Anne Bärenz

Anne Bärenz (born October 26, 1950 in Hainstadt ; † August 26, 2005 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German singer , pianist and a local star in the Hessian and especially Frankfurt music scene.

Life

Bärenz was born in 1950 in Hainstadt near Seligenstadt . Anne Bärenz did her first exercises on the piano at the age of five, after which she received her first lessons at the age of seven. She later studied piano at the Frankfurt Music Academy.

However, Anne Bärenz did not want to become a piano teacher or concert pianist, but preferred the risky path between serious and popular music . Here she developed a gentle and humorous synthesis between classical literature and pop songs. She made music and lived with the cellist Frank Wolff . In the 1980s and 90s both played a varied mixture of rock, blues, jazz and classical elements together with Jos Rinck and Willi Kappich in the Frankfurt Kurorchester . Since 2002 she has performed with Frank Wolff, Sabine Fischmann , Ali Neander and Markus Neumeyer inNew Frankfurt School Orchestra .

With her voice she effortlessly changed from soft ballads to Tom Waits to the energetic singing of Janis Joplin to Liesl Karlstadt in Chinese. She not only sang weird blackbird songs, but also inspired enthusiasm as the “Hessian Janis Joplin” in the New Frankfurt School Orchestra as a vital blues and rock interpreter. Bärenz interpreted texts by Robert Gernhardt and Heinrich Heine . Her style of making music and composing was committed to a collage-like condensation of contradicting elements and in this way made the familiar strange and the strange familiar.

Anne Bärenz died of cancer in Frankfurt am Main at the age of 54. At the funeral service on September 2, 2005 in Frankfurt's main cemetery , Regina Michalke and FW Bernstein said goodbye to her with personal memories.

Web links

Grave of Anne Bärenz in Frankfurt am Main

• Agency website about Anne Bärenz and Frank Wolff
• Works by and about Anne Bärenz in the catalog of the German National Library