Andrea Berg

This article is about the singer. For information on the volleyball player, see Andrea Berg (volleyball player) .

Andrea Berg (2017)

Andrea Berg (* January 28, 1966 as Andrea cells in Krefeld ; bourgeois since 2007 Andrea Ferber) is a German pop singer . She had her breakthrough in 2001 with the song You lied to me a thousand times . With eight number one albums and more than 15 million records sold, she is one of the most commercially successful artists in Germany .

life and career

Before her singing career, the trained medical assistant worked, among other things, on the oncology ward of a hospital. In her spare time she danced as a funken mariechen in the carnival of the Krefeld Prinzengarde. In 1992, a music cassette with her recordings was presented to the producer Eugen Römer in Rösrath . According to her biography, he was enthusiastic about her voice, and after a week the first tracks for her debut album You are free were recorded. It contained the songs Kilimanjaro and Look me in the face again . Römer also produced their second album Emotions , which was the commercial breakthrough. The single releases If you want me, then kiss me and be alone with you once were hits. One of their greatest successes also comes from this album, The feelings have a duty of confidentiality. In 1994 she came back to first place in the ZDF hit parade as a member of the group All for All with the song Steig .

In 1997, she released her third album Träume don't lie , which rose to number 71 in the German album charts . The first single, Why only dreaming , reached number 1 on some radio stations and stayed in the listener hit parades for 15 weeks. In the summer of 1998, after the birth of their daughter, the album between a thousand feelings with twelve songs was released. This night should never end , Island of Night and Beyond Tenderness were released as singles in 1999 . The next album, entitled Because I am in love, was released in 1999, when the single Maybe one dream too many was released. The piece reached number three on the ZDF hit parade in November 1999 . In games of the year in January 2000 Andrea Berg also reached the third place. In the German top 20 airplay charts, it was number 1 for several weeks. Since October 18, 2000, “ANDREA BERG” has been registered in the German trademark register as a word mark .

In October 2001 Andrea Berg released the album Best of with twelve of her most successful songs. The album sold two million copies and went double platinum. In August 2011 the album entered the Swiss charts at number 59 and was awarded gold. At times, Berg had four of her publications in the hit lists at the same time. From 2003 to 2011 she won the German music award ECHO several times in the “German-speaking Schlager” category. From 2002 up to and including 2007 she received the golden tuning fork and in 2004 and 2005 the Amadeus Austrian Music Award for the best hit album. Her album Splitternackt , released in 2006, was number 1 on the Media Control Album Charts and stayed there for several weeks. Her hit You have lied to me a thousand times was in 2007 number 2 in the GEMA top ten international songs.

Her 2010 album Schwerelos , produced by Dieter Bohlen and marking the end of her 17-year collaboration with Eugen Römer, was awarded platinum. With the album Abenteuer , which was released in September 2011, Andrea Berg reached number 1 in the charts for the third time in a row. She took her 20th stage anniversary as an occasion for an anniversary concert tour from January to March 2012. After two studio albums with Bohlen, both initially announced that they would go their separate ways in the future. Andrea Berg's double album Atlantis , published in 2013, again contained compositions by Bohlen.

In June 2013 Andrea Berg released an album in Denmark called My Danish Collection . It went gold in the first week and rose to number one on the Danish album charts in the second week . It was Berg's first place in Denmark. In April 2013 Andrea Berg was a guest judge on an episode of the RTL casting show Deutschland sucht den Superstar . In September 2013 Berg released their 14th studio album with Atlantis . It reached first place in the charts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In April 2016 the album Seelenbeben was released , which reached first place in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The album was awarded gold there and platinum in Germany. During the preview of her soul life tour in the Rittal Arena Wetzlar in July 2016, Andrea Berg suffered burns on her shoulder and upper arm due to a failed pyrotechnic effect. For the 25th stage anniversary, she released the album 25 Years of Adventure Life in September 2017 . In April 2019, their 16th studio album, Mosaik , was released, which reached number 1 on the album charts in the DA-CH countries. The album went platinum in Germany and gold in Austria.

reception

The world author Christine Kensche wrote in one of her articles in 2013: “Berg is a superstar that the audience has been looking for itself.” Often criticized, “the, in her opinion, textual and musical arbitrariness, almost exclusively in the plain 1-2 -1-2-dance-rhythm mountain songs ” objected to. The image of women and relationships conveyed in Berg's lyrics was occasionally classified by critics as "anti-feminist" because it is always about the fact that a woman cannot be happy without a man and that everything negative is ignored. In 2016 , Kerstin Decker was skeptical about these allegations made by Georg Seeßlen in 2013 .

