Marion Maerz

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Marion Maerz at the benefit concert Cover me in Cologne 2007
Marion Maerz at the benefit concert Cover me in Cologne 2007
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
He is back
  DE 6th December 20, 1965 (18 weeks)
  AT 2 02/15/1966 (8 weeks)
We stick together
  DE 29 05/02/1966 (7 weeks)
I had a good friend
  DE 33 December 05, 1966 (7 weeks)
It is so good
  DE 42 11/13/1972 (3 weeks)
STEFAN
  DE 46 06/04/1973 (1 week)
You're leaving (with Anthony Monn )
  DE 15th 09/08/1975 (13 weeks)

Marion Maerz (born August 17, 1943 in Flensburg ; real life Marion Litterscheid ) is a German pop singer .

Life

Marion Maerz went to school in Hanover and trained as a secretary after graduating from high school . In 1964 she was discovered at a Pepsi-Cola talent competition in Hanover . First, she recorded two singles under her real name that were hardly known, including a German version of Twinkle's British hit Terry in 1965 . In the autumn of 1965 Christian Bruhn composed the beat hit He is back for her , which she recorded as “Marion”. The song hit the charts in December 1965 and lasted for several weeks. It is her biggest hit to this day.

In 1966 she applied with Mach not the door to the German Schlager Festival , but did not make it to the final. Even after that, she was unable to build on her initial success. The album Marion Maerz sings Burt Bacharach - page one , with compositions by Burt Bacharach , hardly sold, but is now considered a cult. In 1972 she took part in the German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest with the title Hallelujah Man, written by Klaus Doldinger . After she and her then partner Frank Elstner had a daughter Masha (now also a singer) in 1975, Marion Maerz withdrew to a large extent into private life, but until the end of the 1970s she still had various hits and occasionally made it into the charts (Among other things with the duet Schau mal ein with Bernd Clüver , the German version of the hit Stumblin 'In by Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman ). Her best-known solo title from this time is Es war nur der Sommerwind (1978).

Maerz then cultivated her career as an actress on various theater stages. In the early 1990s she also took on some popular titles (including You are the rose from Lake Wörthersee ).

Discography

Albums

Success title (selection)

  • 1964 love at first sight (as Marion Litterscheid)
  • 1965 Terry (as Marion Litterscheid)
  • 1965 He's back
  • 1965 blue, blue, blue
  • 1966 I had a good friend
  • 1968 Far, far, far
  • 1971 Who seeks love (Cover of Stand by your man - Tammy Wynette)
  • 1972 It's that good
  • 1973 Shalom (original version from Turkish: Selçuk Ural - Güle Güle Sana )
  • 1975 You go away (duet with Anthony Monn; cover by Tu t'en vas - Alain Barrière & Noëlle Cordier)
  • 1976 Lake Maggiore in the snow
  • 1977 in Greece
  • 1978 It was just the summer wind
  • 1979 Music Box Dancer
  • 1979 Take a look (with Bernd Clüver; Cover of Stumblin 'In - Chris Norman & Suzi Quatro)
  • 1979 Dreams (Cover of Dreaming - Blondie)
  • 1990 You are the rose from the Wörthersee
  • 2003 Unfortunately, my heart was in the game
  • 2007 Late love

Awards

Web links

Commons : Marion Maerz  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart discography Germany ( details )
personal data
SURNAME March, Marion
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Litterscheid, Marion (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH August 17, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg