Frl. Menke
Ms. Menke (* November 4, 1960 in Hamburg; actually Franziska Menke ) is a German singer. Her achievements they had at the beginning of the 1980s as part of the Neue Deutsche Welle.
Life
Menke was born as the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Menke Menke and Karin. Her father was a producer in the country band Truck Stop, her mother a singer in the choir of Bert Kaempfert.
In May 1980, Franziska Menke took under their own names on a first single. How did you was based on the then current disco sound, but hardly sold.
Two years later, she returned with her producer Harry Gutowski as Miss Menke in the recording studios back. In May 1982, was released by Polydor, the single high mountains. In keeping with the song was for a trimmed New Wave Dirndl her trademark at their performances. This song Miss Menke reached the Top 10 in the German single charts and was among the first artists of the Neue Deutsche Welle, which were invited to the ZDF hit parade. To date, the single has sold about 2.5 million copies.
The follow-up single dream boy reached the German charts and Frl Menke was invited back to the ZDF hit parade. During rehearsals, there were intense discussions regarding Miss Menkes outfit. She'd leave for the concert tailor a wedding dress with matching veil. The supervisor of the hit parade were outraged about this outfit ( it eventually were a family program in which the institution of marriage can not be denigrated ) and instructed the singer to appear without a veil. During the live broadcast but Miss Menke took the veil she had hidden in tulle, forth and set him up. The gesture with which she a letter from her cleavage conjured during the line " I push perfumed letters under your door," was frowned.
From the readers of the magazine Bravo Ms. Menke was chosen in 1982 as one of the ten most popular singers of the year.
In 1983, the single paddle boat in distress, again written by the team Menke / Gutowski. It developed into another hit and is now considered classics of the German New Wave. With the ebbing of the success of Miss Menke subsided. Two more singles from the years 1983 and 1984, missed the charts.
Menke retired into private life and brought two children into the world. In the late 80s and early 90s she earned her living mainly composing of advertising music, among other things, for Berentzen ( "Come to us, come up in the country ...").
1991 appeared a produced by Masterboy remix of their first hits. The following year, Franziska Menke tried with the album I want 's dangerous ( again produced by Harry Gutowski ) a comeback from a minor radio hit I'll get but was no rolls.
From 2000, Menke played frequently in theater productions. First she went in 2000 with the play Let's Twist on tour in Germany. In 2004, she appeared in Richy's dream in Hamburg dolphin show palace. There she also played from April 2005 to April 2006 in the play starry sky on the side of the ex- Trio drummer Peter Behrens as the female lead.
In July 2005, published Frl Menke after years of abstinence plate a new album, Impeccable, which she published in the indie label their old NDW colleague Harry Gutowski and marketed among other things, on its website.
Ms. Menke regularly gives concerts and tours along with other New German Wave colleagues like vultures swoop, Mark, Peter Schilling, or Hubert Kah. The ultimate chart show called Miss Menke as one of the 40 most successful German singers.
Discography
Singles
- How did you (1980, as Franziska Menke )
- High mountains (1982 )
- Traumboy (1982 )
- Pedal boat in distress (1983 )
- Fair luck in Dusseldorf (1983 )
- The whole night ... (1984 )
- High mountains (Remix ) ( 1991)
- I want 's dangerous ( 1992)
- I'll get but no rolls (1993 )
- Sky (1993 )
- Woman next to me (1994 )
- You're not here (2007, together with the band GAS )
- Friends ( 2010)