Renée Franke

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Renée Franke, 1961
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Ding Dong Boogie
  DE 2 04/01/1954 (8 weeks)
Put your hand in my hand (with Detlef Lais)
  DE 19th 05/01/1954 (12 weeks)
Sailors boogie
  DE 20th 07/01/1954 (4 weeks)
The girls in Normandy
  DE 23 11/01/1955 (8 weeks)

Renée Franke (born May 4, 1928 in Hamburg as Gisela Beyer ; † November 9, 2011 in Munich ) was a German pop singer who was particularly successful in the 1950s.

life and career

Gisela Beyer first worked as a telephone operator in the Hamburg remote office, later as a supervisor for the telephone switchboard of the British military government . She took part in the audition in the studio of the British military network British Forces Network (BFN). Benny de Weille then brokered her a record deal with Polydor and Gisela Beyer took on the stage name "Renée Franke".

The song " C'est si bon " dates from 1950 , presented by Renée Franke and Cyprys (music / text: Beth / Siegel / de Weille). The artist sang in a duo with Heinz Erhardt and in particular Detlev Lais , whose song A White Wedding Carriage (1952) was a great success. A novelty was her ad for the soap Luxor . Her life was filmed in 1954 with the film Das Fräulein vom Amt (with Bully Buhlan , Renate Holm and Georg Thomalla ). In some films she appeared as a singer and lent Gardy Granass and Johanna Matz her singing voice. On February 25, 1961 she took part under the motto Die Schlagerparade in the German preliminary decision for the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson with the song Napolitano . Then it became quiet in the media about the pop singer.

In 1962 she received an offer from NDR for the daily program Hallo Nachbarn , where she was assigned the role of "singing topicality". She remained loyal to this controversial program for four years. During this time she often went on tours that took her all over Germany. After appearances in the Zwickauer Groß-Varieté Lindenhof , her interest in amateur radio was aroused in 1960 . She passed the exam for an amateur radio license and was then active on shortwave under the amateur radio call sign DJ6RF . As a star guest of the DARC , she took part in the 1961 international radio exhibition in Berlin. In 1965 she hosted a television program on amateur radio. In the second half of the 1960s, she gave back her amateur radio license. Your former callsign has now been reassigned.

In the mid-1960s, Bayerischer Rundfunk became aware of her and she followed the station's call to Munich as a radio presenter. After her first and only carnival show in 1966, she presented her own program Rendezvous at midnight on this station until 1993 and alternated with other presenters on Bayern 1 u. a. the programs in good mood , radio post on Saturday and stars without borders . In total, she moderated around 1400 programs for Bavarian Radio. Renée Franke, who lived in Munich until her death, was part of the most well-known team of Bavarian broadcasters in Germany in the 1960s, along with Elfie Pertramer , Marianne Koch and Petra Schürmann .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE
  2. ^ Obituary: Renée Franke died at the age of 83
  3. ↑ a b Funk-Telegram 4/2007, p. 33: How Renée Franke (DJ6RF) got into amateur radio (PDF; 968 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Franke, Renée
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beyer, Gisela (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop singer and radio presenter
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 2011
Place of death Munich