Renate Kern

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Better to cry in happiness
  DE 37 December 15, 1968 (1 week)
Singles
Kiss and Shake
  DE 35 06/05/1965 (4 weeks)
You are my Love
  DE 39 December 04, 1965 (2 weeks)
Until tomorrow
  DE 35 06/04/1966 (6 weeks)
Leave the stupid grief
  DE 33 November 19, 1966 (4 weeks)
Any day
  DE 35 06/03/1967 (3 weeks)
Better to cry in happiness
  DE 10 08/17/1968 (19 weeks)
You have to flink your eyelashes
  DE 30th December 14, 1968 (5 weeks)
Leave the sunshine
  DE 18th 05/03/1969 (4 weeks)
Better kissed today
  DE 30th 09/06/1969 (6 weeks)
All flowers need sun
  DE 27 07/04/1970 (6 weeks)
He took another girl
  DE 37 08/23/1971 (1 week)
You'll be laughing again tomorrow morning
  DE 40 07/24/1972 (2 weeks)
When you go
  DE 45 01/21/1974 (3 weeks)

Renate Kern (born January 23, 1945 in Tann / Rhön ; † February 18, 1991 in Hoyerswege / Ganderkesee , Lower Saxony ), real name Renate Hildebrandt, geb. Poggensee , was a German hit and country singer. She also appeared under the stage names Nancy Wood and Nathalie de Navarre .

Career

Renate Kern was the daughter of rocket technician Karl Poggensee (1909–1980). The connections to radio and television established during a school exchange in the USA in 1962 prompted Renate Kern to give up her original career aspiration - teacher. Discovered by Werner Last aka Kai Warner , James Last's brother , the singer with the deep voice quickly made a career, mostly with lyrics that encouraged people or gave advice. From 1965 to the mid-1970s she was under contract with the record company Polydor .

Her first singles appeared in 1965 and immediately hit the German charts: Kiss and Shake (35th place) and You are my love (39th place). She celebrated her biggest hit in 1968 with love to cry in happiness (10th place). You have to flink your eyelashes (1968, place 30), Let the sunshine (1969, place 18), Lieber Today Kissed (1969, place 30) and All flowers need sun (1970, place 27) are also among her great successes . With All Flowers Need Sun , she was able to achieve second place at the German Schlager Competition in Mainz in 1970 .

After a few more hit parades, television appearances, and touring, her career stagnated in the early 1970s, and her star continued to decline towards the end of the decade. Their last hit listing in the German single charts dates back to 1974 ( Wenn du go ). At this point she had left the Polydor record company and signed a contract with BASF. A number of singles appeared here. In 1974 she married the sound engineer Klaus-Dieter Hildebrandt. The couple founded their own music publishing company and produced a. a. the Schlager duo Mona & Michael . Furthermore, they set up a recording studio in their common house , where u. a. Roger Whittaker recorded records. In 1976 she achieved another small hit in the radio hit lists ( Tonio , 46th place). The following year she switched to the Crystal / EMI label, but there was no comeback here either. In 1976 she sang in French under the name Nathalie de Navarre .

In 1981, Kern not only changed the genre - from hit to country - she also adopted a new international stage name: Nancy Wood . In the USA she released the song Imagine That with the small record company Montage , which was written by the well-known country songwriters Byron Hill (wrote hits for Alabama (band) , George Strait , Gary Allan ) and J. Remington Wilde ( Conway Twitty , Randy Travis ) was written. She did not achieve the big breakthrough she had hoped for, but it was a respectable success, because she was the only German singer after Tina Rainford ( Silver Bird , 1976) to make it into the American country charts (1981, place 79, four weeks). Although the interest of the Americans quickly waned afterwards, Kern remained loyal to the country genre until the end of her life: In 1983 a double LP with the title Imagine That was released in Germany . The following year, the Dutch country magazine Gazette voted her the best European country singer. At Radio Bremen she also hosted the program Nancy's Country Drive-In and gave countless concerts.

From the late 1980s, she began to suffer increasingly from depression . On February 18, 1991, she was found hanged in her home. Her final resting place is in the New Cemetery in Rostock , where her in-laws are also buried.

In 1997 the Bear Family label released two CDs with old Kern recordings. In 1998 a documentary was published that tries to trace the life and career of Kern: And in front of me the stars… . The film, framed by recordings of various appearances and interviews with the artist, fellow musicians, supporters and colleagues from show business have their say (including Dieter Thomas Heck , his wife Ragnhild Heck and Renate Kern producer Peter Orloff ). In 2003, Butterfahrt was also released, a play in which the author Margit Rogall dared to approach Renate Kern as a person. At the end of 2008 her old record company Polydor dedicated a CD to her in the series Schlagerjuwelen: Your great successes .

Discography (selection)

Albums (Renate Kern)

  • 1968: Better to cry in happiness (Polydor), CD 2016 series "Originale" (Electrola)
  • 1969: My world is beautiful (Polydor), CD 2011 series "Originale" (Koch)
  • 1973: Only who loves (Polydor), CD 2016 series "Originale", with dear to cry ... (Electrola)
  • 1974: Renate Kern ( BASF )
  • 1975: ... and outside there is always the wind (BASF)
  • 1976: year after year (BASF)

Compilations (Renate Kern)

  • 1972: Your most beautiful hits , shared LP with Bruce Low (Luxor Gold)
  • 1973: Renate Kern (carousel)
  • 1987: All flowers need sun (Polydor)
  • 1989: My Songs - My Life (Polydor)
  • 1993: Tennessee Waltz , BASF recordings (mushroom)
  • 1997: You Are My Love (Bear Family)
  • 1997: He Took Another Girl (Bear Family)
  • 2002: My Most Beautiful Songs (Vandango)
  • 2008: Your great successes - Schlager Juwelen (Polydor)

