Anna German
Anna Viktoria German ( Polish Anna Wiktoria German-Tucholska, German Anna Victoria Hörmann; born February 14, 1936 in Urgentsch , Uzbek SSR ; † August 25, 1982 in Warsaw ) became known as a Polish singer of Russian German descent. She sang in Polish and Russian , but also in German , English , Italian , Spanish , Mongolian and Latin .
Life
Anna Viktoria German was born in Urgensch, a small town in Uzbekistan, then part of the Soviet Union . Her parents were Russian Germans of the Mennonite faith . Her father was Eugen Hörmann, who came from a pastor's family in a Russian-German village. He was born on a trip to Łódź in Poland (then part of the Russian Empire) and is therefore incorrectly referred to as a Pole in some sources. German is the Russified form of the German name Hörmann. In 1937/38 he was executed by the Soviet NKVD . Anna, her mother Irma (née Martens) and her grandmother were then exiled to Uzbekistan . Anna German Plautdietsch spoke to her mother .
The mother Irma was a German teacher in a Soviet school for a while. After the beginning of the Second World War , she managed to disguise her German ancestry and gave Dutch as her nationality in order to protect the family from persecution that most Russian Germans were exposed to due to the German-Soviet war . Through a second marriage to the Polish officer Herman Gerner, who had also been exiled to Uzbekistan, the mother succeeded in moving to Poland in 1946 and thus putting herself and her daughter Anna out of danger. Anna had only been able to attend school for one year in the Soviet Union, but now spoke Russian as well as German.
In Poland, the family, consisting of mother, grandmother and Anna, first settled in Nowa Ruda ( Neurode ) in Lower Silesia, now in Poland , before moving to Breslau in 1949 . Anna German also successfully completed her studies in geology at the university there . Anna began performing as a singer in the Kalambur Theater in Wroclaw while she was still a student . She had her first success as a singer in 1964 at the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole with her song Tańczące Eurydyki . A year later, she took first place at the Sopot Music Festival .
In 1967 she was invited to participate in the prestigious Sanremo Festival in Italy. With the song Gi she had her first success in Western Europe. In Italy, they also appeared in the opera Tetide in Sciro by Domenico Scarlatti on. In 1967 she barely survived a serious car accident and did not appear in public again until 1972. She then devoted herself again to music and in the following time also took on several small roles as an actress, for example in Andrzej Wajda's film Landscape after the Battle .
Also in 1972 she married her childhood friend Zbigniew Tucholski, who according to his faith was a Seventh-day Adventist . Their son Zbigniew was born three years later.
She also appeared at the Cannes Music Fair . As one of the few singers from the socialist countries, she toured West Germany , Belgium , the USA , Canada and Australia . However, she continued to perform in Eastern European countries, including the GDR . The Soviet company Melodija (Мелодия) has published a number of albums by her since 1965, including after her death in 1982. Very popular Soviet composers composed for Anna German such as Alexandra Pachmutowa (Александра Пахмутова), Arno Babajanjan (Арнанава), Arno Babajanjan (Арнано Бжанаschanjan (Евгений Птичкин), Jan Frenkel (Ян Френкель), Oskar Felzmann (Оскар Фельцман) and Wladimir Schainski (Владимир Шаинский).
1982 Anna German died at the age of only 46 years to cancer and was buried in Warsaw.
She released over a dozen albums, most of them in Russian and Polish. In 2001 six of her albums were re-released on CD, and compilations with her music appear regularly in Poland and Russia .
Your son lives in Poland today and is a scientist. Her uncle Artur Hörmann lived in Germany until his death in 2011.
Reception and honors
On June 20, 2013, the Augsburg city council decided unanimously to name a footpath after Anna German. “The path is in the middle of the northern university district, where many Russian Germans have lived since the 1980s,” explained Wilfried Matzke, head of the geodata office. Anna German was a singer of Russian-German descent and was proposed by the " Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland " [ Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland ].
Even more than three decades after her death, Anna German is firmly anchored in the collective consciousness of the Polish and Russian population, which is documented by the fact that in 2012 in Russia and 2013 in Poland a multi-part television series about her life was broadcast on national television with great success has been. Also as a result of this TV biography, the article in the Polish-language Wikipedia was viewed more than two and a half million times in 2013, making it the most-read article of the year.
The main outer belt asteroid (2519) Annagerman was named after her.
