Helga Zerrenz

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Helga Zerrenz (* 1940 in Berlin ) is a German pop singer . She had her greatest successes in the GDR in the 1960s .

biography

Helga Zerrenz was born out of wedlock. Her father was a soldier. Her mother refused her and had her declared insane , so that she was admitted to an institution for the mentally handicapped in Brandenburg . There she was tortured and harassed. When she was twelve she was examined and found to be normal. She was then taken to a children's home, where the director of the home sexually assaulted her.

At the age of 18, Helga Zerrenz aspired to a career as a singer and applied to the talent promoter Heinz Quermann . With her smoky voice, she quickly became a well-known and sought-after pop singer. Her breakthrough came with the song picking cherries in strange gardens . In 1967 she sang her most successful hit, Die Lichter im Hafen (music: Wolfgang Kähne, text: Dieter Schneider ). In 1968 she interpreted the song Waltz of the Summer by the West German singer Alexandra . Recording was banned in the GDR.

The singer now lives in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg .

Discography

Singles

  • 1967: Say ... ( Gerti Möller ) / I'm looking for you ( Amiga )
  • 1968: The lights in the harbor / I think those in love have a good star (Christian Schafrik) (Amiga)
  • 1997: Farewell to the Sea (CD, Alles Reco)

Songs on compilations

  • 1967: I'm looking for you on Schlager 1967 (Amiga)
  • 1968: The lights in the harbor to hit start (Amiga)
  • 1969: Farewell to Schlager free home (Amiga)
  • 1969: Letter to you on Schlager in the finish (Amiga)
  • 1969: Charlie at the meeting point of the talents in the AMIGA studio (Amiga)
  • 1988: The lights in the harbor on AMIGA cocktail 1987–1988 (Amiga)
  • 1995: How many dreams on a sweet hit rendezvous (Album Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: MDR report on Helga Zerrenz , accessed on February 27, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mdr.de
personal data
SURNAME Zerrenz, Helga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop singer (GDR)
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin