Manuela (singer)

Manuela (1971)

Manuela (born August 18, 1943 in Berlin ; † February 13, 2001 , bourgeois Doris Inge Wegener ) was a German pop singer who was one of the stars and teenage idols in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1960s .

life and career

Doris Wegener grew up in modest circumstances in the Berlin district of Wedding ( Berlin-Gesundbrunnen ) in an eight-person household. After graduating from elementary school , she worked as a solderer at AEG . The amateur singer was discovered in the early 1960s during a performance in the "Ufer-Eck", a pub in Wedding (where she sang for 15 DM an hour) by the music manager Peter Meisel , who in 1964 became one of the founding fathers together with the composer Christian Bruhn owned by Hansa Musik Produktion . Meisel took on two titles with his new discovery: Tomorrow will be my wedding and three white roses . However, these recordings were never released on a phonogram. Soon afterwards she won an Ariola competition for young talent , where her first record was released: Hula-Serenade / Candy (music by Christian Bruhn, text by Georg Buschor ). However, only 6000 of these were sold. She had more success at Polydor as the lead singer of the first German girls' band Tahiti Tamoures, produced by Peter Meisel (including Charlotte Marian and Monika Grimm ) with Wini-Wini in 1963.

Both producer and artist aspired to a solo career and switched to Teldec . It was only the Bossa Nova , the German version of Blame It on the Bossa Nova by Eydie Gormé , who had a number one hit in 1963 , which marked the start of a career with around 20 million records sold.

The singer reported about her career on the cover of her first LP Manuela! :

“I was not yet 18 years old when I got together with a few friends in Berlin's Wedding and ' skiffed ' with them . During the day I soldered radio capacitors behind the workbench in a Berlin electrical factory, but in the evenings I sang Schlager from a hobby. Teldec soon discovered me; it was at a dance evening. I was allowed to sing about my first record - and it was a really nice success ... Until late at night I often rehearsed with my band, the 'Six Dops', really nice Berlin boys. "

It was only the bossa nova that was to blame for Manuela's voice, which was so perfectly based on Connie Francis and her American accent, to relegate her great role model to third place (on the BRAVO charts).

The text lines "But the next day asked the mom, 'Son, why have you been until today' there tomorrow? '" Meant that the record on the index of the Bavarian Radio has been set.

Manuela (1971)

Her big single hit was followed immediately by an LP entitled Manuela! . The young singer dared to hit hits by great artists like A ship will come , play again for me, Habanero , Diana , Ave Maria no morro or Vaya con Dios .

Manuela created a new trend with her singing style:

“ She was the first in the 1960s to cheat the popular foreign competition and sing cheekily in broken German. With her, 'caught' became 'caught' and 'big city', 'big city', what was 'over' with Manuela was 'before-bye' and not 'long' but 'long' 'her. Was it rape for language aesthetes - the audience thought it was dead chic. "

TV shows and her first film Im singing Rößl am Königssee with Waltraud Haas , Trude Herr and Peter Hinnen were soon added. In addition, she took dance, acting, singing (according to the insert to the CD Manuela the best the original hits , Telefunken 1999, you can read that Manuela supposedly wanted to train as an operetta singer, but soon gave up the project) and guitar lessons. In 1971 the singer was in the comedy Twenty Girls and the Pauker: Today the penne is on the big screen a second time.

At the beginning of March 1965 she appeared in Leipzig for television in the GDR , which was still very unusual for West German artists at the time. In 1966 Manuela, who in the meantime appeared with her own bands - (initially) 6 Dops, then 5 Dops , and Fleets (later replaced by The Blizzards Four ) - and produced other hits, received the Golden Bravo Otto together with Drafi Deutscher . Two million Bravo readers took part in the election, an absolute record at the time. The award was presented to the two teenage idols as part of the then successful television show (the twelfth) The Golden Shot - with Lou van Burg as presenter.

The artist had several top ten hits in Germany, was successful in the Netherlands and some countries in South America, made two tours through what was then Czechoslovakia, and was also - according to the information on the cover of her LP Rund um die Welt  - in Italy , England and Spain in front of the microphone and appeared under her real name as a lyricist and composer of some of her hits (for example, in love with Amsterdam or - in later years - longing for home ). Her recordings for the East German label AMIGA were a novelty : 1965 Kisses under the rainbow and 1972 I fell in love with you .

