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Trude Herr on a mural by the artist Size Two in Cologne-Ehrenfeld

Trude Herr (born May 4, 1927 in Cologne , † March 16, 1991 in Lauris near Aix-en-Provence in France ) was a German actress , pop singer and theater director .

Childhood and personal life

Trude Herr was born in Cologne-Kalk and grew up in Cologne-Mülheim . Her father Robert Herr was a train driver and, because of his membership in the Communist Party, was imprisoned for a long time and later also in a concentration camp . She wrote the song Papa for him , in which she thanks her for her time with her father; she sang it at his funeral in 1961. She herself was a member of the SPD . From 1933 she attended primary school in Cologne-Mülheim and from 1941 worked in a bakery. Since the Herrs' apartment was destroyed by bombs in 1943, they lived in Ewersbach in Hesse for two years . Trude, who at that time was already called "Tutti" and jokingly also called "dat Pummel" because of her full-bodied shape, worked there as a typist in the city administration of Dillenburg . She is the aunt of the actress Gigi Herr .

In August 1964 she took a five-month journey through the Sahara -Staaten where it in 1969 to the people of the Tuareg belonging Tunisians met Ahmed M'Barek. He accompanied them back to Germany, where they married; the marriage lasted until 1976. In the early 1990s, she met her last partner, Samuel Bawesi, on the Fiji Islands.

Career

In 1946 she first became an extra at the Aachener Wanderbühne, from 1948 she received supporting roles at the Millowitsch Theater in Cologne . There she played u. a. in the comedy The Sold Grandfather, recorded by television, for the first time in a larger role alongside Willy Millowitsch , Elsa Scholten and Franz Schneider . In 1949 she founded the Cologne comedy theater with her friend and mentor Gustav Schellhardt , but its existence did not last long. She was proud of this project all her life and mentioned it repeatedly in press interviews. After the bankruptcy , Trude Herr worked as a barmaid in the gay scene bar Barberina an der Hohe Pforte between 1949 and 1954 .

From 1954, she joined the carnival time again at the events of the various clubs as Kölner handmade paper speaker and always greeted with tumultuous applause. In her performances, she followed Grete Fluss, who has been known as a variety and revue singer since the 1920s . Trude Herr was discovered by Willi Schaeffers , the head of the Tingel-Tangel cabaret , who engaged her in Berlin in 1958 . With the German version of Percolator under the title I don't want any chocolate (I'd rather a man) , she landed her biggest record hit at number 18 on the German hit parade . The German text was written by Carl-Ulrich Blecher . However, he wrote three stanzas, so the instrumental part of the original could be omitted. The song was sung by Trude Herr (as Trude Pippes) in the German hit film Marina , which premiered on August 19, 1960 with its 15 hits. With this music film she achieved her breakthrough in 1960. She starred in over 30 films, had numerous appearances in television programs and was successful in the hit business. With her own ensemble she played very successfully in the Millowitsch Theater from September 1970 in Die Perle Anna, from September 1972 in Die Familie Pütz .

Memorial plaque for Trude Herr in front of her former theater in Cologne's Severinstrasse

In September 1977 she opened her Volkstheater Theater im Vringsveedel on Severinstrasse . There she wanted to develop a popular alternative to the established Millowitsch theater. With plenty of Cologne humor and Cologne sentimentality, garnished with a portion of vulgarity , she wrote plays for this theater such as Die Kölsche Geisha (1977), Der Hausmann und Massage-Salon Denz (1979), Drei Glas Kölsch (1980), Divorce on Kölsch ( 1981), The Clairvoyant (1985) and as the last play in the second spring (1986). Her stage partner at this time was Hans Künster . The program only lasted from September to the end of December, the rest of the time the theater was rented to someone else or was empty. Without municipal grants, which she applied for in 1977 and 1982, the theater was always financially weak. The very high visitor occupancy rate of 97 percent did not change that - the fixed costs, including for 21 employees, were too high. Although it was the best-attended theater in North Rhine-Westphalia , but also because of increasing health problems, the house was closed in February 1986.

In between, she worked in the WDR production Schöne Bescherung - A contribution to the festival by Trude Herr , which was broadcast in December 1983. Between October 1986 and January 1987 she recorded the album I say what I mean with international hits, which she provided with German lyrics, in the Info Studios in Monheim am Rhein with producer Thomas Brück . The song Never goes so completely, which she interpreted with Wolfgang Niedecken ( BAP ) and Tommy Engel ( Bläck Fööss ), reached number 20 in the German charts in August 1987.

Death and afterlife

Grave of Trude Herr

After six serious operations, she moved to the Fiji islands near the capital Suva in July 1987 for health reasons . In 1988 she received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . That year she gave Günther Jauch her last television interview. In January 1991 she returned to Cologne from the Fiji Islands with her partner. In February 1991 she moved to Lauris , a small village near Aix-en-Provence in southern France, where she died of heart failure on March 16, 1991 . She was buried in Cologne's north cemetery.

In February 1995, the green space at the Stollwerck community center in Cologne's Südstadt district was named after her in Trude-Herr-Park . In the summer of that year, a Trude Herr memorial revue took place at Cologne's Roncalliplatz , in which artists such as Anne Haigis , Tommy Engel and the Höhner presented Trude Herr's greatest hits. The idea for this revue came from Thomas Brück and Jürgen Fritz , who composed their hit Never goes one so completely .

In 2002 a monument by Elmar Schulte was erected in her honor in Trude-Herr-Park, which was only completely renovated in 2013. On the occasion of her 80th birthday in 2007, WDR television and the ARD digital program EinsFestival showed the recordings of their plays from their theater in Vringsveedel in Cologne. Three of these plays were released on DVD for the occasion . In 2011, an anonymous donation ensured that her grave site would be preserved for another 25 years.

In August 2020, graffiti artist Size Two from Graz created a three-story mural “Trude Herr” at Venloer Strasse 274 in Cologne- Ehrenfeld .

Discography (selection)

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
I say what I mean
  DE 36 08/03/1987 (8 weeks)
Singles
I dont want chocolate
  DE 18th 02/01/1960 (12 weeks)
In the dive bar to the old toad
  DE 36 03/01/1960 (4 weeks)
Mirror twist
  DE 23 01/01/1963 (8 weeks)
You never go so completely
  DE 20th 08/10/1987 (10 weeks)

EPs

  • Bumsvallera ( The old man stays / Sputnik / Blue are the violets / When I see you with Kurt-Adolf Thelen ; 1958; Philips)
  • Our great aunts in the South Seas ( Gus Backus : Coca with Rum / Blue Caprice: Laylani / Trude Herr: Hula-Twist / Blue Caprice: Under the Stars of the South Seas ; 1963; Polydor)

LPs

  • Gunter Gabriel : Ladies want guys (Gunter Gabriel and Trude Herr: Mama Molly's Makkaroni Band) (1978; Polydor)
  • I say what I mean (1987; EMI Electrola)

CDs

Singles

Trude Herr - I don't want chocolate
  • Quatschkopp-Marsch / Let the father do it (1959; Philips )
  • I don't want chocolate / In the pub "To the old toad" (1960; Philips)
  • I'm always tired in the morning / As beautiful as you (1960; Philips)
  • Oh, Heinrich / 33 144 times (1960; Philips)
  • Tschitschibum / Because I'm so sexy (1961; Philips)
  • He was always a gentleman / Let it be (1961; Philips)
  • Bridesmaid (I hear the bells) / I can cry like a waterfall (1961; Philips)
  • Mirror Twist / Driver Blues (1962; Polydor )
  • I can hardly speak French at all / Such a man is a strange plant (1963; Polydor)
  • My best friend is called Luxi / I am a woman of stature (1963; Polydor)
  • Mama, he's here again / Yes, he can lie (1964; Polydor)
  • Love is not that simple / No, I will not be photographed (1964; Polydor)
  • You were nice to me / After the third bottle (1965; Polydor, unpublished)
  • He looks into the tube / This is how men are (1967; Mondial)
  • We carry it with humor / It's a shame about the time (1969; CBS )
  • Mama, I'm so afraid / Sometimes he says yes (1973; BASF -Cornet)
  • Ich ben dodurch / Conditorei (1978; TVV)
  • The City / Being Older (1987; EMI Electrola )
  • You never go so completely / Föhlenz (1987; EMI Electrola)
  • Beast of Burden (Die Hipp vum Nümaat) / Die Unschuld (with Wolfgang Niedecken ) (1987; EMI Electrola)
  • Understand / I know that wat de meinz (1988; EMI Electrola)

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Gérard Schmidt: Trude Herr. Your life. Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-404-61214-0 .
  • Heike Beutel, Anna Barbara Hagin (Ed.): Trude Herr. One life. Emons, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-924491-94-1 .
  • Ulrike Sprenger: Anyone who has worries also has confectionery. 'Trude Herr: I don't want chocolate (1959)'. In: hits that we will never forget. Sensible interpretations. Edited by Rainer Max, Rainer Moritz. Reclam, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-379-01583-0 , pp. 75-80.

Web links

Commons : Trude Herr  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview in the NDR Talk Show on March 27, 1987
  2. ↑ Trude Herr . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32 , 1964, pp. 76 ( online ).
  3. ↑ https://www.express.de/news/50-jahre-express--trude-herr--niemals- geht-sie-so-ganz- 2708428
  4. ↑ a b Horst O. Hermanni: From Jean Gabin to Walter Huston . Volume 3, 2009, p. 387 f.
  5. ↑ http://rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/Persoenitäten/trude-herr/DE-2086/lido/57c82d8f42ab75.72668780
  6. ^ February 1960; Philips 876 938-7
  7. ↑ Op dat Jlück you have to sit down . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1987, pp. 173 ( online ).
  8. ↑ dailymotion.com: Video Trude Herr, Wolfgang Niedecken, Tommy Engel: You never go completely
  9. ↑ You see! - Episode 3 from February 17th, 1988 (to be found on Youtube )
  10. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Trude Herr
  11. ^ Rüdiger Schünemann-Steffen: Cologne street names lexicon. 3rd ext. Ed., Jörg-Rüshü-Selbstverlag, Cologne 2016/17, p. 782.
  12. ↑ Trude Herr Denkmal is finally finished. In: jeckopkoelsch.de. June 14, 2012, accessed on April 14, 2018 (German).
  13. ↑ Trude's monument finally in a new splendor. In: jeckopkoelsch.de. May 4, 2013, accessed on April 14, 2018 (German).
  14. ↑ Axel Hill: Donation saves the grave of Trude Herr , Express from October 10, 2011, accessed on July 1, 2017.
  15. ↑ Helmut Frangenberg: Trude Herr instead of Nairobi: Street artists set a monument to Cologne actress . Cologne city indicator . S. 27. August 22, 2020. Accessed on August 23, 2020.
  16. ↑ Charts DE
personal data
SURNAME Lord, Trude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, pop singer and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1991
Place of death Lauris , France