In the novels of the period the dilemma was felicitously solved by the discovery, on the last page, that the apparently penniless heroine was really a great heiress .
Over ten years have passed since Gerhard Schrder's Agenda 2010 reforms helped transform a country beset by high unemployment into today's powerful economy.
She is revealing her extraordinary rise out of a desperately poor childhood to becoming an international screen goddess to her relationships with her leading men.