Marlène Charell

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Marlène Charell at the 1987 Chancellor Festival in Bonn

Marlène Charell (born July 27, 1944 in Winsen (Luhe) ; actually Angela Miebs ) is a German dancer , singer and presenter . She became internationally known in the 1960s and 1970s through appearances in revues and shows as well as her own television programs.

Life

Angela Miebs grew up in Hamburg as the daughter of a native Silesian . As a six-year-old girl, she and her father performed in the circus with the acrobatics number Angela and Corinn . She later trained in acrobatics , ballet , dance, gymnastics , singing and acting .

Since there was less and less revue theater in Germany , she went to Paris with her parents , where after an audition with the then director Michel Gyarmathy in 1962 she got an engagement at the famous Cabaret Folies Bergère .

He chose her stage name Marlène based on Marlene Dietrich's legs; Angela Miebs' father thought director Erik Charell's last name would go well with it.

From 1966 she performed for over a year at the Dunes in Las Vegas in the Casino de Paris show . Variety magazine named her Miss Longlegs because of her legs . Back in Paris in 1968, after the May riots , she moved from the Folies Bergère as a solo artist (leading lady) to the leading cabaret Lido de Paris . There she met her future husband Roger Pappini, who was the technical director of the Lido at the time, but then gave up his own professional activity and became her manager. Marlène Charell and Roger Pappini married in December 1971; In 1973 their daughter Angelina was born, who is now married and has a daughter herself.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Marlène Charell was successful as a versatile entertainer worldwide. She presented her own Marlène Charell show at Casino Ruhl in Nice , appeared in England together with Engelbert Humperdinck in a multi-part co-production by BBC and ZDF and made guest appearances in Canada , Japan , Austria and Switzerland , among others . With the title Queen of German TV (her show staged by Truck Branss and broadcast on ZDF in 1970 was called The World Belongs to Women ), she also came to her own show in Italy via Gino Bramieri . She was also a regular guest in classics of German television entertainment, for example in Dalli Dalli and Amlauf Band . Occasionally she also appeared in movies such as Heaven, Sheikh and Cloudbreak (1979). During this time she also appeared in numerous international TV shows, for example, in 1980 in East German television in a boiler Colorful and on West German television in the New Year shows of 1979 and the 1980th

In 1983 Marlène Charell moderated the Eurovision Song Contest in Munich , where she was able to showcase her multilingualism ( German , French , English and Italian ). In the 1990s, roles in television productions such as Das Traumschiff , Tanz auf dem Vulkan or Koerber's nudes were added. In addition, she continued to be seen in entertainment programs, such as in 1995, where she was a guest on the cooking show alfredissimo! was. She was also a star guest as a singer and dancer in major television shows such as Music is in the Air in 1995 .

Since 2000, Marlène Charell has been involved mainly in charities ( SOS Children's Villages ), but continues to work as an entertainer and artist. She is also the patron of the Columbus Club of the cruise operator Transocean Tours . In addition, there are engagements as a presenter, for example at the Swissartist Music Festival 2006 and 2007 near Zurich or for the series of events Fireworks of Folk Music , as well as occasional guest appearances in television programs such as in 2008 in the cooking program The Perfect Celebrity Dinner or in October 2011 in Lafer! Lights! Delicious! She was also a frequent guest on talk shows, such as in 2007 on the ZDF morning program Volle Kanne and in 2009 on the NDR talk show .

On the occasion of its appearance in the Mother's Day edition of the television show Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel on April 13, 2007, a cultivated rose variety newly bred in 2007 was presented and named after it Marlène-Charell-Rose .

She had her last TV appearance so far on December 23, 2013 in the show Christmas with us , where she presented a medley of internationally successful titles with the German TV Ballet . Marlène Charell lives in La Rochette, France, in Savoy .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marlène Charell , munzinger.de
  2. ↑ a b Grand Prix face 1983: Marlène Charell , Mittelbayerische.de , May 10, 2011
  3. ↑ 1973 daughter Angelina is born , marlene-charell.de, accessed on October 24, 2019
  4. ^ The Charell worries , Abendzeitung , April 5, 2013
  5. ↑ A great festival for all mothers. That was "Welcome to Carmen Nebel" from Erfurt ( Memento from June 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (content from zdf.de; only accessible without JavaScript)
  6. ↑ The best from Adlershof entertainment shows "Ein Kessel Buntes" with Marlène Charell and the Saragossa Band , mdr.de, July 5, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Charell, Marlène
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miebs, Angela (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer, dancer and presenter
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Winsen (Luhe)