Yvonne Catterfeld

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Yvonne Catterfeld (2018)

Yvonne Catterfeld (born December 2, 1979 in Erfurt ) is a German singer and actress .

Life

Beginnings

Catterfeld, the daughter of an industrial welder and a high school teacher, took piano , guitar , singing , ballet and dance lessons from the age of 15 , with Kerstin Radtke and Chung Luong , among others . After graduating from the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium in Erfurt, she took a year off. She then studied jazz and popular music for two years at the Leipzig University of Music and also taught small vocal groups, and she was also the singer of the Jamtonic group .

After completing her studies, she took part in the Voice 2000 singing competition, moderated by Peter Sebastian and broadcast by MDR . She called herself Viviane , but she soon gave up this stage name again. The music manager Thomas M. Stein (then managing director of BMG Germany , later a member of the jury at Deutschland sucht den Superstar ) made the pre-selection for Voice 2000 as a jury member . The BMG record company Hansa signed Catterfeld as the runner-up. In 2001 her first single, Bum , was released under the name Catterfeld , and it did not enter the charts. Over the next two years, Come Back to Me , Nobody Else and Feelings, three more singles appeared under her family name. From September 2001, she played the role of Julia Blum in RTL - soap opera Gute Zeiten .

2003–2006: musical breakthrough

With the title Für dich , produced by Dieter Bohlen , text by Lukas Hilbert , she achieved her musical breakthrough in Germany in 2003 with first place in the German single charts. A year later, she was able to repeat this success with You've broken my heart (produced by Dieter Bohlen, text by Eko Fresh ). She also sang in 2003 at the farewell concert for Modern Talking and in the opening act for Nena and Mariah Carey . She took over her first moderation at Lucky Star ; the pop-rock band Silbermond had their first television appearance there. She also moderated music shows such as The Dome and in 2003 as a representative for Michelle Hunziker Germany is looking for the superstar .

In 2004 she performed at some concerts on the anniversary tour Aufmarsch der Gianten by Udo Lindenberg . In Berlin-Treptow she was so hooted and booed by the audience that she left the stage in tears and did not return for the concert finale. On December 17, 2004, she had her last day of shooting on Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten . She justified her exit from the series by saying that the role did not offer her any further opportunities to try out acting. Her main concern was now to pursue her singing career. In spring 2005 her third album Unterwegs was released with the single Glaub an mich . She ruled out a return to the RTL series. En route was awarded a gold record .

In June 2005, Catterfeld separated from her manager Veronika Jarzombek, who had accompanied her since the beginning of her career. In the media, the main reason for this was suspected to be differences between the manager and Wayne Carpendale , with whom Catterfeld was dating at the time. Jürgen Otterstein has been your manager since then. From November 8, 2005 she played the leading role of Sophie von Ahlen in the ARD - Telenovela Sophie - Braut against will . Since the audience ratings fell short of the station's expectations, the telenovela was discontinued on March 9, 2006 after 65 episodes. In November and December 2006, Catterfeld was in front of the camera for the RTL mystic thriller The Secret of the King's Lake . She played the main role of Marla in it .

2007–2009: musical return and other films

Catterfeld's tour planned for spring 2007 was canceled due to a jaw operation. Compared to previous CDs, the album Aura sold rather poorly and occupied number ten in the charts for a week. In September 2007 the singer recorded the title Better Than Christmas for The Christmas Album by Till Brönner .

On April 25, 2008, Catterfeld and around 200 other artists spoke out in an open letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel against file sharing and called for better protection of intellectual property. The reason for the letter was the "Intellectual Property Day" proclaimed by the World Intellectual Property Organization on April 26, 2008.

Because of their resemblance to Romy Schneider , Catterfeld was intended to portray the title role in the international film A Woman Like Romy . However, the engagement did not materialize. In 2010, Catterfeld played the leading role alongside René Ifrah in the family drama Die Frau des Schläfers, broadcast by Sat.1 .

2010–2013: Musical changes and concentration on acting

Catterfeld together with Markus Hering at a premiere of their film Life is Too Long (2010)

Catterfeld's album Blau im Blau , which was realized with a small team and a small band, was only released in March 2010 due to its extensive shooting commitments. The single of the same name reached number 52 in the German charts.

In 2010 she played the role of Lotte Hass in the television film Das Mädchen auf dem Meeresgrund, produced by ZDF and ORF . The film is about the diving pioneers Lotte and Hans Hass , played by Benjamin Sadler ; Directed by Ben Verbong . In preparation, Catterfeld had to acquire a diving license. In some underwater stunt scenes she was doubled by Anna von Boetticher , the German champion in apnea diving . On October 14, 2011, she brought the compilation The Best of, From Beginning to Now on the market, on which all singles titles released up to then are included. The album did not reach the charts. On November 10, 2011, Catterfeld opened the Bambi Awards with Beautiful Day , a cover version of the U2 song of the same name .

2013–2015: return to music and international film productions

After a three-year musical break, Catterfeld's sixth album Lieber so was released on November 22, 2013 . The first single, Pendel , was released on November 8, 2013. In October 2013, she was in the TV movie Heroes - When Your Country Needs You . In 2013 she was in front of the camera for the Russian film Strana khoroshikh detochek (German: The Land of Good Children), which opened in Russian cinemas in December 2013. The French film Beauty and the Beast by director Christophe Gans , in which Catterfeld can be seen in a supporting role alongside Vincent Cassel and Léa Seydoux, was released on May 1, 2014 . The film is an adaptation of the French folk tale of the same name .

In 2015 she took part in the second season of Sing my song - The swap concert . After the broadcast of the first episode, their album Lieber returned to the charts and reached a new high at number eight. The title song, which she sang herself on the show, entered the single charts. For the success of Sing mein Song - Das Tauschkonzert she was awarded a Bambi on November 12, 2015. On August 29, 2015, Yvonne Catterfeld represented Thuringia with the song Lieber so at the Bundesvision Song Contest 2015 in Bremen and came third behind Mark Forster and the band Donots .

Since 2016: Voice of Germany and Wolfsland

From season 6, which started in October 2016, to season 8, which first aired in 2018, Catterfeld was seen as a coach in The Voice of Germany . At the end of November 2016, she was awarded gold for over 100,000 copies of her album Lieber so sold . On December 9, 2016, the single Irgendwas mit Bengio was released. Catterfeld also founded her own record company, Veritable Records. Her seventh studio album, Guten Morgen Freiheit , was released there on March 10, 2017 . In 2018 she acted as a coach for the first time in the first season of The Voice Senior . She is also one of the four coaches in the second season of 2019.

In the ARD crime series Wolfsland , which has been broadcast since December 2016, Catterfeld takes on the leading role of Görlitz inspector Viola Delbrück alongside Götz Schubert .

In 2020, Catterfeld will return to the casting show The Voice of Germany and form a duo coaching team with singer Stefanie Kloß .

Private life

Catterfeld in 2007 together with her partner Oliver Wnuk

Catterfeld was in a relationship with actor Wayne Carpendale from summer 2004 to August 2007 . After that, she began a relationship with actor Oliver Wnuk , who as Ulf Steinke from the Pro7 - TV series Stromberg was known. The couple met while filming the movie U-900 . On April 19, 2014, Catterfeld and Wnuk became parents of a son.

Discography

Studio albums

year Title
music label 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / without sources
(Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
2003 My world
BMG 		DE1
platinum
platinum

(33 weeks)DE 		AT4th
gold
gold

(20 weeks)AT 		CH3
gold
gold

(16 weeks)CH
First published: May 26, 2003
Sales: + 230,000
2004 Colors of my world
BMG, Hansa 		DE2
gold
gold

(45 weeks)DE 		AT9 (22 weeks)
AT 		CH7 (8 weeks)
CH
First published: March 1, 2004
Sales: + 100,000
2005 On the
move BMG, Hansa 		DE1
gold
gold

(23 weeks)DE 		AT4 (12 weeks)
AT 		CH18 (11 weeks)
CH
First published: March 14, 2005
Sales: + 100,000
2006 Aura
Sony Music 		DE10 (14 weeks)
DE 		AT17 (5 weeks)
AT 		CH26 (5 weeks)
CH
First published: October 20, 2006
2010 Blue in Blue
Columbia , Sony Music 		DE37 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT44 (1 week)
AT 		-
First published: March 5, 2010
2013 Better so
Columbia, Sony Music 		DE8 (19 weeks)
DE 		AT15 (9 weeks)
AT 		CH20 (5 weeks)
CH
First published: November 22, 2013
2017 Good morning Freedom
Veritable 		DE4 (10 weeks)
DE 		AT4 (11 weeks)
AT 		CH7 (4 weeks)
CH
First published: March 10, 2017
Number one albums DE2DE AT-AT CH-CH
Top 10 albums DE6thDE AT4thAT CH3CH
Albums in the charts DE7thDE AT7thAT CH6thCH

Filmography

cinemamovies

Television films

TV Shows

Television broadcasts

Synchronous roles

Audio books

Awards

year Award category
2003 Bambi Shooting star
Golden tuning fork Most successful pop soloist
Golden Wuschel Shooting Star of the Year
Bravo Otto TV star female
2004 Berlin Bear (BZ Culture Prize) pop
echo National rock / pop artist
Image Osgar
Bravo Otto TV star female
2015 Bambi Music National Sing my song - The exchange concert
2018 German television award Best entertainment primetime for The Voice of Germany

Web links

Commons : Yvonne Catterfeld  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ derwesten.de
  2. ↑ https://www.vip.de/vips/yvonne-catterfeld-t2718.html found at vip.de, accessed on September 4, 2019
  3. ↑ jamtonic.de ( Memento from April 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ berliner-zeitung.de
  5. ^ Federal Chancellor should protect artists' rights , heise.de
  6. ↑ google.com or Romy-Film: Catterfeld threatens to exit Morgenpost.de
  7. ^ Yvonne Catterfeld visiting Hanover , nds-ost.business-on.de, December 10, 2009
  8. ↑ ok-magazin.de ( Memento from September 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ moviepilot.de
  10. ↑ spiegel.de Spiegel Online on October 13, 2010
  11. ↑ ProSieben announces participants ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Gold for Yvonne Catterfeld ( Memento from December 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on radiob2.de
  13. ↑ Yvonne Catterfeld shoots ARD crime thriller. Retrieved July 14, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Yvonne Catterfeld as Viola Delbrück. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
  15. ^ Augsburger Allgemeine: "The Voice of Germany" 2020: Coaches in the jury. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Yvonne Catterfeld loves "Stromberg" star , welt.de, November 24, 2007
  17. ↑ Yvonne Catterfeld had a son at Easter , focus.de, April 21, 2014
  18. ↑ Prize Winners 2018 ( Memento from February 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
Yvonne Catterfeld
Studio albums

My world • Colors of my world • On the way • Aura • Blue in blue • Better like that • Good morning freedom

Video albums

Colors of my world • Live on the go

Singles

Boom • Come back to me • Nobody else • Feelings • For you • You broke my heart • You still stay you • Tell me - what do you mean? • Believe in me • A world without you • Remember me to forget you • The time is ripe • Blue in the blue • Pendulum • Better like that • Hey • Anything • What remains • Get better • Blow free • Door and gate • Good morning freedom

Featurings

You are not alone • Where Does the Love Go? • Nangijala • Better Than Christmas • Still • Never ask why?

personal data
SURNAME Catterfeld, Yvonne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES KIV (stage name); Vivianne (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd December 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt