Juliane Werding

Juliane Werding (born July 19, 1956 in Essen ) is a German pop and pop singer .

Life

schooldays

Juliane Werding grew up in Essen and attended primary school there from 1963 and the BMV school from 1967 .

1970s

In 1970 she recorded a demo tape and sent it to the television show Talentschuppen des Südwestfunk . She was then invited to a preliminary decision, which she won. On June 19, 1971, the first appearance in the talent shed followed with the song Das Schilf . Even before the show, she received her first record deal .

Her musical breakthrough came in spring 1972 with the release of Am Tag, als Conny Kramer died on Hansa . Hans-Ulrich Weigel wrote the piece as an edited German cover version of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down ( The Band , 1969), the arrangement of which was clearly based on the English-language cover version by Joan Baez from 1971. The title reached first place in the German charts and stayed in the top ten for 14 weeks. He sold over 1,000,000 times, the following album In deeper sadness 100,000 times. At the end of the year Werding was awarded the Golden Europe of the Europawelle Saar and the golden Bravo Otto as the most popular singer of the year.

In 1973 Werding graduated from secondary school and then went to business school in Bottrop for two years .

Under the direction of its producer Peter Meisel was born in 1975 from the pen of Gunter Gabriel Dating Single If you think you think, then you only think you think . The record reached number 4 in the charts. It was followed by the third album of the same name , which was awarded the Bravo Otto and the Silver Lion by RTL , as well as other 1970s hits such as One must take life as life is ; Come and help me through the loneliness of the night and morning strangers, friends at noon .

In 1979 she worked for the first time as an actress in the film Palermo or Wolfsburg , which was directed by Werner Schroeter .

1980s

After training as a PR woman in 1982, Werding worked in a Munich PR agency . In 1983 she released Nacht voll Schatten , a German version of Mike Oldfield's Moonlight Shadow .

Don't go into town (tonight) and sun on your skin (the German version of Nik Kershaw's Wouldn't It Be Good ) was released in Germany and the Benelux countries in 1984. Together with the Munich producer and composer Harald Steinhauer and lyricist Michael Kunze released the eighth album Ohne Angst in November .

In 1985 Werding resigned and started training as a naturopath . In the German contribution to the Live Aid concert, she was a member of the Band für Afrika project initiated by Herbert Grönemeyer , and she participated in the song Nackt im Wind . In the same year she was awarded the golden tuning fork for the album Ohne Angst . After the pre-release Voices in the Wind , the ninth album Sehnsucht ist incurable was released . The album was in the charts for over a year and went platinum and triple gold for 750,000 units . The singles Das Würfelspiel and Longing is Incurable went into the top 30.

The following albums Beyond the Night (1987), Tarot (1988) and the hit collection Stations (1989) were awarded gold and there were singles such as Maybe someday , Strong feelings , Nebelmond and How far is Eden .

Their son was born in the summer of 1987, and their daughter two years later. In the same year Werding finished her training as a non-medical practitioner with an official medical examination and opened a practice in Munich. Furthermore, she was awarded the Berolina by ZDF as Artist of the Year in Berlin and again received the Golden Tuning Fork .

1990s

Udo Arndt and ex- Spliff keyboarder Reinhold Heil produced the twelfth album Zeit für Engel in 1990 , which also achieved gold status. This year Werding and her colleague Werner Stumpf published their first book Healthy with all my strength. Armand Volker produced the 13th album Zeit zu Avalon in 1991 for Werding. As in the 80s, Harald Steinhauer contributed about half of the titles, the other half she wrote with Andreas Bärtels . Werding again received the Golden Tuning Fork as the most successful artist.

Together with Andreas Bärtels and Mats Björklund , Werding first appeared as a producer in 1992. The 14th album She knows what she wants and the single of the same name stayed in the top 100 of the charts for three months. A year later she received the Golden Tuning Fork. You can do it , a cover version of the Roy Orbison hit You Got It and the 15th album of the same name were released in 1994. Werding sang the second single Engel wie Du together with Viktor Lazlo and Maggie Reilly . This trio completed a Germany tour through 20 cities in autumn - Juliane Werding's first live tour, which from then on was to be followed by more about every two years.

