Melitta Sundström

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Melitta Sundström sings at the BeV StroganoV fashion show in front of Café Swing on Nollendorfplatz, Berlin 1987

Melitta Sundström (born October 31, 1963 , † September 8, 1993 in Berlin ; actually Thomas Gerards , another pseudonym also Hanne Fisch) was a German entertainer.

Life

Melitta Sundström privately at rehearsals in the Waldschlößchen for the play "Beauty" in 1987

Thomas Gerards came from Bad Kreuznach and made a name for himself in Berlin as a soul singer and tune . Together with Melitta Poppe, Chou-Chou de Briquette and BeV StroganoV , he appeared as Melitta Sundström in Berlin's trendy venues, for example in SchwuZ , Café Graefe and in the theater group Ladies Neid.

In the Berlin gay magazine Siegessäule he wrote for several years under the pseudonym Hanne Fisch for various rubrics. From 1990 onwards he made a name for himself as Sundström with his solo programs Mein Kampf - a female actress' convulsions and A life in a lying position (including BKA-Theater, Berlin and Schmidt-Theater HH). He often referred to himself as a "soul queen". Exceptionally, he played the male lead in the play "Die Schönheit" by Ronald M. Schernikau (SchwuZ, Berlin 1987).

Gerards was infected with HIV and repeatedly addressed this in his performances and songs as Melitta Sundström. Only a few days before his death he was able to present his CD Sundström . On September 8, 1993, Thomas Gerards succumbed to the consequences of the immune deficiency disease AIDS . He is buried in Meisenheim (Glan) in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Publications

  • 1988 - Melitta Sundström , EP
  • 1993 - Sundström , CD

Filmography

Commemoration

Melitta Sundström / Thomas Gerards Grab 2014

In March 2013, the SPD parliamentary group in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district introduced a motion to the district assembly that the green space on the corner of Eisenacher Strasse and Fuggerstrasse in Melitta-Sundström-Platz should be named after. In October 2016, the application was discussed in the culture committee. The SPD parliamentary group withdrew the motion, however, as they feared not getting a majority in favor. In the course of a motion by the Green parliamentary group in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district assembly to rename several streets named after Prussian generals, Werner Heck, who had submitted the motion, proposed a "Melitta Sundström Boulevard" in 2019.

The name of the Melitta Sundström café at Mehringdamm 61 in Berlin-Kreuzberg is reminiscent of the artist.

The Berlin Order of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence bears the house name "Archmother House Sankta Melitta Iuvenis" (Melitta the Younger compared to Melitta Poppe) in honor of Gerhards .

Web links

Commons : Melitta Sundström  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Axel Schock : An icon returns. Retrieved March 2, 2019 (d).
  2. ↑ SPD parliamentary group Tempelhof-Schöneberg: naming a place after Melitta Sundström - SPD parliamentary group Tempelhof-Schöneberg. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ No space for Melitta Sundström: SPD withdraws application. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .
  4. ^ Antje Lang-Lendorff: Renaming streets in Berlin: What Kreuzberg is up to . In: The daily newspaper: taz . March 19, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on March 29, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Sundström, Melitta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerards, Thomas (real name); Fisch, Hanne (another pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entertainer
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1963
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1993
Place of death Berlin