Kessler Twins

The Kessler sisters enjoyed a significant degree of popularity in the US as well, making their American television debut on the CBS variety show The Red Skelton Hour and appearing on national television programs such as The Ed Sullivan Show.

They also appeared in the 1963 film Sodom and Gomorrah as dancers and were featured on the cover of Life Magazine that same year.

The twins represented West Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1959, finishing in 8th place with "Heute Abend wollen wir tanzen geh'n" ("Tonight we want to go dancing").

[1] The Kessler twins moved back to Germany in 1986 and live in Grünwald, Bavaria.

They have received awards from both the German and Italian governments for promoting German-Italian cooperation through their work in show business.

The Kessler Twins pictured on the Italian magazine TV Sorrisi e Canzoni in 1965
The Kessler Twins performing on The Danny Kaye Show in 1966