It appears the gang has been joined by former barmaid Hildegard, but her status is not clear.