Discography
Albums
- 1964: Na tamten brzeg
- 1965: Tańczące Eurydyki
- 1967: Recital piosenek
- 1967: I classici della musica napoletana
- 1970: Człowieczy loses
- 1971: Domenico Scarlatti - Arie z opery Tetide in Sciro
- 1972: Wiatr mieszka w dzikich topolach
- 1974: To chyba maj
- 1978: Anna German
- 1979: Pomyśl o mnie
- 1979: Tylko w tangu / Dookoła kipi lato
- 1979: Śpiewa Anna German
- 1979: Z archiwum polskiego radia - Nagrania radiowe z lat 1961–1979 (PL:
gold) - 1980: Надежда (Nadeschda)
- 1982: Последняя встреча (Poslednjaja vstretscha)
- 2013: 40 piosenek Anny German (Złota kolekcja) CD (PL:gold)
Singles
- 1964: The Man I Love
Later reprints
- 1984: Jesteś moja miłością LP
- 1987: Эхо любви (Echo ljubwi) - live '79 LP
- 1989: Anna German LP
- 1989: Znaki zapytania LP
- 1990: Powracające słowa vol. 1 LP
- 1990: Powracające słowa vol. 2 LP
- 1991: Zakwitnę różą CD
- 1991: Recital piosenek CD
- 1994: Nasza ścieżka CD
- 1994: Złote przeboje neapolitanskie MC
- 1995: Planeta Anna part 1 MC
- 1995: Planeta Anna part 2 MC
- 1996: Незабытый мотив (Nesabity motiw) CD
- 1996: Лучшие песни (Lutschshije pesni) CD
- 1998: Когда цвели сады (Kogda zweli sady) CD
- 1998: Wiatr mieszka w dzikich topolach CD
- 1999: Tańczące Eurydyki CD
- 1999: Platynowa kolekcja CD
- 1999: Złote przeboje CD
- 1999: Bal u Posejdona (Złota kolekcja) CD (PL:gold)
- 1999: Антология советского шлягера (Antologjia sowetskogo schljagera) MC
- 2000: Анна Герман. Российская эстрадная музыкальная энциклопедия (Rossiyskaya estradnaja musykalnaja encyclopaedia) CD
- 2000: Последняя встреча (Poslednyaya vstrecha) CD
- 2001: Любви негромкие слова (Ljubwi negromkije sloa) CD
- 2001: Ваши любимые песни (Vaschi ljubimyje pesni) CD
- 2001: Tańczące Eurydyki CD
- 2001: Recital piosenek CD
- 2001: Człowieczy los CD
- 2001: Wiatr mieszka w dzikich topolach CD
- 2001: Domenico Scarlatti - Arie z opery "Tetida in Sciro" CD
- 2001: To chyba maj CD
- 2001: Pomyśl o mnie CD
- 2001: Lutschee - Swjosdy sovetskoj estrady CD
- 2002: Najlepsze piosenki CD
- 2003: Наши лучшие песни (Nashi lyubimie pesni) CD
- 2003: Człowieczy los collection CD
- 2003: Золотой век русской эстрады (Solotoj wek russkoj estrady) CD
- 2003: Посидим, помолчим. Полное собрание песен (Posidim, pomoltschim) vol. 1 CD
- 2003: Спасибо тебе мое сердце. Полное собрание песен (Spasibo tebe mojo serdze) vol. 2 CD
- 2004: Złote przeboje CD
- 2004: Самое лучшее (Samoje lutschscheje) CD
Web links
- Anna German in the Internet Movie Database .
- Fanpage from Anna German .
- The Russian song "Надежда" sung by Anna German on the official website of the composer Alexandra Pachmutowa (MP3; 1.8 MB)
- « Echo of love »; in the film " Das Schicksal", 1977 / in a duet with Lev Lestschenko ( memento from September 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Anna Wiktoria German-Tucholska - memori.pl. Retrieved March 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Anna-German-Festival 2005 ( Memento from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), plautdietsch-freunde.de, accessed on February 21, 2011
- ↑ biography on anna-german.com
- ^ The "Ave Maria", strict and solemn , Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, February 17, 2006
- ↑ Premiere on the street sign , Augsburger Allgemeine, July 5, 2013
- ^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on August 21, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1975 VD 2 . Discovered 1975 Nov. 2 by TM Smirnova at Nauchnyj. "
- ↑ Awards for music sales: PL
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | German, Anna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | German, Anna Viktoria (full name); German-Tucholska, Anna Viktoria; Hörmann, Anna Victoria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Urgench , Uzbek SSR |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 1982 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |