Angie Stardust

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Angie Stardust (* 1939 in Norfolk , Virginia ; † 2007 in Hamburg ) was a black German - American trans singer , stage artist , film actress and nightclub operator .

Life

Angie Stardust was born in 1939 in Norfolk (Virginia), but soon moved to the parents' divorce with her mother to Harlem ( New York City ). Already at the age of 14 she was on stage for the first time and asserted herself against racism in the white travesty scene, among other things she appeared in the well-known "82 Club" and in the "Jewel Box Review". She reported having been affected by racist and trans-hostile attacks by the New York police during this time. She began her transition in New York , after which she received fewer opportunities to perform. Presumably that's why she toured Europe and performed in Cannes, Marseilles and Paris. In 1974 she finally settled in Germany, first in West Berlin, where she appeared in “ Chez Nous ” and in 1983 she starred in Rosa von Praunheim's film City of Lost Souls - Berlin Blues . In the musical-like film, she played a transsexual pension landlady and dancer from New York who lives in West Berlin.

In 1983 she went to Hamburg, where one of the liveliest travesty scenes was created after the war. There she directed the "Crazy Boys", the first gay striptease theater in Germany. She quickly became the star of the powder keg cabaret that still exists today. In 1991 she founded her own nightclub, "Angie's Nightclub" in Schmidts Tivoli -Theater, in which she appeared every evening, especially in the early years, and sang her favorite standards of soul and jazz, pop and musical with a smoky voice and provided a stage for artist friends and young talents . "She brought in the flair with her personality, her presence and her entertainment qualities," said the theater director Corny Littmann . Her hit Do it Yourself became known far beyond the scene. As a Hamburg scene personality, she was nicknamed "Big Mama of Soul". Her nightclub, which still exists today, counted numerous celebrities as regular guests, including singer Marla Glen , Thomas D from the Fantastischen Vier , comedian Helge Schneider , actor Moritz Bleibtreu and US director Oliver Stone .

In the late 1990s, Stardust suffered a heart attack and multiple strokes and gave up running the nightclub. In the last years of her life, Angie Stardust used a wheelchair and had a carer, Annette Tillmann. In 1998 the Lübecker Wunsch Company eV was able to fulfill its heartfelt wish to see Paris again, for which the German Embassy provided a driver. Stardust died at the age of 67. On November 16, 2007, a memorial concert took place at Angie's Nightclub.

Filmography

  • Hard Women (1970)
  • The Nightmare Woman (1981)
  • City of Lost Souls (1983)
  • Welcome All Sexes: 30 Years of Teddy Awards (2016)

Discography

  • Lady Madame, Chez Nous, 1990
  • Do It Yourself, Polydor, 1994
  • City of Lost Souls, 1983
  • Inside Me, ok magic, 1995

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angie Stardust: Angie Stardust. Retrieved July 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt- Hamburg: Angie Stardust is dead. October 31, 2007, accessed on July 10, 2020 (German).
  3. ^ Public Performance, Public Lives. In: San Francisco Bay Times. February 23, 2017, accessed July 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Insa Gall: Memorial concert: Farewell to Angie Stardust in Angie's . In: THE WORLD . October 31, 2007 ( welt.de [accessed July 10, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Angie's | Nightclub in Schmidts Tivoli | Live music dancing cocktails. Retrieved July 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Angie Stardust. Retrieved on July 10, 2020 (German).
  7. ↑ 3. Heart's wish. Retrieved July 10, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Angie Stardust. Travesty and soul - that was her life. In: Hamburger Morgenpost. November 1, 2007, accessed July 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Stardust, Angie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American singer, stage artist, film actress and nightclub operator
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Norfolk , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH 2007
Place of death Hamburg