For her 1997 work Land of the Slow Time , she not only received an Echo nomination, but also her fifth golden tuning fork. Her maxi CD was also released that year, do you know who I am? With their title song, which takes on the topic of reincarnation , Juliane Werding also appeared in the ZDF hit parade , albeit without placing herself.

In 1999 Werding contributed the title song Alles kann passier'n for the ARD series Drei mit Herz . A year later I Remember, a duet with Howard Jones . Werding and Howard presented this title once at the award ceremony of the Golden Europe.

Since 2000

For the release of the album Der Weg 1972–1999 , she toured Germany with her eight-member band in 2000 and played 27 concerts. Towards the end of the year she took an acting course and played a role in the play The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler . The play was performed in the Munich Metropol Theater .

In 2001, together with the theologian Uwe Birnstein , she published her second book Tell me, Lord Jesus ... - and other interviews with people from the Bible ; In 2003 the 2nd, revised edition appeared. Between February and April 2002 she toured 24 German cities. At the start of the tour, the song book Lieder was published 1971-2001 with 183 texts. In June and July Werding played a newly staged version of the vagina monologues in the Munich Metropol Theater .

Further albums followed, There is no turning back and the world afterwards, as well as the Juliane Werding DVD with a concert recording from the Friedrichstadtpalast in Berlin . Her 21st album, Sehnsucher , was released in 2006, followed by the book of the same name Sehnsucher - 7 Ways to Live With Longing . In autumn Juliane Werding & Band went on tour again. The program was released as Juliane Werding's first live CD.

Together with Uwe Birnstein, she published her new book / audio book "Whores, hypocrites, saints - interviews with people in the Bible" in October 2007. Shortly afterwards, the song Haus überm Meer appeared as a harbinger of their 22nd album . The corresponding album, Ruhe vor dem Sturm , entered the official Media Control Charts as the week's highest newcomer in January 2008 and thus achieved its most successful chart placement in 18 years. In February and March Juliane Werding and the band went on tour again.

In 2009 Werding withdrew from show business in order to work again as a non-medical practitioner in a community practice in Starnberg, Upper Bavaria .

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes)			Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	Remarks
1972	In deep sorrow (Juliane Werding)	DE19 (5 months) DE	-	-	First published: August 16, 1972
1973	My name is Juliane	-	-	-	First published: 1973
1975	When you think, you think, then you just think, you think	DE30 (2 months) DE	-	-	First published: October 16, 1975
1977	Oh man, oh man	-	-	-	First published: 1977
1978	... one step further	-	-	-	First published: 1978
1980	Dreamland also known as: Towards Me (1988 re-release)	-	-	-	First published: 1980
1984	Unafraid	-	-	-	First published: 1984
1986	Longing is incurable	DE17th platinum (62 weeks)DE	-	-	First published: February 28, 1986 Sales: + 500,000
1987	Beyond the night	DE8th gold (20 weeks)DE	-	-	First published: March 27, 1987 Sales: + 250,000
1988	Tarot	DE11 gold (31 weeks)DE	-	-	First published: July 25, 1988 Sales: + 250,000
1990	Time for angels	DE10 gold (15 weeks)DE	-	-	First published: Aug 21, 1990 Sales: + 250,000
1991	Time to go to Avalon	DE42 (11 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: October 14, 1991
1992	she knows what she wants	DE36 (11 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: October 16, 1992
1994	You can do it!	DE35 (12 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: August 26, 1994
1995	Everything okay?	-	-	-	First published: October 20, 1995
1997	Land of slow time	DE42 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: September 1, 1997
1998	she	DE41 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: November 30, 1998
2001	There is no turning back	DE65 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: August 27, 2001
2004	The world after	DE36 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: July 5, 2004
2006	Longer	DE45 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: March 17, 2006
2008	calm before the storm	DE21 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: January 11, 2008