Private

Andrea Berg was married to Olaf Henning from 2002 to 2004 . In 2007 she married Ulrich "Uli" Ferber, the sports manager, hotelier and co-founder of SG Sonnenhof Großaspach . Together with him and the Ferber family, Berg runs a hotel in Kleinaspach.

social commitment

On November 3rd, 2008 Andrea Berg was awarded the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany for her many years of hospice work . The award ceremony by Federal President Horst Köhler took place at Bellevue Palace. For her social commitment she was awarded the City Seal of the City of Krefeld on June 15, 2009 and the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia on August 23, 2018 .

At the ZDF charity gala Welcome to Carmen Nebel on September 29, 2018 in Berlin on the occasion of ten years of the ZDF gala in favor of the German Cancer Aid, Andrea Berg solicited donations to the German Cancer Aid Foundation for the important joint fight against the widespread disease cancer. She discussed cancer in children and their improved care with Cancer Aid President Fritz Pleitgen and moderator Carmen Nebel . The socially committed singer had visited the exemplary "EKKstein Family House", which had just opened for young patients at the University Children's Hospital in Jena , and reported on the program, which was watched by 3.6 million viewers. At the end of the broadcast, the donations for cancer aid amounted to 3.2 million euros. Pleitgen and Berg thanked everyone involved for their dedicated work and the numerous people for their loyalty to donations.

Chart records

At 670 weeks, their compilation Best Of is the longest-placed album in the album charts in Austria. It has been awarded platinum 6 times.

Discography

Andrea Berg (2014)

Andrea Berg (2011)

→ Main article : Andrea Berg / Discography

Awards (selection)

• Bambi
• The one of the best
• ECHO Pop
• Golden hen
• Golden tuning fork
• Folk music crown
• 10x platinum millennium record

Web links

Commons : Andrea Berg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Andrea Berg's website
• Sandra Ludewig: The 15 top facts about Andrea Berg. 16th September 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait of Andrea Berg ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in music market 
2. ↑ Family tree of the Ferber family. ( Memento of the original of September 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 18.1 MB) p. 7 
3. ↑ Star profile Andrea Berg , Bunte
4. ↑ Andrea Berg in an interview: Privately in rubber boots. HNA Online , October 28, 2010
5. ↑ Jens Höhner: Funkenmariechen becomes a superstar , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , January 31, 2008
6. ↑ Register information: Register number: 30000239 , German Patent and Trademark Office
7. ↑ Swiss Hit Parade - Albums Top 100 08/14/2011. hitparade.ch
8. ↑ Gold / platinum database. Federal Association of the Music Industry
9. ↑ New album by Andrea Berg storms the charts , DerWesten.de , October 11, 2011
10. ↑ 20 years Andrea Berg - Adventure Tour 2012 ( Memento from January 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on andrea-berg.de
11. ↑ Andrea Berg's biography on Schlager.de
12. ↑ danishcharts.com
13. ↑ Support for Dieter Bohlen: Andrea Berg becomes a guest judge at DSDS , on n-tv.de.
14. ↑ Andrea Berg conquered number 1 in the charts with “Seelenbeben” , on Schlager.de on April 16, 2016
15. ↑ Andrea Berg: Severe burns at a concert! , Krone.at , July 18, 2016
16. ↑ Laura Müller: For the 10th time on 1 - Andrea Berg enters the charts , Schlager.de , September 22, 2017
17. ↑ Andrea Berg: The secret of success of a German phenomenon , Die Welt , January 11, 2013
18. ↑ musicforum
19. ↑ See Georg Seeßlen: A million times you , Friday , October 28, 2013
20. ↑ kurier.at
21. ↑ Kerstin Decker Andrea Berg and the emotional Merkelism , Der Tagesspiegel , November 6, 2016
22. ↑ Christoph Cöln: When Andrea Berg sings, football has a break , Welt Online , August 5, 2014
23. ↑ Christine Kensche: The secret of success of a German phenomenon. In: Welt Online . January 11, 2013, accessed March 8, 2013 . 
24. ↑ Andrea Berg - her hits, her private life, her music and her Hotel Sonnenhof. In: Schlager.de. Accessed June 8, 2020 (German). 
25. ↑ Andrea Berg receives the Federal Cross of Merit in MusikWoche , November 5, 2008
26. ^ Andrea Berg awarded ( Memento from October 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), krefeld.de
27. ↑ Newsroom: State Order of Merit NRW for Andrea Berg and Bärbel Höhn . 2018 ( wdr.de ).
28. ↑ https://www.krebshilfe.de/informieren/presse/pressemitteilungen/aktuelle-meldung/familienhaus-ekkstein-feierlich-eingeweiht/ , accessed on October 2, 2018
29. ↑ https://www.krebshilfe.de/informieren/presse/pressemitteilungen/aktuelle-meldung/verbindungen-tv-spendengala-2018/ , accessed on November 6, 2018