Anna German is a pop singer who performed songs in many languages of the world. Her person and fate are shrouded in mystery and many rumors. Many information about her is completely incorrect. However, Anna Herman, whose biography is described in this article, is a true legend.
Pedigree
The Germanic family German moved to Ukraine at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The great-great-grandfather of the singer founded a village near the city of Berdyansk, now called Olgino. It was there that Anna's grandfather Friedrich was born. He studied in Poland, in the city of Lodz. In 1910, Eugen German was born in this village. In total, Frederick had nine children, with whom he returned home after studying.
In 1929, Friedrich fell under repression, he faces five years in the camps. He withstands only one and a half, then dies of hunger somewhere in the Arkhangelsk region.
His children are also in danger. Willy's eldest son manages to escape to Germany. Eugen ends up in the Donbass, where he worked for some time as an accountant in a mine. But the fear of reprisal does not give him rest. To protect his family (wife Alma and son Rudy), he escapes from home.
In the end, he finds himself in the Uzbek town of Urgench. There he meets Irma Martens. She is German by birth, she works as a teacher at a local school. Eugen immediately finds a soul mate in her . February 14, 1936 a couple is born a daughter. Her name will subsequently be recognized by the whole world. After all, she is the future singer - Anna Victoria German.
Childhood
Soon Anna's younger brother Frederick was born. It would seem that the family should be happy. However, the feeling of anxiety did not leave the head of the family. In September 1937, Eugen was arrested on charges of espionage. He was sentenced to ten years, but almost immediately after the sentencing of his father, Anna was transferred to Tashkent and executed there as an enemy of the people.
The family did not know anything about this. He just disappeared from their lives. Only in 1975, his younger brother managed to get documents confirming the death of Eugen.
In 1938, another sorrow comes to the family. Friedrich dies of an illness. Now there is only two-year-old Anna, mother Irma and grandmother Anna Friesen. Women decide to flee an unlucky country. For a long time they cannot find a real home. Wherever they lived: in Novosibirsk and Tashkent. The longest time the family lived in Dzhambul, where it met the Great Victory of 1945. In this city, Anna is finishing three classes.
Here Irma marries the Polish officer Herman Berner, who dies in 1943. It is thanks to this marriage that they freely leave for Poland in 1946. It seems that the time of wandering is over.
The first three years, Anna Herman, whose biography seems incredible, lives with her mother and grandmother in the city of Nova Ruda. Irma works as a daygirl, she is given a tiny little room in a hostel.
Anna studies at the Polish school, receives one five. The girl understands that she has creative abilities, and dreams of going to study at the Institute of Fine Arts. Irma is strict with her daughter, she is categorically against it. Having suffered a need, the mother believed that her child should receive a decent education and practical profession.
Anna German, whose brief biography does not contain all the events of life, graduated from elementary school and entered a specialized gymnasium for children who work. The girl had to work to help her mother and grandmother.
In 1949, the family moved to Wroclaw, where Irma got a job as a teacher at the Agricultural Academy. And Anna is graduating from high school.
Youth
In 1955, the future singer Anna German entered the university at the Faculty of Geology. She receives a diploma in higher education in 1961.
Her fellow students were mainly workers who served in the army. Only four people came to the faculty after school, including Anna. The girl was very serious about her studies. But she loved only summer practice, when she had to spend a long time in the forest. But one day she, along with fellow students Yanechka and Bogusey, was sent to a mining town. Anna Herman, whose brief biography does not cover all the events of life, will remember his first descent into the earth for a long time.
In her student years, the girl visited the climbers section, as she was in love with a local instructor.
The beginning of the creative path
Anya began to sing quite early. But only family members enjoyed her abilities.
As a fourth year student, the girl decided to perform at the festival with her two songs. The performance turned out to be crumpled, and the audience - ungrateful. Only faithful girlfriend Yanechka was delighted and comforted the upset Anna. It was at that moment that the head of the student theater "Pun" approached them. He invited the girl to join the team.
Anna German, whose biography will now be inextricably linked with the stage, enthusiastically participated in all performances, the theater even took part in several festivals. But problems with her studies and lack of time, and even the negative mood of her mother convinced Anna to give up amateur performances.
Here again comes to the fore the girlfriend Yanechka, who had an incredible faith in Ani's talent. By hook or by crook, she agrees to listen to the Wroclaw pop music at the directorate. According to its results, Herman was enlisted in the state.
I had to tour a lot in small towns with a team consisting of a leader, musicians, ballerinas, performers. Sometimes they gave three concerts a day. Such a life was exhausting, but the singer Anna German, for whom creativity was an essential element of life, believed in a better future.
In parallel with the tour, the girl continued to prepare for final exams and defending her diploma. She successfully managed to do all this in 1961.
After an unsuccessful rating commission in Warsaw, Herman meets Mark Bernes, who awakens her heavy memories of childhood and war. Having returned home, the girl found a letter in which the famous pan Kshivka invited her to the Rzeszow stage. It is thanks to this work that Herman gets to the international festival in Sopot in 1963.
