Tanja Berg
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Tanja Berg is the stage name of Ute Kannenberg (born September 11, 1941 in Berlin ), under which she became known as a German pop singer .
Life
She grew up in Berlin-Pankow and sang at the age of 15 in a youth club in a band that played skiffle , dixieland and jazz . Then she appeared in the casting show Herzklopfen, which was broadcast on GDR television, for free by Heinz Quermann . The construction of the wall on August 13, 1961 surprised her on a short visit to West Berlin . Despite her apprenticeship contract with Berliner Rundfunk, she gave up everything in East Berlin and had to start from scratch with various jobs in West Berlin.
On stage
From 1962 she studied classical singing with Walter Hauck at the Berlin Conservatory . Due to simultaneous engagements as a singer with the Red Onions , then with the Firestone Band in the then Berlin jazz club Riverboat and appearances in the jazz gallery with Leo Wright , Oscar Pettiford , Ack van Rooyen and Benny Bailey , her de-registration took place in 1964 and the scholarship was reclaimed because of this Time Jazz had no acceptance as a music genre during classical singing studies, and was also considered counterproductive. Your exams were later recognized for the subsequent qualification.
As Tanja Berg , she released her first single in 1964 - supported by the film composer Martin Böttcher - and sang the title melody for the film Das Phantom von Soho (music: Martin Böttcher). In 1966 she also sang the theme song for the film Long Legs - Long Fingers with Senta Berger (music: Martin Böttcher, text: Ingeborg Esterer). When she caught the attention of the successful composer Heino Gaze , a single was released by Polydor under the title Nacht für Nacht (1965). In Beat Club No. 2 on October 30, 1965, she appeared as a guest singer for the Phantoms . She continued to sing in the riverboat and in early 1968 received an appearance on the ARD show Talentschuppen . In 1969 Jack White noticed her in the riverboat and signed her. With her singles she was featured six times in the ZDF hit parade from 1970 to 1973 . She appeared in shows alongside Peter Maffay , Howard Carpendale , Chris Roberts , Roy Black and Marianne Rosenberg . In London she performed with Mungo Jerry , Roger Whittaker and the BBC big band. She also worked with the SFB and the RIAS dance orchestras. In 1971 she had engagements and jazz sessions over three months with Herbie Mann and Sony Sharrock at the New York jazz club Village Vanguard and a one-month engagement in Chicago with singing appearances in six languages.
Despite her successful appearances, discotheque tours and numerous fan clubs, she turned her back on the hit world in 1974 when she got the impression that Jack White was not keeping his promise to promote it more in the direction of jazz. She now sang in the rock band Metropolis , with whom she produced the LP "Metropolis" in 1973 at the Ariola record company. When the band broke up in 1974, they traveled to Thailand and mountain trekking in Nepal. Produced by Tony Atkins, it returned to pop music in 1975 with a new image. However, after negative headlines in the press and disregard for her privacy, she finally withdrew from show business. Because of her deep and intense voice, she was also called the youngest Zarah Leander .
Her best-known titles include I never promised you heaven and the next love is bound to come . Tanja Berg entered the sales charts with both singles in 1972. Her title Diamonds are Forever was a German version of the James Bond title song Diamonds Are Forever .
Over the decades, the two chart titles developed into evergreens , which are still regularly played by most radio stations in Germany. Other singles included The Heart That You Broke , Forgetting Is Easier Said Than Done , A Herd of Wild Horses , Darling, Think About It , or Hey Baby, Can't Keep It (a cover version with her own lyrics of Lou Reeds Walk on the Wild Side ) She worked with the musicians of the rock bands If and Steely Dan during the studio recordings in London. She also sang in the Berlin jazz rock group Os Mundi and played percussion.
After show business
In 1977 she traveled with a group of committed women on a train from Berlin to Beijing; the four-part China report that resulted from this trip and was written by her was published in tip - city magazine for Berlin . No longer in show business, she attended the state technical college for educators and in 1978, on a second educational path, reached university entrance qualification . She completed her studies in social pedagogy and psychology in 1982 "with distinction". Then she worked for prisoners , prostitutes , the homeless and so-called "difficult to educate" children in socially disadvantaged areas.
In 1979 she worked with George Tabori and the composer Stanley Walden in Munich and Berlin, among others in George Tabori's play Mother's Courage for the Münchner Kammerspiele and the Munich Theater Festival 1980. In the same year she received the 2nd prize of the German Phono Academy with the Munich band Bullit . In 1981, the television film Beruf Schlagersängerin was made at Saarland Radio and until 1986 she was a member of the independent theater group Zan Pollo Theater in Berlin. In 1983 she published her experiences with the hit world. In 1984 she was co-founder of the Experimental AudioArt group Transit Communication and produced Die Robinsonate for WDR , RIAS Berlin , Bayerischer Rundfunk , SFB and SWR under the direction of Götz Naleppa. In 1986 and 1988 she worked alongside Inga Rumpf as a lecturer at the international women's rock meeting.
In 1990 she worked together with the singer Urszula Dudziak (New York) during the Summer Academy in Remscheid for jazz and rock on the topic of new vocal forms of expression with the help of electronic transformation of the human voice . From 1990 she worked as a voice actress for various companies such as Arri Contrast , Hermes and Arena Synchron .
At the beginning of 1994 she studied South Indian music with the singer RA Ramamani at the Karnataka College of Percussion in Bangalore / India .
At RIAS -Berlin, today Deutschlandradio , she worked as a journalist and presenter, wrote programs and features and made radio plays. Until June 2013 she also hosted the Tonart - Jazz show on Deutschlandradio Kultur .
Ute Kannenberg has been a lecturer in jazz singing and voice training at the Friedrichshain / Kreuzberg Music School since 1987 .
In 1997 she traveled to Tangier / Morocco to see the American writer and composer Paul Bowles , whose works she had read and whose love of the desert she shared, to talk to him about the project idea, his story "Allal" with musicians, dancers, speakers and singing to bring to the stage as a theater performance, to present it. This visit resulted in the CD Kannenberg on purpose - special appearance Paul Bowles .
In 1998 she and her journalist colleague Willi Meyer (SWR) created a television interview and feature lasting several hours with and about Joachim Ernst Berendt for the broadcaster ARTE .
Trips into the desert and time out in the Huysburg Monastery are part of their annual program. Although she has suffered from untreatable tinnitus for years , she continues to appear as a singer in the Berlin funk-jazz-Latin-rock band RIFF, which has been valued by insiders for decades .
Discography
Albums
| publication | title | Track list |
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| 1972 |
Tanja Berg I never promised you heaven |
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| April 17, 2000 |
Ute Kannenberg Kannenberg on purpose - special appearance Paul Bowles |
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More albums
- 1974: The great successes (Tanja Berg Compilation)
- 1974: Metropolis - Metropolis (Vocals, Percussion: Ute Kannenberg)
- 1993: Ute Kannenberg / uTe kA. Band - Riff - Pat a cake - LIKK records Prod. 9301
- 1996: Cosmopolitan - uTe not specified. Volume - LIKK records Prod. 9502.
Singles
| year | title | ZDF hit parade | Remarks |
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| 1964 | Especially at night | - | A: Especially at night B: Soho |
| 1965 | night for night | - | A: Night after night B: Darling, remember |
| 1970 | Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye | - | A: Well Well Hey Hey Goodbye B: ... because that's Joe |
| 1970 | I can never forget you | May 30, 1970 | A: Can I never forget you? B: The answer is yes |
| 1971 | Go | January 23, 1971 | A: Go B: Sympathy |
| 1971 | When does he come to me | June 19, 1971 | A: When does he come to me B: A herd of wild horses |
| 1972 | I never promised you heaven | January 22, 1972 | 2 versions with reversed A / B sides A: I never promised you heaven B: Come back when you're free |
| 1972 | The next love is sure to come | October 28, 1972 | A: The next love is bound to come. B: Diamonds are forever |
| 1973 | The heart that you break | March 17, 1973 | A: The heart you break B: Like the paths of nameless places |
| 1973 | Forgetting is easier said than done | - | A: To forget is easier said than done. B: The delinquent |
| 1975 | Hey baby you can't help it | - | A: Hey baby, can't you leave it B: The two of us |
| 1975 | Don't think I'm part of you (Don't play your Rock'n'Roll to me) |
- | A: Don't think I'm a part of you (Don't play your Rock'n'Roll to me) B: Listen |
Web links
- Tanja Berg at Discogs (English)
- Biography of Tanja Berg at memoryradio
- Tanja Berg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- List of teachers at the Friedrichshain / Kreuzberg Music School ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charts DE
- ↑ Village Vanguard ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Markus Reich The lost legend is back. In: GlücksPost. P. 68, October 2013.
- ^ ZDF hit parade 1972 , accessed on January 8, 2014.
- ↑ Historie Os Mundi ( Memento from December 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Biography at SWR4
- ↑ tip, 6th year, November 11th-22nd December 1977 and tip 7th year, January 20th-2nd February 1978
- ^ Zan Pollo Theater eV
- ↑ cf. "Get out - Tanja Berg talks to Marianne Rosenberg" in Elmar Kraushaar Rote Lippe. rororo 5087, 1983, ISBN 3-499-15087-5 .
- ↑ and the article "I never promised you heaven" in the book by Rita von der Grün (Ed.) Venus Weltklang / Musikfrauen-Frauenmusik. Elefanten Press Verlag, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-88520-115-1 .
- ↑ Deutschlandradio, the audio art pieces Corpus Delicti
- ↑ Broadcasts in June 2013
- ↑ memory magazine for friends of German oldies , No. 69, 2004.
- ↑ Kannenberg On Purpose at discogs.com
- ↑ Dt. National Library to Pat a cake
- ↑ table of contents
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Berg, Tanja |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kannenberg, Ute (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pop and jazz singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |