Petra Pascal

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Petra Pascal (born December 21, 1934 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German chanson singer and presenter.

Life

After finishing high school, Petra Pascal worked as a social insurance clerk at the State Insurance Institute of Hesse (now Deutsche Rentenversicherung Hessen). Then she studied singing for 6 years and took music and ballet lessons . She took part in 5 international festivals and in the 1960s, initially under the stage name Mariett Sora, released a number of single records, including "Wenn Du geht, mon ami" and "Ohne dich", together with Hubert Wolf .

In 1969 Pascal's first long-playing record, “Contrasts”, was released. In the early 1970s she had some commercial success with chanson-like songs that were also played in the hit parades . Her greatest successes were That Was a Life , Raskolnikoff (1969), Like the Glass in My Hand (1971), Three Steps Forward and Two Backward (1972), and I'm Not a Morning Muffle (1979). Her concept album The Paradise Is Not Yet Lost (1974) was remarkable , on which she dealt with environmental protection and pollution and its consequences in 14 songs. The then Federal Minister of the Interior, Hans-Dietrich Genscher , took over the patronage of the work , who also wrote the foreword on the back of the LP.

Petra Pascal has been working primarily as a radio presenter and author since the 1980s . Her programs included: composer and artist portraits on HR 4, the ARD night express on HR and from 1991 on WDR 4 the programs "Café Carlton", which was discontinued at the end of 2006 due to a program reform, and the "Schellack-Schätze" which she designed several times a year until the beginning of 2012.

Awards

  • Golden Europe 1969
  • Honorary Award of the Federal Ministry of the Interior for Environmental Protection LP 1974
  • Environment Medal from the Bavarian State Ministry 1974

Success title

  • Three steps forward and two backward in 1972
  • I'm a morning grouch 1979
  • Raskolnikoff 1969
  • So was Ivan in 1970
  • Like the glass in my hand in 1971
  • How beautiful my village was in 1979
  • At seven in the morning the world is still fine 1974
  • Granted 1979

Discography

Petra Pascal released 12 albums , 4 CDs and 20 singles in her career , including:

Singles

  • 1965: If you go, mon ami / Without you

Studio albums

  • 1969: contrasts
  • 1970: Petra Pascal
  • 1971: When the evening wind blows through the taiga
  • 1971: Like the glass in my hand
  • 1972: I am a woman
  • 1974: Paradise is not yet lost
  • 1975: The Two Sides of Michael "M"
  • 1979: Granted
  • 1985: The chess game of our lives

Compilations

  • 1973: Meeting point for the stars
  • 1974: Portrait of a star
  • 1993: The great successes
  • 2004: Like the glass in my hand - contrasts (Leico music)
  • 2008: I am a woman - Contrasts II (Leico music)
  • 2009: Being happy is not a risk - Contrasts III (Leico music)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petra Pascal - Paradise Is Not Lost Yet. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Hanns-Georg Rodek: Commentary: Ausgesagt, Schätze! In: THE WORLD . January 2, 2012 ( welt.de [accessed June 11, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Pascal, Petra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chanson singer and presenter
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main