On March 14, 1968, the first star parade was broadcast on ZDF . Rainer Holbe , who led the show, was supported by Manuela as co-host. The artist made several appearances in the Star Parade. For example on March 22, 1973. On the show she sang, danced and tapped to melodies from the musical No, No, Nanette . Starting in April 1968, Manuela was on a tour that would take her to New York, Las Vegas, Japan and Australia. In May she toured the United States to familiarize herself with the show business scene and to organize appearances on television. After her return in June she was awarded a gold record by Teldec-Telefunken for four million records sold. Towards the end of the year, one of her most lasting successes hit the market with Guantanamera , she also recorded in English in London and traveled to the USA again.

At the height of her career, Manuela designed fashion. She sold these through her star boutique Manuela GmbH , which at the time was offered in all stores of the large department store groups under the motto young, sporty, comfortable and chic - and all with music . The covers of their records became advertising spaces for their mini dresses , trouser suits and hot pants .

In the early 1970s, the singer, having just returned from a tour of America, had "crashed with German television". The BZ reported on this at the end of February 1970:

“She, the only German singer after Caterina Valente to gain a foothold on American television, is not 'good enough' for TV boss Hans-Otto Grünefeldt from the 1st program to win Germany at the 15th Eurovision Grand Prix de la Chanson 1970 on March 21st in Amsterdam. Although her record company nominated her, Grünefeldt and his selection committee did not accept Manuela. "

But Manuela and her record company Telefunken-Decca “took revenge” when the scorned recorded the German version of the winning title by Dana , All Kinds of Everything . The version titled Everything and Much More reached number 26 in the German charts and on May 30, 1970 Manuela was also number 1 on the ZDF hit parade , making her the first performer to do so.

At the world premiere of what was then a sensational audio and visual record , which AEG presented together with Telefunken and Teldec in Berlin in mid-1970, a recording by Manuela with Alles und much more was used as an introduction. The singer was the first artist with whom the technical achievement was tried. To play the audio and visual record you needed a special record player that could be connected to the antenna socket of any television set.

At the end of 1972 Manuela moved from Teldec to the BASF record label - for the highest sum that a pop singer ever received in the Federal Republic of Germany at the time - over 1.3 million DM. But the new producer team around Werner Twardy, who also produced Roy Black, succeeded no more hit for Manuela. In addition, there was the crisis surrounding Manuela's bribery report against ZDF (see below). Manuela was hit with a media boycott, record sales sank dramatically, she used to sell an average of 100,000 to 300,000 records per title, now it was only 20,000 to 40,000 copies - which, however, was already considered a success. Manuela changed the record company several times without being able to build on the previous success: Hansa Records , Jupiter Records , Koch Records , Zett Records , Tyrolis Records .

When it became quieter in Germany for Manuela, she tried her musical luck in the USA. Her career there is interpreted very differently. While on the one hand the fans of the artist speak of a great success, after all, she appeared several times on the Joey Bishop show , she also had over 50 shows of her own in the Hotel Dunes in Las Vegas and appeared in some television shows, on the other hand it is reported that her Ultimately, a successful career failed, the alleged climax of which, as the radio and television illustrator Hörzu noted, consisted solely in “[…] that Manuela Nancy Sinatra was introduced and attended a party by Perry Como with many others ”.

In 1976 the pop singer claimed that an editor of the ZDF hit parade had demanded a total of 20,000 DM bribes for appearances in the star parade and hit parade. When the last bribe was handed over to the ZDF editor in the men's toilet in Essen's Gruga-Halle, the singer only gave an Allgäu round cheese instead of the required 5000 DM - Manuela lived on a Berghof in the Allgäu at that time. Manuela has now been sued for defamation. It won in the 1st instance and finally lost in the 2nd instance the long drawn-out process and the broadcasters boycotted it, above all ZDF. The tabloid press, from which the artist profited a lot until her career collapsed, had now literally written it down. The "reconciliation" with ZDF was carried out by Bernd Schadewald .

In 1992 Manuela got the small role of the mother of a teenager in the ZDF film Guilt Was Only Bossa Nova , among other things. with Jürgen Vogel and Muriel Baumeister in the leading roles. A small town in the Ruhr area in the early 1960s served as the backdrop for the action .

In 1980 the artist founded her own record label: "Manuela Sound Music Production". Her LPs Manuela - The golden Hits , Manuela 80 , Manuela a musical portrait and Manuela sings Manuela were released here . The original German recording of the ABBA hit Happy Hawaii was published on this label in 1980 by Manuela and in 1988 by Hans Freistadt At 17, life only begins / The new Federal Chancellor .

In the mid-1980s she had two notable successes again after a long time with On the steps to the Acropolis and Rhodes at night . It didn’t make it into the single charts, but into the hit parades. For a long time she took top places with these two hits in the German Schlagerparade of NDR 2. In 1991 and 1992 she received the Golden Tuning Fork , an event from 1981 to 2007 for her hits Schuld was only the Bossa Nova and swimming is learned in the lake Dieter-Thomas Heck and ZDF. With the 1992 produced CD Jive Manuela - The Original Schlager-Tanz-Party , which also includes her first recording The Hula-Serenade , she was able to place herself in the charts. But Manuela was unable to build on her earlier successes with later recordings such as When I only feel the ground again , although she still received several awards and was a celebrated star guest at several oldie parties.

Manuela's manager Werner Fey († 1993) deprived her of her assets through mismanagement. As a result, the singer had to "dance about company, folk and oldie festivals" "to stay afloat".

In 1999 and 2000 (Part 2) Telefunken released a CD "The Best - The Original Hits 1963 - 1972" , on which most of the hits by Manuela are presented.

Manuela's grave in the Martin-Luther-Kirchhof, Barnabasstrasse 5-19 in Berlin-Tegel

Manuela - Doris Inge Wegener - died on February 13, 2001, after living in seclusion in Linne in the Netherlands and in the small Belgian town of Welkenraedt for a year, at the age of 57 in Berlin from oral cancer . She is buried in the grave of her brother Klaus Dittmer's family in the Martin Luther Cemetery, Barnabasstrasse 5–19 in Berlin-Tegel .

After Manuela's death

Memorial plaque on the house at Thurneysserstraße 3 in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen

On the spa promenade of Grömitz (Baltic Sea), memorial stones are inserted into the pavement similar to the Hollywood Walk of Fame . On August 22, 2003, a brass plaque was installed there in honor of Manuela.

In 2005, Bernd Schadewald made a documentary about the singer's life, which also addressed the allegations of bribery against ZDF.

In August 2007 a memorial plaque was unveiled at the birthplace of the former teenage idol at Thurneysserstraße 3 in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen. At the same time, Christian Bruhn published the CD Manuela - memories (by its composer) under the pseudonym Chris Brown .

The House of History in Bonn presented Manuela in the exhibition Melodies for Millions. The Century of Hit (May 9, 2008 to October 12, 2008 in Bonn; November 20, 2008 to March 2009 in Leipzig) extensive as one of the top stars of the 1960s.

The hit Monsieur Dupont was added to the list of 100 hits of the century in 2008.

The pop fairy tale From Wedding to Las Vegas - The Manuela Story , with Camilla Kallfaß in the lead role, premiered on October 2nd, 2008 in the “Small Theater” on Berlin's Südwestkorso . The musical work reports on decisive moments from Manuela's life in highlight-like scenes, accompanied by numerous of her hits. The press wrote:

“ Now the director Norman Zechowski has created a brightly colored memorial to the nation's first girlie with his pop fairy tale… Time and again, the staging with a winking charm is a hair-cut past the trash and shows that showbiz is often enough nothing more than paper mache. "

In 2008 came the CD when eyes speak. Memories of an unforgettable singer , with three previously unreleased songs on the market. The double CD Manuela Special Edition , published in English in 2010, also contains three previously unreleased songs . Three more CDs followed with mostly unreleased titles.

In 2015 Joachim Kuhrig published a biographical novel about the pop singer and composer: Manuela - The girl with the tear in her voice and in 2019 the novel-like documentary: Zahl Dich Frei - Manuela.

Awards and honors (selection)

Manuela was voted the most popular singer eight times in a row by Bravo readers and graced the Bravo title page eleven times .

• Bronze Lion (1964), Special Prize “Golden Bonny” (1964) and Silver Lion (1968) from Radio Luxemburg
• Coupe d'or, Italy (1965, 1966 and 1967)
• Bravo Otto four times in gold (1966, 1969, 1970 and 1971) and four times in silver (1965, 1967, 1968 and 1972)
• Gold Record (1968)
• Golden Tuning Fork (1991 and 1992)

In 2011 a street in Berlin-Kladow , the Manuelaweg, was named after her.

Movies

• 1963: In the singing Rößl at the Königssee
• 1971: Twenty girls and the timpanists: Today the penne is upside down
• 1992: It was only the bossa nova to blame (TV movie)

Discography (selection)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Manuela and Drafi (Manuela and the 5 Dops / Drafi Deutscher And His Magics)   DE 11 06/15/1966 (4 weeks) Around the world   DE 36 02/15/1968 (2 weeks)

Singles

It was only the bossa nova to blame   DE 1  gold 04/01/1963 (30 weeks) I am still going to school   DE 4th  gold 09/01/1963 (22 weeks) Listen what's coming in from outside (mom)   DE 13 02/01/1964 (13 weeks) You can learn to swim in the lake (with the 5 Dops)   DE 3 06/01/1964 (17 weeks) Snowman (with the 5 dops)   DE 13 December 01, 1964 (16 weeks)   AT 10 02/15/1965 (4 weeks) Kisses under the rainbow (with the 5 dops)   DE 7th 05/15/1965 (16 weeks)   AT 9 07/15/1965 (4 weeks) Love and Kisses (with the 5 Dops)   DE 17th 11/01/1965 (15 weeks) It makes you cry (with the 5 dops)   DE 9 04/01/1966 (13 weeks) The golden age (with Drafi Deutscher )   DE 32 07/15/1966 (7 weeks) Stupid ones never die out   DE 23 October 15, 1966 (11 weeks) Lord Leicester from Manchester   DE 12th 05/01/1967 (10 weeks) Monsieur Dupont   DE 9 09/01/1967 (15 weeks)   AT 20th 11/15/1967 (4 weeks) When night falls in Harlem ( When a Man Loves a Woman )   DE 16 01/01/1968 (10 weeks)   AT 8th 02/15/1968 (8 weeks) The house from Huckleberry Hill   DE 29 04/15/1968 (4 weeks) Palpitations   DE 23 07/01/1968 (6 weeks) Guantanamera   DE 15th 11/01/1968 (11 weeks) Bobby (a small dog with brown eyes)   DE 17th 06/15/1969 (5 weeks) US Navy 66 helicopter   DE 27 11/01/1969 (7 weeks) When you love   DE 29 02/15/1970 (4 weeks) Everything and much more   DE 26th 05/15/1970 (9 weeks) ABC   DE 35 December 01, 1970 (3 weeks) The Black Man on the Roof (Jack in the Box)   DE 30th 05/17/1971 (5 weeks) Cheers, Uncle Albert!   DE 21st November 15, 1971 (14 weeks) Long live the birthday boy   DE 32 May 29, 1972 (7 weeks) What did you do?   DE 50 02/19/1973 (1 week) Jive Manuela   DE 75 09/07/1992 (1 week)

Albums (LP / CD)

• 1963 Manuela!
• 1965 The great successes
• 1966 Manuela & Drafi
• 1968 around the world
• 1968 Manuela - Manuela - Manuela (USA)
• 1968 star boutique Manuela. The great successes 2
• 1968 The great successes 3
• 1969 Christmas as we love it (including with the Schöneberg Boys' Choir)
• 1970 The great successes. Made in Germany & USA
• 1970 Songs from Fairy Tale Land (with the Schöneberg Boys' Choir )
• 1971 Songs of Love - Manuela in USA
• 1972 If you are with me in my dreams
• 1972 portrait in music
• 1973 Manuela in Las Vegas
• 1973 Love has a thousand names
• 1973 I've never been so happy
• 1980 I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweethart
• 1980 Manuela - The golden hits
• 1980 Manuela sings Manuela
• 1980 Manuela a musical portrait
• 1980 Manuela 80
• 1984 I'm back
• 1988 Golden Hits - the anniversary album
• 1988 A nice day with a lot of music
• 1988 Olé Mallorca and 14 golden hits
• 1989 Manuela - your greatest successes
• 1991 Longing for home
• 1992 Jive Manuela - The Original Schlager Dance Party
• 1993 when I feel the ground again
• 1993 St. Vincent
• 1994 The greatest successes - new additions
• 1995 ... for peace - against war
• 1996 Where is the man
• 1997 Only Bossa Nova (Sonia) was to blame
• 1999 Manuela - The Best - The Original Hits 1963–1972
• 2000 Manuela - The Best - The Original Hits 1962–1978 - Episode 2

After her death

• 2001 Hey Look at Me Now
• 2001 I can never forget you
• 2001 Golden Stars - The Best of Manuela
• 2001 was only to blame the Bossa Nova (3 CDs with Manuela's greatest successes)
• 2003 Everything and much more ...
• 2003 was only to blame the bossa nova
• 2003 Portrait Manuela (Gold Series)
• 2004 The best of Manuela
• 2005 Manuela. Love has a thousand names
• 2007 Manuela memories (her composer) Chris Brown (Christian Bruhn)
• 2008 When eyes speak
• 2010 Manuela Special Edition
• 2011 Do you remember?
• 2011 Guilt was only the Bossa Nova (double CD)
• 2011 was only to blame the bossa nova
• 2012 Manuela Special Edition Vol. 2
• 2014 It's never too late

Singles / EPs

• 1962 hula serenade
• 1963 The bossa nova was to blame (cover version of: Blame It on the Bossa nova by Eydie Gormé )
• 1963 I'm still going to school (cover version of: On Top of Old Smokey )
• 1963 Mama, I'll tell you something
• 1963 Hey, Manuela EP
• 1964 Mama (EP Spain)
• 1964 You learn to swim in a lake (cover version of: Just So Bobby Can See by Diane Ray )
• 1964 Listen, what's coming in from outside (also sung in English: There Goes Charly )
• 1964 snowman
• 1964 Manuela (Spain)
• 1964 You learn to swim in a lake (EP)
• 1965 kisses under the rainbow
• 1965 Love and Kisses
• 1965 The Nitty Gritty
• 1966 Things Are So Different (Brazil)
• 1966 It makes you cry
• 1966 Stupid never die out
• 1966 Spotlight on Manuela (Netherlands)
• 1966 The golden age (with Drafi Deutscher )
• 1967 Lord Leicester from Manchester
• 1967 Monsieur Dupont
• 1967 When night falls in Harlem (cover version of: When a Man Loves a Woman by Percy Sledge )
• 1968 The House of Huckleberry Hill / Tomorrow Comes the Day (cover version of: Warm And Tender Love by Percy Sledge )
• 1968 Palpitations / Mademoiselle Angelique
• 1968 Guantanamera
• 1968 Silent Night, Holy Night
• 1968 Que-Sera
• 1968 Senor Gonzales
• 1968 Bobby / Adios, Adios Paloma
• 1969 If you love / Jingle Jangle (cover version of the same name)
• 1969 US Navy 66 helicopter
• 1970 Everything and Much More (cover version of: All Kinds of Everything by Dana )
• 1970 ABC
• 1970 In love with Amsterdam
• 1970 Daddy (cover version of: Grandad by Clive Dunn )
• 1970 It takes a lot of tenderness
• 1971 Monky Monkey (USA)
• 1971 I Hear Those Church Bells Ringing
• 1971 The Black Man on the Roof (Cover version of: Jack in the Box by Clodagh Rodgers )
• 1971 Cheers, Uncle Albert
• 1972 Long live the birthday child
• 1972 I fell in love with you
• 1972 guitar boy
• 1973 Something in me became sad (cover version of: Killing Me Softly with His Song by Lori Lieberman or Roberta Flack )
• 1973 The foxes say good night to each other
• 1973 come back
• 1973 What did you do
• 1973 I've never been so happy
• 1973 Hey Look at Me Now
• 1973 You Are My Music (USA)
• 1974 Stolen oranges
• 1974 I would like to hear your heart beating
• 1974 Twingel Dingel Dee
• 1974 Boing, Boing love
• 1975 What did you do
• 1975 Chubu-hama kimono
• 1975 A beautiful day with a lot of music
• 1975 I would like to hear your heart beating
• 1980 But my heart always stays in Athens
• 1980 I Believe in the USA
• 1980 You Are My Sunshine
• 1980 What should a Bavarian in the charts (with Sepp Haslinger )
• 1980 Happy Hawaii
• 1980 peace on earth
• 1981 It's Hard to Explain
• 1984 And the wind
• 1984 Second Wind
• 1985 Rhodes by night
• 1986 On the steps to the Acropolis
• 1987 Eternal fire
• 1988 Oh, mandolino
• 1990 homeland
• 1990 Forever (cover version of: You Got It by Roy Orbison )
• 1990 When a Man Loves a Woman
• 1991 peace on earth
• 1991 freedom without luck ( Manuela and Cantus )
• 1992 Jive Manuela

