Hana Hegerová

Hana Hegerová, civil Carmen Farkašová (born 20 October 1931 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovakian chanteuse and actress.

Life

As a child she attended the ballet and foreign language classes and dreamed of becoming an actress. A graduate of Theatre Conservatory launched under the name Hana Čelková her artistic career as an actress in Komárno on the Slovak- Hungarian border.

In the 1950s, she was invited to her agency to Prague. Here she changed her own words, " exotic " sounding names in the modest pseudonym Hana Hegerová. In initial difficulties, lack of money and icy flats she fled the theater. In 1958, she appeared as a star in the newly formed so-called " theaters of the small stages " Rococo and semaphore.

The greatest successes Hana Hegerová celebrate in the 1960s. Guest performances in 15 countries, including France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria, made ​​known the singer in Europe. Besides her native Slovak and Czech songs she sings in German, English, French, Hungarian, and Yiddish. She has performed among others in the famous Paris Olympia Music Hall - mandatory here a reminiscence of Jacques Brel, who celebrated successes here at the same place.

Your incipient international career in 1968 - invasion and occupation by Warsaw Pact troops brought the end of the " Prague Spring " - a sudden end. Several appearance bans at home and abroad, and even a six-month detention also overtaken Hana Hegerová. Your new field she found at Prague's Na Zábradlí ( "On the railing " ), to which it belonged until the turn of 1989.

Hana Hegerová published after the fall of ten CDs. Four times a year, the singer is seen on stage at the Prague Theatre Kalich, participates in fundraisers, on television and on the radio a frequent guest; yet its medium is the live concert and the direct contact with the audience. Your date last CD with excerpts of a live concert was released in 2006.

The singer sat down next to songs by the great cabaret singer Jacques Brel, among other things, numerous pieces by Kurt Weill, Gilbert Becaud, Charles Aznavour, Georges Moustaki, George Gershwin, Jacques Prévert, William Best, Luis Aguile and Petr Hapka on. In many cases, they interpreted their songs not only in the original language, but also with an insightful text written in Czech.

Also known as " Édith Piaf from Prague" Dubbed still applies as the "Queen of the Czech Chansons " and 2003 saw her 72nd birthday with a gala on the most famous stage in the country, the Prague National Theatre (Narodni Divadlo, also popularly known as " called golden chapel " ), celebrate - sold out in less than an hour. You would never have dared to dream of such a performance, she explained in an interview with Radio Prague: " ... for me, this building is always been sacred, so I feel a great responsibility."

On the question of what lies behind their love of chanson, she explained: "For us, the chanson ' perceived as something very complicated. Especially the so-called realistic Chanson ', which has been my domain. I would describe each song as a chanson. It requires a high level of commitment of the singer and a good quality of the text. "

Discography

• Šansony (1966, 2006)
• I - Hana Hegerová (1967 )
• Hana Hegerová (1969 )
• Recital (1971 )
• So it goes in the world (1972 )
• Recital 2 (1974, 2006)
• Almost a Love Song (1974 )
• We for you ( 1975)
• Lásko Prokleta (1978) [ = Ne me quitte pas (Jacques Brel ) ]
• Ohlédnutí (1984)
• Potměšilý host ( 1987)
• Chansons / When the shadows are longer than the paths ( 1987)
• Live (1990 )
• Paběrky (1991)
• Hity 1962 (1992)
• Hity 1964 (1992)
• Povídej ... (1994)
• Starci a Klarinety (1996 )
• Zlata kolekce (1996 )
• Rozdil (1996 )
• Rýmování o životě ( Výběr písní I II) (1997) [ 2CD ]
• Bratislava live ( 1998)
• Síň slávy (2000) [ 2CD ]
• Můj Dik ( Hana Hegerová zpívá písně Pavla Kopty ) (2005 )
• Všechno nejlepší (2006) [ 2CD ]
• Koncert (2006)
• Paběrky a pamlsky (2009)
• Mlýnské kolo v srdci MEM ( 2010)

Filmography