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Anna Wiktoria German-Tucholska[1] (14 February 1936 – 26 August 1982)[2] was a Polish singer, immensely popular in Poland and in the Soviet Union in the 1960s–1970s. She released over a dozen music albums with songs in Polish, as well as several albums with Russian repertoire. Throughout her music career, she also recorded songs in the German, Italian, Spanish, English, and Latin languages.

Anna German
Анна Герман
German in her student years, 1959
Born(1936-02-14)14 February 1936
Urgench, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
Died26 August 1982(1982-08-26) (aged 46)
Warsaw, Poland
OccupationSinger
Years active1960–1982
Awards
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Biography


Anna German was a Polish and Russian language singer. She was born in the city of Urgench in Uzbekistan (Central Asia), then the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union. Her mother, Irma Martens, was a descendant of Plautdietsch-speaking Mennonites invited to Russia by Empress Catherine the Great. Her accountant father, Eugen (Eugeniusz) Hörmann (in Russian, Герман), was also of a German–Russian pastor family and born during travel in Łódź in Congress Poland (part of the Russian Empire), now in Poland. Eugen Hörmann's father, Anna's grandfather, Friedrich Hörmann, who had studied theology at Łódź, was in 1929 incarcerated in Gulag Plesetsk by communists for being a priest; he died there. In 1937, during the NKVD's anti-German operation, Eugen Hörmann was arrested in Urgench on false charges of spying, and executed (officially, sentenced to ten years in prison). Thereafter Anna, with her mother and grandmother, survived in the Kemerovo Region of Siberia, as well as in Tashkent, and later in the Kirghiz and Kazakh SSRs.

Anna German plaque in Wrocław (Trzebnicka Street)
Anna German plaque in Wrocław (Trzebnicka Street)

In 1946, German's mother (who had married Herman Gerner, a Polish People's Army soldier) was able to take the family to Silesia, first to Nowa Ruda and in 1949 to Wrocław.

German quickly learned Polish and several other languages and grew up hiding her family heritage. She graduated from the Geological Institute of the University of Wrocław. During her university years, she began her music career at the Kalambur Theater. German became known to the general public when she won the 1964 II Festival of Polish Songs in Opole with her song Tańczące Eurydyki ('Dancing Eurydices'). One year later, she won the first prize in the Sopot International Song Festival.

German performed in the Marché international de l'édition musicale in Cannes, as well as on the stages of Belgium, Germany, United States, Canada and Australia.

She also sang in Russian, English, Italian, Spanish, Latin, German and Mongolian.[3] In 2001, six of her Polish albums were reissued on CDs. In recent years, many compilation albums of her songs have also been released in both Russia and Poland.


Career in Italy


In December 1966 in Milan, German signed a contract with the CDI company to release her records, thus becoming the first performer from behind the "Iron Curtain" who recorded in Italy. In Italy, German had performed at the Sanremo Music Festival, starred in a television show, recorded a programme with the singer Domenico Modugno, performed at the festival of Neapolitan songs in Sorrento and received the "Oscar della simpatia" award.


Car accident and treatment


On 27 August 1967, while in Italy, on the road between Forlì and Milan, Anna German was involved in a severe car accident. At high speed, the car driven by the impresario of the singer crashed into a concrete fence. German was thrown from the car through the windshield. She suffered multiple fractures and other internal injuries. An investigation revealed that the driver of the car – her manager Renato Serio – fell asleep at the wheel. In aftermath, Serio received only a fracture of the hand and foot. The third passenger, singer Elena Zagorskaya, suffered some scratches but wasn't seriously injured. Meanwhile, German survived the biggest wounds, and had not regained consciousness in aftermath of the crash. After the plaster was taken off, the singer still lay in a hospital bed for half a year. Then it took her a few months to relearn to sit and walk.[4]

Later, she released the autobiographical book Wróć do Sorrento? ('Come Back to Sorrento?'), dedicated to the Italian period of her career. The book's circulation was 30,000 copies.


Career in the Soviet Union


In the 1970s, German toured, performed and recorded in the Soviet Union, working with Aleksandra Pakhmutova,[5] Yevgeniy Martynov,[6] Vladimir Shainsky,[7][8] David Tukhmanov,[6] Oscar Feltsman,[6] Yan Frenkel, Vyacheslav Dobrynin,[7] Alexander Morozov and others. She had become an acclaimed and popular artist there. She remembers: "I loved touring the Soviet Union. <...> These tours did not bring a lot of money, it was much more profitable to fly to America or even participate in some kind of concerts in Europe. But nothing can compare with the emotional reception in Soviet cities and towns."[9]


Personal life


On 23 March 1972, German married Zbigniew Tucholski. Their son, Zbigniew Tucholski, was born in 1975. In the last years of her life, German composed some church songs. Before she died in 1982 of osteosarcoma (at the age of 46), she joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church.[10] German was buried at the Evangelical Cemetery in Warsaw.

Anna loved to cook oriental dishes. Her other favorite foods were boiled potatoes with herring, pickles, pies with cabbage, black tea with lemon, and oatmeal cookies. She did not consume alcohol.


Remembrance


Anna German's star on the Walk of Fame in Opole
Anna German's star on the Walk of Fame in Opole

Books about Anna German



Literary works



Discography



Albums


Anna German grave in Protestant Reformed Cemetery in Warsaw
Anna German grave in Protestant Reformed Cemetery in Warsaw

Singles



Later reprints and compilation albums



Filmography



See also



References


  1. "Anna Wiktoria German-Tucholska – memori.pl". www.memori.pl. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  2. "ГЕРМАН • Большая российская энциклопедия - электронная версия".
  3. Anna German in Mongolia
  4. German, Anna; Герман, Анна (2013). Ėkho liu͡bvi. I. M. Ilʹichev, И. М. Ильичев. Moskva. ISBN 978-5-4438-0293-0. OCLC 858424377.
  5. Виталий Лейбин, Наталья Кузнецова (2015-06-26). "Слова не выкинешь. Какие песни мы поем в душе и какими стихами говорим" (in Russian). rusrep.ru. Archived from the original on 2016-04-19. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  6. 25 лучших песен Анны Герман (Archive In Russian)
  7. 10 незабываемых хитов Анны Герман. In Russian
  8. "Анна Герман — история песен" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2019-01-19. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  9. German, Anna (2013). Анна Герман. Жизнь, рассказанная ею самой. Moscow: Eksmo. p. 256. ISBN 978-5-9955-0698-0.
  10. Fowler-Kline, Fylvia (2013-05-27). "Going Where The People Are". Hope Channel. Retrieved 2020-09-25.


Media related to Anna German at Wikimedia Commons

Preceded by
1976 title=Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest
 Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest
1979		 Succeeded by
to the 1994 contest

На других языках

[de] Anna German

Anna Viktoria German (polnisch Anna Wiktoria German-Tucholska[1], deutsch Anna Victoria Hörmann; * 14. Februar 1936 in Urgentsch, Usbekische SSR; † 25. August 1982 in Warschau) wurde bekannt als polnische Sängerin russlanddeutscher Abstammung. Sie sang in polnischer und russischer Sprache, aber auch auf Deutsch, Englisch, Italienisch, Spanisch, Mongolisch und Latein.
- [en] Anna German

[ru] Герман, Анна

А́нна Викто́рия Ге́рман (нем. Anna Hörmann, польск. Anna Wiktoria German; c 1972 года — польск. Anna Wiktoria German-Tucholska) — советская и польская певица немецко-голландского[1][2] происхождения, поэт и композитор. Известная исполнительница песен на разных языках мира, в первую очередь на польском и русском. Лауреат многих национальных и международных фестивалей, в том числе в Монте-Карло, Сан-Ремо, Неаполе, Виареджо, Каннах, Сопоте.


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