Wencke Myhre

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Wencke Myhre in Erfurt, May 2009

Wencke Myhre (born February 15, 1947 as Wenche Synnøve Myhre in Oslo -Kjelsås) is a Norwegian pop singer . She has been successful with hits in Norwegian, German, Swedish, Danish and English since the 1960s.

Career

Wencke Myhre had her first public appearance in 1954 in Oslo with her father Kjell and brother Reidar. In 1960 she won first prize at the Chat Noir talent competition in Oslo. Then she received a record deal from the composer and producer Arne Bendiksen on her 13th birthday . She made her television debut a year later in the NRK show En Runde på Rondo . In 1963 she made her film debut in Elskere (The Lovers) . Since then she has been in the Norwegian charts almost constantly. The NDR brought her in 1964 for her first German television appearance in the current Schaubude . Her first German record was released that year. Hey, do you already know my Peter? at Polydor .

For her song Gi meg en Cowboy til mann ( I want a cowboy as a man ), which Gitte had sung in 1963 , she received her first gold record . In 1964 a donation campaign was started with her as a draft horse, the proceeds of which were used to open Wencke Myhres Children's Clinic in Gaza . At the opening ceremony she met her first husband Torben Friis-Møller. In 1965 she won the International Schlager Festival of the Baltic States in Rostock and came second at the renowned Schlager Festival in Baden-Baden with the title Don't speak about it . At the German Schlager Festival in 1966 , Myhre was not the winner of every apple with the Schlager Beiß . It was her final breakthrough on the German hit market. In the same year, her first German-language long - playing record was released under the brief title Wencke Myhre . For the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1966 she contributed the official World Cup song Vinter og sne (Eng. "Winter and Snow").

This was followed by more German hits and in 1968 participation in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Ein Hoch der Liebe (6th place). At the end of the 1960s she was one of the absolute top stars and teenage idols in Germany. Between 1966 and 1969 she received five Bravo Otto awards (1966 and 1970 bronze, 1967 and 1968 gold, 1969 silver). She was a regular guest on the music shows of German television and appeared with Peter Alexander , Udo Jürgens and many other show greats. In 1970 she got the lead role in her only feature film Our Timpanists Go Up In The Air .

From 1974 she had her first own television show Das ist Meine Welt with books by Hans Hubberten on ZDF , in which she traveled to other countries with musical accompaniment. On January 29, 1976, she achieved an audience rating of 54 percent with her show. In 1977 she received the Golden Camera as the most popular female show star.

Gitte Hænning , Wencke Myhre, Siw Malmkvist 2005 in Frankfurt am Main

From 2004 to the end of 2007 she performed with the two other Scandinavian pop stars Gitte Hænning and Siw Malmkvist with the program Gitte, Wencke, Siw - Die Show . After weeks of appearances in the “Tipi am Kanzleramt” theater tent in Berlin, a nationwide tour followed, during which the singers, who have been popular in Germany since the 1960s, were able to show the German audience not only a few old hits but also their rather unknown musical sides. The show has been played over 500 times in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The live CD released for this hit the top 100 of the CD / LP charts. For this they were jointly awarded the Golden Tuning Fork in 2004 (platinum special price).

On January 31, 2009 she took part in the second semifinals of the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix . She failed with the song Alt har en mening nå (Eng. "Now everything makes sense") in the preliminary round of the Norwegian preliminary decision. In March 2010, Myhre released her first studio album in eight years titled Loved, Loved, which took four years to work on.

On June 1, 2011, a separate exhibition entitled Wenches verden (Eng. "Wenckes World") was opened in Rockheim, the Norwegian National Museum for Rock and Pop in Trondheim . This makes her the first female artist to have her own exhibition in this museum. The Norwegian King Harald V and Queen Sonja opened the exhibition.

In February 2014 Wencke Myhre celebrated her 60th stage anniversary in front of a sold out house in Drammen near Oslo.

Private

Myhre was married three times. From her first marriage to the Danish dentist Torben Friis-Møller, three of her children were born: Kim (* 1971), Dan (* 1973) and Fam (* 1975). From 1980 she was married to the director Michael Pfaffhar , who committed suicide in 1991. Their son Michael was born in 1982, he also works in show business. From 1995 to 1999 she was finally married to the hotelier Arthur Buchardt. She has been in a relationship with the musician Anders Eljas for several years.

In August 2010, Wencke Myhre announced that she had breast cancer .

In 2013, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf published her autobiography Die Wencke .

Discography

German-language publications

Studio albums

  • Wencke Myhre (1966)
  • The evening hour has gold in the mouth (1969)
  • Ra-Ta-Ta (1971)
  • I couldn't live without love (1972)
  • This is my world (1974)
  • 77 (1977)
  • Album (1978)
  • That's me (1979)
  • Life (1980)
  • And I want love (1994)
  • Wenckes Christmas - Wencke Myhre (1996)
  • Viva la Diva (2002)
  • Let's Swing - Stars with a big band sound - Simone, Karel Gott, Wencke Myhre, Semino Rossi, Francine Jordi + SWR Big Band (2005)
  • Loved - Loved (2010)

Live albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE
2005 Gitte, Wencke, Siw - The Show - Wencke Myhre, Gitte Haenning, Siw Malmkvist DE100 (1 week)
DE

More live albums

  • Live 2008 - Wencke Myhre (2009)

Compilations

  • Our timpani go up in the air - Chris Roberts + Wencke Myhre (1971)
  • Happy Wencke (1971)
  • That would never have happened to John (1976)
  • Ein Hoch der Liebe (2003), 2-CD
  • Your Great Achievements (2008)

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT
1964 Yeah I know who I want
Minner 		DE49 (9 weeks)
DE 		-
B-side: Hey, do you already know my Peter
1965 Don't talk about it
 DE5 (16 weeks)
DE 		-
1966 White cloth in a blue jacket
 DE26 (9 weeks)
DE 		-
Don't bite into every apple right away
 DE6 (13 weeks)
DE 		AT8 (8 weeks)
AT
Who saw him?
 DE34 (9 weeks)
DE 		-
1967 Come alone
Wencke Myhre 		DE9 (21 weeks)
DE 		AT3 (16 weeks)
AT
1968 A high love
Wenche Myhre 		DE18 (9 weeks)
DE 		AT17 (5 weeks)
AT
Wencke Myhre flower power dress
 DE17 (10 weeks)
DE 		AT16 (8 weeks)
AT
Love in general
Wencke Myhre 		DE30 (9 weeks)
DE 		-
1969 He's in the gate
 DE4 (20 weeks)
DE 		AT3 (12 weeks)
AT
Evening hour has gold in the mouth
Abendstunde 		DE36 (3 weeks)
DE 		-
1970 Where did you get those beautiful blue eyes?
 - AT14 (4 weeks)
AT
he has a bright red rubberboat
 DE21 (11 weeks)
DE 		AT16 (8 weeks)
AT
1971 The man on the ten-mark note
 DE41 (3 weeks)
DE 		-
1976 That would never have happened to John.
That would never have happened to John 		DE44 (3 weeks)
DE 		-
1977 One mark for Charly
That's me 		DE28 (17 weeks)
DE 		AT9 (8 weeks)
AT
1978 Leave my knees off, Joe
That's me 		DE16 (12 weeks)
DE 		-

More singles

  • A Boy Walks By (1965)
  • All Girls Like to Dream (1965)
  • All Men All (1967)
  • There is only one love like this (1970)
  • Casimir (1971)
  • I couldn't live without love (1972)
  • The best horse in the stable (1972)
  • Bathing with and without (1973)
  • Talking Is Silver - Kissing Is Gold (1974)
  • I only get really perky with tango (1975)
  • A Sunday in Bed (1976)
  • Viva Maria (1977)
  • Somebody's Waiting for You ( Bernard and Bianca ) (1977)
  • Spread our blanket out (1978)
  • Summer Gone Away (1979)
  • The Night I Lost Myself (1980)
  • Oh no no (1981)
  • Bad Boys (1981)
  • We Two Against the Wind (1983)
  • In San Marino (1983)
  • Keep Smiling (1985)
  • The night the sky caught fire (1985)
  • If God Were A Woman (1993)
  • Forgotten Forgotten (1994)
  • Where's the Tenderness (1995)
  • Do you still want to go out with me (2004)
  • Sometimes I secretly cry (2005)
  • The Wind Writes Songs (2005)
  • We live (Live in the Gewandhaus Leipzig, 2008)
  • Loved, Loved (2010)
  • Your Heart, My Heart (2010)
  • This world is so beautiful (2010)
  • We have each other (2011)

Norwegian language publications

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
NO NO
1967 Love a go-go NO10 (20 weeks)
NO
1983 Vi lever NO9 (8 weeks)
NO
1991 Whom jul NO12 (1 week)
NO
1997 Wenches best 1960-97 NO21 (2 weeks)
NO
2001 You and any and all NO40 (1 week)
NO

More albums

  • 1963: Wenche Myhre
  • 1964: La meg være ung

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
NO NO
1963 What is said about the part shall be given to some
Myhre 		NO8 (3 weeks)
NO
Eggs snelle
Wenche Myhre 		NO5 (10 weeks)
NO
Bli med ut og fisk
Wenche Myhre 		NO8 (1 week)
NO
Gi meg en cowboy til mann
Wenche Myhre 		NO1 (17 weeks)
NO
1964 Jeg går på skole
La meg være ung 		NO3 (9 weeks)
NO
La meg være ung
La meg være ung 		NO1 (15 weeks)
NO
Jeg vet hva jeg vil
La meg være ung 		NO5 (8 weeks)
NO
Jeg marsjerer ved din side
La meg være ung 		NO4 (16 weeks)
NO
1965 Å-å-å sheriff
 NO6 (8 weeks)
NO
1967 Love a 'Gogo
 NO7 (4 weeks)
NO
1972 Jeg og you og vi to
 NO1 (29 weeks)
NO

Filmography

Web links

Commons : Wencke Myhre  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography ( memento of February 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) on kjentfolk.no
  2. ^ ZDF yearbook 1976
  3. ↑ A reunion with Wencke? on eurovision.ndr.de
  4. ↑ Wenche Myhre på museum ( Memento from July 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Biography, official homepage of Wencke Myhre ( memento of February 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) or biography, IMDB
  6. ↑ Press excerpts from the KulturInitiative - artist and event management by Wencke Myhre ( memento from March 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Wencke Myhre suffers from breast cancer ( Memento from August 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ a b c d Chart sources: DE AT NO
  9. ↑ News about the new single  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hitparadies.de  
personal data
SURNAME Myhre, Wencke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Myhre, Wenche Synnøve (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo -Kjelsås