Confession
In Sopot, Anna German, whose biography has become the subject of curiosity for many fans, took third place. Then there was a festival in Olsztyn, after which new songs by the singer sounded at the radio station.
In the same year, the girl receives a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and leaves for a couple of months in Rome, where she studies vocals.
Anna met her triumph in Sopot in 1964, when with the song "Dancing Eurydice" she won first place among Poles and second among international performers.
Her extensive world tour begins. At the annual music competitions, she is still the main favorite and constant winner.
In 1964, she made her debut in Moscow. Then came Belgium. After these tours, a giant disk comes out that made Anna Europe talk about Anna Herman.
In 1966, the singer signed a contract with an Italian studio. Before leaving for Rome, Herman gave concerts in Czechoslovakia, France, the USA, and England.
In 1967, the singer represented her country at the San Remo Festival, and then won the Audience Award at the Neapolitan Competition.
Car accident
Everyone predicted a great future for the young girl. But trouble knocked on the door again. In August 1967, she returned to the hotel in Milan by car. The driver showed crazy negligence and fell asleep at the wheel on a mountain road. The car flew at full speed into a concrete fence.
Singer Anna Herman, whose photographs appeared in all the morning newspapers, spent almost two weeks in the intensive care unit unconscious. Upon impact, she was thrown out of the car, the girl received multiple fractures, including the spine, and a concussion.
The singer had to go a long way from numerous operations, a completely immobilized body, a long rehabilitation. Only in 1969 did she take her first steps in a new life.
Since 1970, her touring activities have resumed.
German and USSR
The biography of Anna German, a singer from Poland, is inextricably linked with the Soviet Union. There she was born, there she was loved as a native.
The heyday of her work fell on the 70-80s. Then the studio "Melody" released five of her records. For the singer such masters as Arno Babadzhanyan, Alexandra Pakhmutova, Evgeny Ptichkin, Oscar Feltsman, Yan Frenkel wrote .
The singer sincerely sought to bring the cultures of Poland and the USSR closer together.
The most famous songs in her performance are "Echo of Love", "Tenderness", "Hope". Songs in Russian were distinguished by special sincerity, sincerity and drama.
Song 77
In 1977, a performance that went down in history happened at the Song of the Year festival. Anna German first performed there, performing the song "When the Gardens Bloomed." The ovations were so stormy and long that the organizers, limited by the time of the television broadcast, had to allow an encore.
Love in Anna Herman was incredible in strength. Listening to songs performed by her, a man felt a kindred Russian soul.
Herman in art
In addition to singing, Anna was engaged in cinema. She starred in four films, however, the roles were not the main ones.
Also during her lifetime, documentaries were shot where family chronicles were used and Anna gave interviews (for example, The Return of Eurydice).
A few memory books have been written about her. For example, the book of I. Ilyichev "Anna German. Biography" (the photos in the book are presented extensively).
Herman is also the author of several autobiographical books. "Get back to Sorrento?" was written during a forced rest after the accident. In it, Anna talks about the Italian period of her creative activity. In addition, from her pen came "The Tale of the Rapid-winged Starling" and "We're a Long Echo ...".
Personal life
Singer Anna German, whose personal life was pretty smooth, met her future husband in 1960. Zbigniew Tucholsky was a researcher and came to Wroclaw for work.
Their meeting was quite prosaic. The young man asked to look after a pretty girl for his things while he bathes in the river. After they got into a conversation, and Anna even gave him her goodbye photo.
The singer invited Zbignev to her first concert. Since then, the couple has not parted. After a car accident, they decided to officially marry, although for many years they were in a civil marriage.
At thirty-nine, Herman found out that she was pregnant. But doctors did not make positive predictions. Age and post-traumatic condition could make childbirth very difficult. Fortunately, everything went perfectly, as Anna Herman wanted. Biography and her family, whose photo did not get into the press, increased by one little man. In November 1975, the boy Zbyshek was born, whom his parents lovingly called Vorobyshk.
Now he is a serious scientist who graduated from the University of Warsaw, Department of Bibliography and Documentation.
Illness and death
Everything in the singer’s life was wonderful. Loving husband, beloved son, precious work. But at the end of 1970, Herman recognized a terrible diagnosis: her leg pain was a sarcoma. Despite the terrible news, the artist decides to continue the planned tour. She manages to visit Kazakhstan, Australia. German gives one of his last concerts in Moscow. Overcoming the pain, she performed on stage. At one of the concerts, after long singing for an encore, Herman even lost consciousness.
In Warsaw, Anna underwent several complex operations, but failed to save the singer. She died out on August 25, 1982. Buried in Warsaw.
Interesting Facts
- Anna was very fond of animals, so she condemned and did not understand organizations such as the circus and the zoo.
- She considered the Soviet Union her homeland. Despite the tragic events that took place there, she loved this country and did not refuse it.
- The singer’s fatal illness is a consequence of a car accident in Italy.