Nena

Nena ( born March 24, 1960 in Hagen, Gabriele Susanne Kerner actually ) is a German pop musician. With the hit 99 Luftballons Nena the band she gained international notoriety in 1983. With 25 million albums sold worldwide, it is one of the most successful artists of German music history.

3.1 Studio albums

Private life

Gabriele Susanne Kerner was born on 24 March 1960 in Hagen. At the time, her parents lived in Breckerfeld. During a holiday in Spain the age of three she was called by the locals " nena", a Spanish term of endearment for " little girl ", from the formed itself in her family 's nickname Nena. She has two younger siblings, a sister and a brother. Nena spent the first five years of her childhood in Breckerfeld. Then she moved with her family to Copenhagen, where she left early the Christian Rohlfs high school in the eleventh grade. She graduated at the request of their parents trained as a goldsmith.

1987 Nena learned the actor Benedict Freitag know. He is the father of her first-born son (1988-1989) and the 1990 -born twins. With Philipp Palm, a twelve- years-younger drummer and music producer from Esslingen am Neckar, Nena has two more children. The family lives (as of July 2008) in Hamburg- Rahlstedt.

In April 2007, Nena announced the establishment of co-initiated by it " New School Hamburg " known, which opened in September 2007 in Hamburg- Rahlstedt. At this democratic school with space for 85 students in the beginning was first learned in Germany after the Sudbury model and taught. Nena said in an interview, they even had a boring school. Media reported on problems at this school, at the her partner Philipp Palm is one of the headmaster. Were called " violence problems and organizational chaos ". Thus, " a student be treated as outpatients with a concussion " would need about. The school dismissed the accusations.

In September 2009, Nena known to be supporter of the 1990 deceased Indian guru Osho sects and said she practiced his Dynamic Meditation.

Career

1977-1981

In November 1977 Nena met in a nightclub guitarist Rainer Hagen Kitzmann who offered her to enter as a singer in his band, The Stripes. She accepted and in 1978 came the first live performances. The first single Strangers was released in late 1979. The LP, as the band named The Stripes appeared, 1980. Three more singles were released, but were not a great success as the LP. The band came in 1980 with the piece of ecstasy in the plate on kitchen and in February 1981 with the song Tell me your name on the TV show Disco. That same year, the band parted ways.

1982-1987

Nena went at the invitation of the record label CBS Records with her then-boyfriend Rolf Brendel to West Berlin. There she founded with keyboardist Uwe Fahrenkrog -Petersen, guitarist Carlo Karges ( the Nena met in Hagen Extrabreit had ) and bass player Jürgen Dehmel ( a friend of Fahrenkrog -Petersen ), named after her band Nena. In May 1982, the single was released only dreamed whose sales soared after a television appearance on the show Musikladen on 17 August 1982. On 13 September 1982, the band then reached for the first time a ranking in the German charts.

The second single from the band the title appeared 99 balloons in January 1983. A copy of it was taken away by the author Christiane F. along with numerous other German recordings on a trip to the USA. The single was there the DJ Rodney Bingenheimer of K- ROQ in Los Angeles and spread all over the radio stations of the U.S. west coast throughout North America and became the U.S. finally to the million seller. The song became a huge hit worldwide. 1983 Nena also played alongside Mark and Karl Dall Mörl a major role in the German film comedy Pedal to the Metal - I want fun ( Director: Wolfgang Büld ).

After another successful singles and albums occurred in mid-1987 for the separation of the band.

In the same year Nena starred in the film The Invisible Man ( Director: Ulf Miehe ) with. During the filming, she met the actor Benedict know Friday, with whom she then lived until 1992.

1988-2004

Two years after the end of the tape started Nena in the fall of 1989, her solo career gescheh'n with titles such as miracles and you are everywhere, which she had written at the time of the birth of their first child. Published in the 1990s, Nena other pop albums, as a mother of three children, she released several albums of songs.

There were also trips to the world of television: 1994 moderated Nena few months Boulevard Metro Magazine of the television station ARD and 1998 at this station successful with over seven million viewers Countdown Grand Prix.

In 2002 Nena and Uwe Fahrenkrog -Petersen played together a new versions of old hits. The publications achieved high sales figures and Nena was able to celebrate an unexpected comeback. In the same year, she also collaborates with the German DJ Westbam. Published in 2003, Nena as a duet with Kim Wilde song Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime, a remake of their earlier hits Somehow, somewhere, sometime. The title was for weeks in Germany at number three on the charts and peaked in the Netherlands and in Austria number one.

Since 2005

The single Love and the double - CD Want to go with me appeared in February and March 2005. Nena in Germany reached with the single topped the charts and with the double CD number two on the album charts. In October 2005, Nena released at the Frankfurt Book Fair in collaboration with Claudia Thesenfitz authored autobiography Will you go with me. It reached number three on the German bestseller list. In November 2005, Nena started her "Will you go with me " tour that took them through Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

In the first half of 2006 closed Nena advertising contracts, including television spots from a telephone information service as well as a car manufacturer. In September 2006, she released the single Caravan of Love as a duet with Duncan Townsend. The original of this Isley Brothers song of 1985 had been in 1987 was covered by the Housemartins. On Kim Wilde's 2006 to published album Never Say Never is a jointly recorded by Kim Wilde and Nena cover version of the Supremes classic, You Keep Me Hangin 'on in 1966, with Kim Wilde in 1986 had an international number one hit themselves.

On 28 September 2007 appeared Nenas double album Cover me. On this album, the singer interprets national and international hits and personal favorite songs. Pre - singles were Open your eyes, the only original title of the album, as well as a cover of Marlene Dietrich's I will love you. Another extraction was in December 2007, the Klaus Hoffmann- title My way is my way released as a download single.

In October 2008, Nena took over as music Godmother in the children's program Your song of the television KI.KA part. On 7 November 2008 she published the children's album sky, sun, wind and rain. Alongside a duet with Rolf Harris It also includes a duet with Nena's daughter Larissa, who was involved in the texts of two songs. Producer and composer is Nena's life companion Philipp Palm, who also sings in a song. In the same year she was awarded the German Children's Award in the category prize.

From late May to mid-August 2009 was broadcast on the TV channel Arte as part of the Summer of the 80s every day by Philippe Roget newly produced video clip of her song 99 Red Balloons with German and French text.

On 18 September 2009, the single was released, we are true, 2 October 2009 was followed by the album Made in Germany, which was awarded on 25 April 2010 with a gold record.

Nena since the end of 2009, new cover image for the OTTO catalog. She was also the focus of the following media campaign had within the website of the online retailer own shop and presented on the topic of " Glam Rock" brand " Youth against labels".

In 2009, Nena had an appearance at the 100th anniversary celebration of the company MTU / Tognum in Friedrichshafen, which also supplies the defense industry. Here she sang 99 Luftballons, while a Leopard 2 tank was issued on the grounds.

15 May 2010 Nena was in front of 15,000 visitors to the Ecumenical Church in Munich a concert in aid of Christian Blind Mission.

On 12 November 2010 Nena had before more than 80,000 spectators in the sold-out Dortmund's Signal Iduna Park a cameo appearance in which she sang her classic lighthouse along with the fans of Borussia Dortmund. For this performance came after the Dortmund fans had previously often sung in the chorus as the weeks Fansong on the South Stand. In addition to this successful action occurred Nena also BVB - Master Reception 15 May 2011 in front of over 400,000 Dortmund football fans before the Dortmund Westfalenhalle on.

Published in 2010 Nena with singer Peter Heppner is a remake of their song House of 3 suns. In March 2011, Nena took the Atzen Strobo Pop out the single and can also be seen in the accompanying video. She had been the first season in 2011, jury member and coach of the German singing talent show The Voice of Germany, which is broadcast on television channels ProSieben and Sat.1. In March 2014, it got out as a coach and jury member from the program.

Nena's " Live & Acoustic " tour was postponed from December 2011 and January 2012, April 2012. On her website, she wrote: "I am not ill or anything, but it 's not enough at the moment to stand every night on stage. "