Romy Haag

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Romy Haag

Romy Haag (born Edouard Frans Verba on January 1, 1951 in Scheveningen , Netherlands ) is a German singer , actress , dancer and former nightclub owner.

Life

At the age of 13, Romy Haag left her family and went to the circus. Her career began in the traditional circus Strassburger when she appeared as a clown in children's matinees. At the age of 16 she moved to Paris with the trapeze artist of the circus and made her debut in the famous Parisian nightclub Alcazar as a beauty dancer .

An American show manager offered her a tour, so that she performed with her "Berlin Chanson Program" on Fire Island , Long Island and in Atlantic City . There she fell in love with a street musician from Berlin and went with him to the city, which she sang about but did not know yet.

No theater in the lively nightlife of the then divided city corresponded to their wishes, so that they, at age 26, in 1974 in Berlin-Schöneberg , the Chez Romy Haag opened, which has been very successful over time. Many famous guests such as Udo Lindenberg , Zizi Jeanmaire , Patricia Highsmith , Bryan Ferry , Freddie Mercury , Lou Reed and Mick Jagger , whom she met in 1973, visited the cabaret. David Bowie entered into a relationship with Haag in 1976, moved to Berlin and completed his first tour of Germany.

In 1977 her first single "Liege-Samba" was released, for which Udo Lindenberg wrote text and music. She also went on tour with him. The single "Superparadise" followed the following year. In 1979 a photo homage to her was presented in the New York Profile Gallery, and in 1981 her first LP was released, entitled “So am Ich”, for which Klaus Hoffmann wrote the lyrics.

After nine years, she sold her nightclub in 1983 and went on a journey of discovery around the world. She underwent gender reassignment surgery in Switzerland when she was 35 . Back in the Federal Republic of Germany, she began a new phase in her career in 1986 and toured the German-speaking countries and the USA with the program “City in the Night”.

She starred in 26 films, including "Plastikfieber", " For example Otto Spalt ", " Die Hamburgerillen " and "Mascara" with Charlotte Rampling , and released 17 stylistically different records such as her LP "Flugblatt" or the musical " Tell ! ".

In the mid-1980s she got an art performance in the New York Museum of Modern Art as the main character in the video installation Queen Zero .

In 1997, at the 1997 Berlinale , Haag received an honorary prize for her life's work in film, the Special Teddy Award , a prize for films with a focus on gay, lesbian or transsexual.

In 1999 her autobiography A Woman and More was published . In it she describes her life, the artist scenes in the USA and Berlin in the 1970s and her acquaintance with Amanda Lear .

In 2010 she played in the internet soap opera Doc Love at the side of Dieter Bach , Oliver Bender and Ellenie Salvo González as an assistant.

Over the years she has performed with the following musicians: Conny Göckel (keyboard), Alexander Kraut (keyboard), Lutz Woite (bass), Friedel Schwarz (bass), Erik Küppers (guitar), Blacky Schwarz (guitar), Roland Götz ( Drums), Hansi Wallbaum (drums), Uli Moritz (drums), Eberhardt Fortmann (saxophone).

Honor

The German astronomer Felix Hormuth named a minor planet he discovered on January 29, 2009 after Romy Haag. Since then the asteroid is officially called Romyhaag (305660) .

Discography

  • 1977: Tell! ( Musical with Udo Lindenberg, Alexis Korner , Su Kramer and Jürgen Drews )
  • 1977: Lounger Samba (Telefunken)
  • 1978: Superparadise (Philips)
  • 1979: Showtime (Philips)
  • 1979: Catch me (Aladin / EM)
  • 1981: That's Me (Aladin / CBS)
  • 1983: leaflet (risk)
  • 1985: City in the Night (Constant)
  • 1990: Sweet cherries (Teldec)
  • 1990: Rock n Roll Bitch (Black-Heart Records)
  • 1992: Life is Carnival (Black-Heart Records)
  • 1993: Chaos in Unity (Black-Heart Records)
  • 1994: Toujours Retour (Ricca Records)
  • 1996: Hexenkessel (Black-Heart Records)
  • 1999: Cabaret Berlin (Ricca Records)
  • 2000: So Am I (Ricca Records, remastered)
  • 2001: La Vie En Rose (Monopol Records)
  • 2001: Ballads for Whores and Angels (Ricca Records)
  • 2002: memories are made of this (mystical hunters records)
  • 2003: Wealth (kraut records)
  • 2004: Wealth-Chill-Inn-Music (meditation)
  • 2005: Women I Can't Forget (kraut records)
  • 2010: Moving on (for music)

Movies

  • 1979: The Hamburg Disease, a film by Peter Fleischmann
  • 1987: Ossegg or The Truth About Hansel and Gretel
  • 1987: Mascara, directed by Patrick Conrad
  • 1988: For example Otto Spalt , directed by René Perraudin
  • 2014: Laura - Das Juwel von Stuttgart, directed by Rosa von Praunheim

Radio plays

Web links

Commons : Romy Haag  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Romy Haag: Eine Frau und mehr (Berlin 1999, pp. 13 and 16/17)
  2. ↑ romyhaag.de ( Memento from April 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ): Biography, as of July 22, 2012
  3. ↑ January: Stones roll up with 130 trucks , Die Welt, December 12, 2002
  4. ↑ courage: Romy Haag is looking forward to her ex-boyfriend David Bowie , Die Welt, November 3, 2003
  5. ↑ JPL Small-Body Database Browser
personal data
SURNAME Hague, Romy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Verbaarsschott, Edouard Frans (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German transsexual dancer, singer and night club owner
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Scheveningen , the Netherlands