Albums (Nancy Wood)

  • 1983: Imagine That (Lovelight)
  • 1984: On the Road (only on MC; Lovelight)
  • 1985: Loneliness Is Just a Point of View (Lovelight)
  • 1990: Wild Flowers (Lovelight)
  • 1990: Lieder der Straße (MCP Records) (only in Austria in petrol station shops)

Compilations (Nancy Wood)

  • 1987: We Never Give Up, Blue Bayou uva (Polyband / Lovelight)
  • 1992: Stars & Trucks, Episode 11: Asphalt Cowboy - Nancy Wood (Carousel)
  • 2002: Best of Nancy Wood (Vandango)

Singles (Renate Kern)

  • 1965: Kiss And Shake / The world is as beautiful as a dream (Polydor)
  • 1965: You are my love / out of the question (Polydor)
  • 1965: I'll Remember Summer / Now And Then (Polydor Intern.)
  • 1965: You'll Be The First One To Know / Now And Then (Polydor Intern.)
  • 1966: A World Of Our Own / Weep No Farewell Tears (Polydor)
  • 1966: See you tomorrow / Just like you (Polydor)
  • 1966: Let the stupid grief / crying hurts so much (Polydor)
  • 1967: Some Day / You Must Tell Me The Truth (Polydor)
  • 1967: Stop the Beat / Back then in Napoli (Polydor)
  • 1968: One Sleepless Night / One Man - One Word (Polydor)
  • 1968: Better to cry when you're happy / It's not worth being sad (Polydor)
  • 1968: Milord (on the LP sampler "Eine Runde Polydor")
  • 1968: You have to flink your eyelashes / Autumn wind (Polydor)
  • 1969: Leave the sunshine / My world is beautiful (Polydor)
  • 1969: Better kissed today / loneliness (Polydor)
  • 1969: 1990 / Come On Let's Dance (Polydor)
  • 1970: Superman / Silver and Gold (Polydor)
  • 1970: All flowers need sun / The most beautiful country in the world (Polydor)
  • 1970: Why Do You Wanna Cry / Good Bye My Love (Polydor)
  • 1971: He took another girl (Me And Bobby McGee) / Love laughs for you too (Polydor)
  • 1971: Go with God / Qua La Linta (dreams are beautiful) (Polydor)
  • 1972: Tomorrow morning you'll laugh again / Rinaldo Rinaldini (Polydor)
  • 1972: That's what makes this world really beautiful / My world (Polydor)
  • 1973: Andiamo Amigo / Do it like the sundial (Polydor)
  • 1974: If you go / Please think of me (Souviens - toi de moi) (BASF)
  • 1974: Two in Verona (I tamoré) / Südwind (BASF)
  • 1974: BASF Medley Single 1974 (the LP "Renate Kern" from 1974)
  • 1975: Look forward to next summer / Johnny Mc Clyde (BASF)
  • 1975: There is no door between you and me / Balalaika (BASF)
  • 1975: Butterfly fly / What should become of me (BASF)
  • 1976: An island in the sun / advance on paradise (BASF)
  • 1976: Tonio / The Last Journey (BASF)
  • 1976: Tennessee Waltz / Lili Marleen (cook)
  • 1977: Tomorrow my train will go to another world / My world of tomorrow will be much more beautiful (Crystal)
  • 1978: Love makes us women more beautiful / Ferdinand (Crystal)
  • 1978: Come and show your teeth / Somehow it goes on (Crystal)
  • 1979: Hen party in the green wreath / I believe the wind (Crystal)
  • 1981: Oh are you beautiful ... / Oh remember (Electrola)

Single (Nathalie de Navarre)

  • 1976: Quand tu es chez moi / Tu es moi (moonlight sonata) (BASF)

Singles (Nancy Wood)

  • 1981: Imagine That / Turn Your Lovelight On (Montage Records)
  • 1982: Turn Your Lovelight On / Imagine That (Ariola)
  • 1983: Lyin 'Cheatin' Woman Chasin 'Honky Tonkin' Whiskey Drinkin 'You / Could I Borrow Your Arms For Tonight (Lovelight)
  • 1985: Loneliness Is Just A Point Of View (Medley short LP 1985; Lovelight)
  • 1985: In The Movies / Marianna (Lovelight)
  • 1986: Blue Bayou / We Never Give Up (Lovelight)
  • 1989: Wild Flowers / Long Way To Go (Lovelight)
  • 1989: King of the Night / No Guarantee (Lovelight)

literature

  • Wolfgang Miko: Singing and Suizid: Rise and Fall of a German Singer , Edition Octopus, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-86582-259-2 . In this biographical novel, the author introduces the singer's life and compares her with other fates in the hit industry, especially with Alexandra and Roy Black .
  • Margit Rogall: Butter journey. A monologue with songs , 2003, http://www.dreimaskenverlag.de/

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE
  2. ↑ Charts DE
  3. ^ About the marriage of Renate Kern and Klaus-Dieter Hildebrandt at memoryradio.de
  4. ↑ a b Singing and Suizid: Rise and Fall of a German Singer by Wolfgang Miko, Edition Octopus bei Monsenstein and Vannerdat , Münster 2006, ISBN 3-86582-259-2 , from page 203
  5. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Renate Kern
  6. ↑ NWZ online: Museum has a special estate
  7. ↑ And the stars in front of me ... by Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken, 90 min., 1998
personal data
SURNAME Kern, Renate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wood, Nancy; Poggensee, Renate (maiden name); Hildebrandt, Renate (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Tann (Rhön)
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1991
Place of death Hoyerswege