literature

• Elmar Kraushaar: Conjectures about Manuela . In: Elmar Kraushaar: Red lips. The whole world of German hits. Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1983, pp. 137–150, ISBN 3-499-15087-5 .
• Thommi Herrwerth: Parties, Pop and Petting. The sixties in the mirror of BRAVO. Jonas, Marburg 1997 ISBN 3-89445-219-6 .
• Teddy Hoersch (Ed.): BRAVO 1956-2006. Heyne, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-89910-307-6 .
• Peter Rentzsch, Dieter Behlinda: Once to the stars and back. The book of truth. Freier Falke Verlag, Lehrte 2008, pp. 203-211, 283f, ISBN 978-3-981085-98-3 .
• Joachim Kuhrig: Manuela - The girl with the tear in her voice, biographical novel, Verlag Twentysix 2015, 348 pages, ISBN 9783740707903
• Joachim Kuhrig: Pay Dich Frei - Manuela, novel-like documentation, Verlag Twentysix 2019, 120 pages, ISBN 9783740753504

Web links

Commons : Manuela  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Works by and about Manuela in the catalog of the German National Library
• Manuela in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Elisabeth Binder: Manuela: Only bossa nova was cult , Der Tagesspiegel , February 14, 2001.
• Doris Wegener ( Memento from May 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), the portal for folk music and hits.
• Manuela . Michas-Schlagerbox, November 1st, 2013
• Manuela - A life for music . manuela-music.eu, March 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ swr.de
2. ↑ Tahiti Tamoures. Retrieved February 11, 2021 . 
3. ↑ Heerwerth 1997, p. 37
4. ↑ Documentation on swr.de
5. ^ Billboard (magazine) , Jimmy Jungermann (Munich), February 27, 1965, p. 20
6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHA8G0tFmYs
7. ^ Billboard, Ursula Schuegraf (Munich), March 30, 1968, p. 57; Wolfgang Spahr (Berlin), May 4, 1968, p. 52.
8. ^ Billboard, Wolfgang Spahr (Berlin), October 12, 1968, p. 70.
9. ^ Elmar Kraushaar: Red lips. The whole world of German hits. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-499-15087-5 , p. 142 .
10. ↑ ZDF hit parade No. 13 (radio version). Retrieved February 11, 2021 . 
11. ^ Video Recorder Makes World Bow , Billboard, July 11, 1970, p. 71.
12. ^ Elmar Kraushaar: Red lips. The whole world of German hits. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-499-15087-5 , p. 144 .
13. ^ Elmar Kraushaar: Red lips. The whole world of German hits. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-499-15087-5 , p. 146 ff .
14. ↑ manuela-music.eu (bottom of the page)
15. ↑ Miscellaneous , manuela-music.eu (as of October 30, 2013).
16. ↑ Hoersch 2006, p. 260
17. ↑ "The Best - The Original Hits 1963 - 1972"
18. ↑ The Manuela Story - Everything and much more in the lexicon of international films
19. ↑ Ingo Grabowsky, Martin Lücke: The 100 hits of the century. Hamburg 2008, ISBN 3-434-50619-5 .
20. ↑ Kleines Theater Berlin ( Memento from October 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
21. ↑ A memorial to the nation's first girlie . In: Berliner Morgenpost
22. ↑ Kladow honors Manuela with its own street. Retrieved February 11, 2021 . 
23. ^ ^{A b} Günter Ehnert: Hit balance sheet - German chart singles 1956-1980 . 1st edition. Verlag popular music-literature, Norderstedt 2000, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 , p. 445 .
24. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT