Anna German
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Anna Viktoria German was a popular Soviet
-born Polish
singer of German
/Dutch
origin.
, a city with a 22-thousand population in northwestern Uzbekistan
, USSR. Her mother, Irma Martens, was the descendent of Dutch Mennonite
s invited to Russia by Catherine II
. Her father, Eugeniusz Hörmann, was an accountant of German descent, born in Łódź, Poland
. In 1937 he was executed by the NKVD
in Urgench
on the charges of spying. Anna and her mother were deported to Kyrgyzstan
.
In 1946 she with her mother, who married a Armia Ludowa
officer, settled in Nowa Ruda
, before moving to Wrocław in 1949.
Anna graduated from the Geological Institute of Wroclaw University
. During her university years, she began her music career at the Kalambur theater. Anna finally became successful when she won the 1964 II Festival of Polish Songs in Opole with her song Tańczące Eurydyki. One year later, she placed first in the international song contest in Sopot
. She was invited to perform in Italy
in the prestigious Sanremo Music Festival in 1967. In Italy Anna German survived a hard car crash, and fully came back to the stage only in 1972, after a long rehabilitation period.
On March 23, 1972, she married Zbigniew Tucholski. They were both members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
. On November 27, 1975 their son, Zbigniew, was born.
Anna performed in the Marché international de l'édition musicale
in Cannes
, as well as on the stages of Belgium
, Germany
, USA, Canada
and Australia
. In the last years of her life she composed some church songs. She died in 1982 from cancer
and was buried in Warsaw
.
Anna German was immensely popular in Poland and in the Soviet Union
. She released over a dozen music albums with songs in Polish, as well as several albums with Russian repertoire. She also sang in English, Italian, Spanish, Latin, and German. In 2001 six of her Polish albums were reprinted on CDs. In recent years many compilation album
s of her songs have also been released in both Russia and Poland.
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
-born Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
singer of German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
/Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
origin.
Biography
Anna German was born in UrgenchUrgench
Urgench is a city in western Uzbekistan. It is the capital of the Khorezm Province, on the Amu Darya River and the Shavat canal. The city is situated 450 km west of Bukhara across the Kyzyl Kum Desert. It is located at latitude 41° 32' 60N longitude 60° 37' 60E, at an altitude of 91 meters.The...
, a city with a 22-thousand population in northwestern Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....
, USSR. Her mother, Irma Martens, was the descendent of Dutch Mennonite
Mennonite
The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named after the Frisian Menno Simons , who, through his writings, articulated and thereby formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders...
s invited to Russia by Catherine II
Catherine II of Russia
Catherine II, also known as Catherine the Great , Empress of Russia, was born in Stettin, Pomerania, Prussia on as Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg...
. Her father, Eugeniusz Hörmann, was an accountant of German descent, born in Łódź, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
. In 1937 he was executed by the NKVD
NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the public and secret police organization of the Soviet Union that directly executed the rule of power of the Soviets, including political repression, during the era of Joseph Stalin....
in Urgench
Urgench
Urgench is a city in western Uzbekistan. It is the capital of the Khorezm Province, on the Amu Darya River and the Shavat canal. The city is situated 450 km west of Bukhara across the Kyzyl Kum Desert. It is located at latitude 41° 32' 60N longitude 60° 37' 60E, at an altitude of 91 meters.The...
on the charges of spying. Anna and her mother were deported to Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...
.
In 1946 she with her mother, who married a Armia Ludowa
Armia Ludowa
Armia Ludowa was a communist partisan force set up by the Polish Workers' Party during World War II. Its aims were to support the military of the Soviet Union against German forces and aid the creation of a pro-Soviet communist government in Poland...
officer, settled in Nowa Ruda
Nowa Ruda
Nowa Ruda is a town in south-western Poland near the Czech border, lying on the Włodzica river in the central Sudetes mountains. As of 2007 it has 25,240 inhabitants. The town is located in Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship...
, before moving to Wrocław in 1949.
Anna graduated from the Geological Institute of Wroclaw University
Wroclaw University
The University of Wrocław is one of nine universities in Wrocław, Poland. Former, German university was founded in 1702 as Leopoldina, and re-founded in 1811 as Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau...
. During her university years, she began her music career at the Kalambur theater. Anna finally became successful when she won the 1964 II Festival of Polish Songs in Opole with her song Tańczące Eurydyki. One year later, she placed first in the international song contest in Sopot
Sopot
Sopot is a seaside town in Eastern Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea in northern Poland, with a population of approximately 40,000....
. She was invited to perform in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
in the prestigious Sanremo Music Festival in 1967. In Italy Anna German survived a hard car crash, and fully came back to the stage only in 1972, after a long rehabilitation period.
On March 23, 1972, she married Zbigniew Tucholski. They were both members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the original seventh day of the Judeo-Christian week, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ...
. On November 27, 1975 their son, Zbigniew, was born.
Anna performed in the Marché international de l'édition musicale
Midem
-MIDEM:Short for Marché International du Disque et de l'Edition Musicale, MIDEM is the world's largest music industry trade fair, which has been held annually at and around the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France, since 1967...
in Cannes
Cannes
Cannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....
, as well as on the stages of Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, USA, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. In the last years of her life she composed some church songs. She died in 1982 from cancer
Cancer
Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
and was buried in Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
.
Anna German was immensely popular in Poland and in the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
. She released over a dozen music albums with songs in Polish, as well as several albums with Russian repertoire. She also sang in English, Italian, Spanish, Latin, and German. In 2001 six of her Polish albums were reprinted on CDs. In recent years many compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
s of her songs have also been released in both Russia and Poland.
Albums
- Na tamten brzeg (1964)
- Tańczące Eurydyki (1965)
- Recital piosenek (1967)
- I classici della musica napoletana (1967)
- Człowieczy los (1970)
- Domenico Scarlatti - Arie z opery Tetida in Sciro (1971)
- Wiatr mieszka w dzikich topolach (1972)
- To chyba maj (1974)
- Anna German (1977)
- Anna German (1979)
- Pomysl o mnie (1979)
- Tylko w tangu/Dookola kipi lato (1979)
- Śpiewa Anna German (1979)
- Надежда (Nadezhda, 1980)
- Последняя встреча (Poslednyaya vstrecha, 1982)
Later reprints and compilation albums
- 1984 Jesteś moja miłością LP
- 1987 Эхо любви (Echo lubvi) - live '79 LP
- 1989 Anna German LP
- 1989 Znaki zapytania LP
- 1990 Powracające słowa vol. 1 LP
- 1990 Powracające słowa vol. 2 LP
- 1991 Zakwitnę różą CD
- 1991 Recital piosenek CD
- 1994 Nasza ścieżka CD
- 1994 Złote przeboje neapolitanskie MC
- 1995 Planeta Anna part 1 MC
- 1995 Planeta Anna part 2 MC
- 1996 Незабытый мотив (Nezabitiy motiv) CD
- 1996 Лучшие песни (Luchshie pesni) CD
- 1998 Когда цвели сады (Kogda tsveli sadi) CD
- 1998 Wiatr mieszka w dzikich topolach CD
- 1999 Tańczące Eurydyki CD
- 1999 Platynowa kolekcja CD
- 1999 Złote przeboje CD
- 1999 Bal u Posejdona (Złota kolekcja) CD
- 1999 Антология советского шлягера (Antologia sovetskogo shlagera) MC
- 2000 Анна Герман. Российская эстрадная музыкальная энциклопедия (Rossiyskaya estradnaya muzikalnaya encyclopaedia) CD
- 2000 Последняя встреча (Poslednyaya vstrecha) CD
- 2001 Любви негромкие слова (Lubvi negromkie slova) CD
- 2001 Ваши любимые песни (Vashi lyubimie pesni) CD
- 2001 Tańczące Eurydyki CD
- 2001 Recital piosenek CD
- 2001 Człowieczy los CD
- 2001 Wiatr mieszka w dzikich topolach CD
- 2001 Domenico Scarlatti - Arie z opery "Tetida in Sciro" CD
- 2001 To chyba maj CD
- 2001 Pomyśl o mnie CD
- 2001 Luchshee - Zvyozdi sovetskoy estradi CD
- 2002 Najlepsze piosenki CD
- 2003 Наши лучшие песни (Nashi lyubimie pesni) CD
- 2003 Człowiecy los collection CD
- 2003 Золотой век русской эстрады (Zolotoy vek russkoy estrady) CD
- 2003 Посидим, помолчим. Полное собрание песен (Posidim, pomolchim) vol.1 CD
- 2003 Спасибо тебе мое сердце. Полное собрание песен (Spasibo tebe moyo serdtse) vol.2 CD
- 2004 Złote przeboje CD
- 2004 Самое лучшее (Samoe luchshee) CD