Gitte Hænning
Gitte Hænning - Johansson ( born June 29, 1946 in Aarhus ) is a Danish singer. With their hit I will 'nen Cowboy as a man it was in 1963 one of the most popular performers of the German Schlager. Since the 1980s, it occurs with sophisticated lyrics of the librettist Michael Kunze as mature pop singer in appearance. Her repertoire also includes blues, jazz, musicals and Danish folk songs.
Career
Hænning was in November 1954 as an eight year old first time on stage in her native Denmark. Her father Otto Johansson (* November 19, 1916; † 7 February 2004) was a singing teacher and paved her way into show business when he hit the German success I will marry with her Daddy in Danish ( poison med Farmand ) recorded ( published on 20 October 1954 ). 1958 was the blond girl as the most famous child star the whole of Scandinavia, already had appearances on TV, sung in the film and on the musical stage and 16 plates. From the late 1950s, she also published in German language. Since the early 1960s it has been very successful in the Danish and Swedish charts. In January 1963, she was in Denmark with Ta ' med ud a fisk her very first No. 1 hit. In the same year she was out in Germany even in Sweden with com ned på jorden separated on the 1st place. Thus they had in 1963 three # 1 hits in three countries. She also took in the national finals of the Danish preliminary decision to Euro Vision Song Contest in 1962 with the song Jeg snakker med mig selv part. This song, however, was disqualified. A year later she tried again with the song Lille Sarte kvinde and finished in the preliminary round of the 4th Place.
Nils Nobah she discovered in 1960 for the German pop market and gave her a recording contract with Electrola. After initially moderate success, she won the 1963 German Schlager Festival in Baden -Baden with the title I will 'nen Cowboy as a man who was also a No. 1 hit in Germany.
In the aftermath Gitte stepped usually accompanied by the pop singer Rex Gildo. They were mid-1960s, the most popular duo on the German pop market. With From the city park the lanterns they had again a No. 1 hit. The duo Gitte / Rex Gildo placed to 1965 six more singles that were successful Now the world revolves around you and two on a bench. Furthermore, Gitte also released solo singles in German, Danish and Swedish languages , most of which appeared in the upper middle of the sales charts. Until the 1970s, she had 15 hits in Denmark and 10 hits in Sweden ( here they had in 1965 and 1966 two more # 1 hits ). She was a frequent guest on television shows. Early on, she had meetings with the Jazz. In 1968 the avid jazz lover with the renowned Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland Big Band Album My Kind of World at that time although benevolently by the critics, but the public until many years later, when republishing on CD under the title Out of this World, has been observed.
The late 1960s and early 1970s had Gitte success with the singles One must eventually also times when we say no problems, but secretly, millionaire, white roses, Then You came and rainbow. Multiple they coverte their own German, but also international hits in Danish.
In 1973, she started for Germany with the title " Young Day " at the Euro Vision Song Contest and was eighth. In the 1970s she was with hit titles such as So beautiful no man be (1975 ) and Lass can but as always achieve me today not alone ( 1976) good singles chart rankings, reaching I love playful in Monte Carlo ( 1974) albeit scarce, even the Top Ten. The two male members of the group ABBA produced for Gitte the title happy ending, which is published in 1976 on a single A - side. In 1978 she took part in the preliminary round in Luxembourg for the Euro Vision Song Contest with the song "Rien qu'une femme" and finished in third place behind baccarat. Again and again had Gitte in television own personality shows (1974, 1978, 1981, 1983 ). While she established herself as a show star in Germany, she published while still in Scandinavia, but with decreasing success.
An image shift toward serious pop performer in the early 1980s brought her now also attracted the attention of critics. Rejoice just not too early ( the German version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber Hits Take That Look Off Your Face) in 1980, a great success ( 10). The song was part of the written by Lloyd Webber and recorded originally by Marti Webb one- act musicals for a person Tell Me on a Sunday. Gitte Hænning took a German version of the musical under the title Keep on until Sunday. For this concept album in 1980, she received the German Record Prize. Then the woman were the loves (composed by the Bee Gees in 1980 for Barbra Streisand ), Something has happened (1981 ), I want it all (1983) and Stage Fright (1983), her best-known hits. As a sign of their emancipation Gitte now also took her last name with the record sleeves. During this time she also impressed with several concept albums like Unvarnished (1982 ), the most successful contacts (1983 ), for which she received her first gold record, and Vengeance (1987). Live was to experience on tour Hænning 1984 ( touches Tour ), 1988 ( Now more than ever tour) and 1993 ( Dearest tour). Her two CDs Dearest (1993 ) and My Favorite Songs (1998 ), both published by WEA were, however, less successful.
In the 1990s Hænning played several months in Berlin in the musical Shakespeare & Rock'n'Roll that of Friedrich Kurz ( her then-boyfriend ) was produced. It belonged to a little later also to the ensemble of successful Berlin tent performances of The Magic Flute, directed by George Tabori. Occasionally she completed guest appearances in fixed- game-style music programs. A jazz concert for her father Otto Hænning at the Komische Oper in Berlin in 1997 to great success. The concert Songs for My Father was also released as a live CD.
From 2001 to 2003 she was with her in- jazz program successfully on tour in Germany. Up to the present it occurs with this program again and again. In November 2004, Gitte celebrated its 50th anniversary on stage with a small series of concerts and sang old and new songs. To mark the anniversary, it published two produced by herself new CD album - a live jazz album of " In Jazz " tour and the pop album Johansson, dedicated to her late father in the spring of 2004.
From June 2004 until the end of 2007 stood Hænning together with Wenche Myhre and Siw Malmkvist with the program Gitte, Wencke, Siw - The Show ( " GWS - The Show") over 500 times in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Bremen in Switzerland and Austria, as well as at many other locations on the stage. With two colleagues, she connects, in addition to the Scandinavian origin, some similar station in show business. The published live CD of the show, reaching number 100 in the official German charts in early 2005.
In their homeland Gitte Hænning was in 1980 with the Danish version of Stay still until Sunday for the last time successfully for a long time. The LP reached the 4th place there. This was followed by only a few best-of CDs, but no more new entries. Surprisingly, therefore, was the sales success of the 4- CD box set " The Complete Popboks 1958-1965 " in the spring of 2006, which was also placed in Denmark album charts up to 8th place.
In November 2006, the documentary was I want it all - premiered The Gitte Hænning story of filmmaker Marc Boettcher at the Nordic Film Days Lübeck and later shown on television. In June 2007, the film was released on DVD and it was released a double CD so.
End of August 2007 published the record label Sony BMG, the three successful albums Stay still until Sunday, Ungeschminkt and touches again. In a 3 - CD box All three albums were no longer commercially available since the late 1980s and are now back for the fans available.
In autumn 2007, you could Gitte Hænning relive live in Germany. She toured together with a compiled separately from her orchestra with the jazz- oriented program "I want" by German theaters and concert halls. From October 2008 Gitte Hænning and her 13 -person orchestra with the pop - oriented program was " I want it all - Tour 2008" on tour. The Tour she sat in 2009 and 2010 with the concert tour I want to leave everything.
From late May to July 2010, played and sang it in the Shakespeare Theatre 's production of Twelfth Night, the role of the " fool " directed by Armin wood at the Ruhr Festival Marl and then at the Renaissance Theater ( Berlin). In November 2010 Hænning a new album consisting of new recordings of their greatest hits and four new songs, titled Twelfth Night. This succeeded her to come back after 27 years as a soloist in the German charts.
Gitte Hænning 2012 was seen on the side of professional dance partner Gennady Bondarenko in the RTL - dance show Let's Dance, from which it got out in the fourth round because of the death of her four -year-older sister.
Private
Mid-sixties, she was romantically involved with the Danish jazz musician Niels -Henning Ørsted Pedersen. The late 1960s and early 1970s, she lived with the composer Robert Cornford in London and Rome. Gitte 1974 married her manager Jo Geistler. The marriage, however, was divorced in 1976. In the 1980s, a few years was the director Pit Weyrich her partner. In the 1990s, the musical producer Friedrich Kurz was at her side.
For several years she has lived in Berlin.
Discography ( predominantly German language selection)
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilations
German -language singles (selection)
- Since 1990