Anna German biography briefly. Anna German - biography, photos, songs, height, personal life, husband and children of the singer

The Hermann family (in Russian the surname Hermann turned into German) moved to Russian Empire from Germany. Anna's grandfather Hermann Friedrich was born on the territory modern Ukraine, studied in the city of Lodz (now Poland, at that time - Russia), where Anna's father, Eugen Hörmann (in Russified form Evgeniy German), was born. After studying, Friedrich Hörmann returned to Ukraine with 9 children, but in 1929 he was dispossessed, repressed and soon died in a logging camp in the Plesetsk region (Arkhangelsk region, Russia). Eugen Hörmann moved to the Donbass, where he got a job as an accountant at a mine whose management abused alcohol. When Eugen realized that the blame for the embezzlement would fall on him, and given that his father was repressed and his older brother fled to Germany, the matter could have ended in execution. Eugen decided to flee, leaving his wife and son.

Eugen Hörmann, father of Anna Hermann

Fate brought him to Urgench (Uzbekistan), where he met Irma Martens, a German Mennonite. The Mennonites were descendants of the Dutch who moved to Germany in the 16th century and arrived in Russia in the 18th century at the invitation of Catherine II. Irma worked as a teacher of German, which was her native language (the family spoke the German-Platan dialect).

Anna Hermann's parents: Irma Martens and Eugen Hörmann

On February 14, 1936, Irma and Eugen had a daughter named Anna-Victoria, and a year later their son Friedrich was born.

Photo of little Anna Herman with her parents and grandmother Anna Martens (also German)

However, the couple's happiness was short-lived. In the fall of 1937, Eugen was arrested, and in 1938 he was shot as a “German spy and long-term saboteur.” In 1957, he was rehabilitated posthumously, about which his relatives received a certificate only in 1975.
A year after Eugen’s arrest, little Friedrich dies, after which the family of Anna, her mother and grandmother leaves Urgench and begins to wander around different cities Soviet Union, eventually settling in Dzhambul (now Taraz, Kazakhstan), where Irma meets German-born Polish officer Hermann Berner, whom she marries in 1942. However, he goes missing at the front in 1943.
After the war, Irma decides to leave for Poland, where both of her husbands were born. In 1946 the family settled in Nowa Ruda and in 1949 moved to Wroclaw. Anna Herman was 13 years old when she moved to Wroclaw. Here she studies at the lyceum, and after graduation she enters the Faculty of Geology at the University of Wroclaw. The choice of specialty was made at the insistence of the mother, who wanted her daughter to have a practical profession. Initially, Anna herself was thinking about entering the school of fine arts.

Photo of Anna German-student with her mother:

Anna German's student card

However, fate wanted Anna to devote herself to art, namely singing. Anna German in her autobiography "Come Back to Sorrento?" describes that she became a singer completely by accident, her friend Janechka helped with this:
“Yes, it was Yanechka, my classmate who lived in a neighboring house, who from the very beginning of our acquaintance (that is, from the seventh grade) believed that my true calling was to sing. I don’t deny that I always sang willingly, whenever and whoever wished: both at school and later at student celebrations, and at home for guests. For the first time, I sang the song when I was still a teenager, at a children’s party. New Year's holiday, under a huge Christmas tree. My mother was then a primary school teacher, and her responsibilities included, among other things, organizing children's parties, performances, etc. But I never thought that singing would become my profession. I sang solely for my own pleasure; it never even occurred to me that singing could be approached in any other way.
Meanwhile, Janechka, who was by no means one of the brave, so-called disruptive people, one day, without my knowledge, went to the management of the Wroclaw stage and asked to be auditioned. Having received the promise, she brought me there on the appointed day by force (by force of persuasion, of course, since she was much inferior to me), and I appeared before the artistic leadership.
I was included in a new program that was just being formed. I was guaranteed an astronomical amount, by my standards at that time: four thousand zlotys per month. It seems like a hundred zlotys for each performance.
Of course, I was very grateful to Yanechka, although I muttered dissatisfiedly the whole way. Naturally, I agreed without hesitation, because the “hailstorm” with complex calculations was no longer necessary, and, most importantly, I had to perform nine beautiful melodic songs from the stage. And on top of that, they also paid me for them!
The concert was attended by several singers, four ballet dancers, a group of musicians and two actors who fused all these individual numbers into something whole: Jan Skompski in the role of the valiant sailor Sinbad and Andrzej Bychowski in the role of the crew. In the ports where the ship called, songs were sung, girls danced, music played - as happens in any port in the world.
Therefore, we had to change costumes at lightning speed and sing (depending on the country) in Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, and finally, in our home port, in Polish."

In 1960, Anna met Zbigniew Tucholski, who would become her husband. In one of his interviews, Tukholsky recalls his first meeting with Anna:

- We met when I worked at Polytechnic Institute at the Department of Metallurgy. One day I was sent to Wroclaw for work. I had to return from there at 16.30, and since I managed faster and was good weather, then I decided to go for a swim at the city beach. Then I saw a very beautiful blonde reading a book. I asked her to look after my things, went swimming, and then we started talking. It turned out that the student was studying geology. She was then about 23 years old, and I was 6 years older than her. And even then she said that from time to time she takes part in various concerts.

- What did you pay attention to first?

- Classic Greek facial features and, of course, her beautiful figure - she lay and sunbathed in a swimsuit. We always first pay attention to a person’s appearance, and only then we begin to recognize the soul and character...

Photos of Anna German with her husband Zbigniew Tucholski

Since 1963, Anna German has become a prize-winner of various song competitions in Poland, and in 1967 she became the first Polish singer, who took part in the famous song competition in San Remo.

Anna German - Tańczące Eurydyki (Dancing Eurydice) - the singer’s first hit, which brought her fame in 1964.

Anna German in Italy

In the same year, a French singer took part in the competition for the first time with the song “Ciao amore ciao” by her lover Luigi Tenco, who committed suicide after the failure of the song. A month after this, Dalida also tried to commit suicide.
For Anna German, 1967 also became a sad year, but not because she could not win in San Remo, but because terrible accident, which she ended up in Italy six months later. Driver driving a car on high speed, fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into a concrete barrier. Anna was thrown out of the car through the windshield, she received fractures of the spine, arm, and concussion. She did not regain consciousness for a week, and she was able to recognize her mother, who hastily came to her from Poland, only 12 days after the accident. Anna underwent surgery and was put in plaster. Anna German remembers this period of her life with horror:
“After the operation, I woke up shackled from neck to toe in a plaster shell. When it seemed to me that I couldn’t stand it any longer, I would suffocate in the plaster, when I asked with tears to take it off me - at my responsibility, assuring that I would prefer to remain lopsided than to endure these torments, they always reminded me of San Remo. They convinced me that I would perform there more than once, and they would assist me in front of the TV, but... this can only happen if in the future I become absolutely healthy. and... absolutely straight.
I cannot, and I do not want to, describe the terrible suffering that I experienced during the five months when I lay motionless on my back. But the most severe test was not the pain of the fractures. The plaster pressed tightly against my chest, and the capacity of my lungs was quite solid, developed by singing, and I suffocated in it, lost consciousness, tossed about, and could not sleep. At night, my mother sat by my bed, holding my right, healthy hand in her hands. She also did not sleep and for the thousandth time, at my request, she told me about the same thing - each time in a new way. (“Tell me what it will be like when my cast comes off.”) She drew me a calendar on cardboard, marking the days until I left for Poland. Every morning she handed me a pen and I enthusiastically crossed out the next date.
Mom was very afraid of this move and begged me in every possible way to stay here until the time when the plaster could be removed, but I did not agree, hoping that the Polish orthopedists would free my chest from it.
For six weeks after the operation, I drank only a few sips of milk a day, unable to eat absolutely anything as each mouthful made my breathing even more difficult.”
“I knew that removing the cast did not mean the ability to move. However, I did not imagine that for many months everything would remain practically unchanged, that I would have many months of training on a special table (a device for getting the body used to an upright position ), then learn to sit for a long time and only after all this learn... to walk.
Meanwhile, I continued to lie helplessly on my back. The hospital in Constantine was already the sixth in a row. Many people I know lose their mood at the mere sight of a hospital building. It’s not fun to stay in the hospital, especially for as long as I did, and my health was not good. There are many reasons: suffering due to complex fractures, concussion, prolonged loss of consciousness, surgery, plaster...
It's all weakened nervous system. In the evenings I was seized with fear, growing from powerlessness and immobility. I was afraid to be alone in the room even for a minute. In Italy, at such moments, my mother took my hand, reminded me of facts that had disappeared from my clouded memory, connected disparate fragments into a single whole, helped me in my desperate struggle to restore the image of reality."

Anna German with her mother after the accident

However, Anna German found the strength to recover and return to the stage. This happened in early 1970, 2.5 years after the accident.

In 1975, Anna German gave birth to a son, who was named the same as his father - Zbigniew.

Anna German with her son

Anna German was popular not only in Poland, but also in her homeland - the USSR, where she toured more than once. Her Soviet fans especially loved the songs “Nadezhda”, “When the Gardens Bloomed”, “Echo of Love”, “Chance”, “Shine, Shine, My Star”, “And I Like Him”

Anna German - Nadezhda

Anna German - When the gardens bloomed

Anna German and Lev Leshchenko - Echo of Love (Song of the Year - 1977)

Anna German - Accident

Anna German - Shine, burn, my star

Anna German - I like him

Anna German wrote in her book: “I was in the USSR four times and each time I was convinced of the extraordinary musicality and responsiveness of the public. I have never met such a grateful, sincere, well-versed audience in music anywhere. They cannot be deceived. They will always make the right choice, the most he will reward with warm applause not the most spectacular, but a good song, but at concerts they react and decide right away - after all, there is no time for reflection, there is no time to listen again.”

On December 11, 1977, Anna German’s historic performance took place in the finals of the Song-77 festival. After the performance of the song “When the Gardens Bloomed,” the audience gave such a stormy and prolonged ovation that the festival organizers had to go beyond the strict limits of television broadcasting, and the song was performed as an encore (a rare case in the history of “Songs of the Year”).

In 1979, in Alma-Ata, the singer suddenly became ill. Doctors give her a terrible diagnosis - alveolar soft tissue sarcoma (a type of cancer). However, Herman continues to tour, after which he undergoes several operations that are unable to stop the disease.

In the last year and a half before death, the pain becomes unbearable. In a letter written to her Moscow friend Anna Kachalina on February 27, 1981, Anna German writes: “I’m terribly tired of the pain, I don’t even cry, but I really want to lie down and have peace. I don’t even mind singing... because it hurts. Everything has become unimportant. But as soon as the day comes when I feel a little better, I want to sing.”

Anna's husband Herman recalls that Anna, who, like him, belonged to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, said that if God helped her to recover, she would sing only for him, and even managed to record several psalms on a home tape recorder.

In 2012, on the 30th anniversary of the singer’s death, the Russian television series “Anna German. The Secret of the White Angel” was released, where main role played by Polish actress Joanna Moro. The series was shown, in addition to Russia, in Ukraine, Belarus and Poland.

Anna German is a pop singer who performed compositions in many languages ​​of the world. Her person and fate are shrouded in mystery and many rumors. Much information about her is completely incorrect. However, Anna German, whose biography is described in this article, is a real legend.

Pedigree

The German family Hermann moved to Ukraine at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The singer’s great-great-grandfather 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 this locality Eugen Hermann was born. In total, Friedrich had nine children, with whom he returned home after studying.

In 1929, Friedrich came under repression and faced five years in the camps. He only survives 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 Donbass, where he works for some time as an accountant at a mine. But the fear of reprisals haunts him. To protect his family (wife Alma and son Rudi), he runs away from home.

Eventually he ends up in the Uzbek town of Urgench. There he meets Irma Martens. She is German by origin and works as a teacher at a local school. Eugen immediately finds it in her. On February 14, 1936, the couple’s daughter is born. Her name will subsequently be known to the whole world. After all, she is a future singer - Anna Victoria German.

Childhood

Soon Anna was born younger brother Friedrich. 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 verdict, Anna’s father was transported to Tashkent and shot there as an enemy of the people.

The family knew nothing about this. He simply disappeared from their lives. Only in 1975 did his younger brother manage to obtain documents confirming the death of Eugen.

In 1938, another grief came to the family. Friedrich dies from illness. Now there is only two-year-old Anna, mother Irma and grandmother Anna Friesen. Women decide to flee an unhappy country. For a long time they cannot find real home. Wherever they lived: both in Novosibirsk and Tashkent. The family lived for the longest time in Dzhambul, where they celebrated the Great Victory of 1945. In this city, Anna finishes three classes.

Here Irma marries Polish officer Herman Berner, who dies in 1943. It was thanks to this marriage that they freely left for Poland in 1946. It seems that the time of wandering is over.

For the first three years, Anna German, whose biography seems incredible, lives with her mother and grandmother in the city of Nova Ruda. Irma works as a day laborer and is given a tiny room in a dorm.

Anna studies at a Polish school and gets straight A's. The girl realizes that she has it and dreams of going to study at the Institute of Fine Arts. Irma is strict with her daughter, she is categorically against this. Having suffered through poverty, the mother believed that her child should receive a decent education and a practical profession.

Anna German, short biography which cannot contain all the events of life, graduated primary 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 finishing high school.

Youth

In 1955, the future singer Anna German entered the university at the Faculty of Geology. Diploma of higher education she receives in 1961.

Her classmates were mostly workers who had served in the army. Only four people came to the faculty after school, including Anna. The girl took her studies very seriously. But she only loved summer practice, when she had to spend a long time in the forest. But one day she, along with her fellow students Yanechka and Bogusya, was sent to a mining town. Anna German, whose short biography does not cover all the events of her life, will remember her first descent underground for a long time.

IN student years the girl attended the rock climbing section because she was in love with the local instructor.

The beginning of a creative journey

Anya started singing quite early. But only family members enjoyed her abilities.

Being a fourth-year student, the girl decided to perform at the festival with two of her songs. The performance turned out to be crumpled, and the audience was ungrateful. Only her faithful friend Janechka was delighted and consoled the upset Anna. It was at this 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 her mother’s negative attitude, convinced Anna to give up her amateur activities.

Here again, friend Janechka comes to the fore, who had incredible faith in Anya’s talent. By hook or by crook, she negotiates an audition at the Wroclaw pop directorate. Based on its results, Herman was admitted to the staff.

I had to tour a lot in small towns with a team consisting of a leader, musicians, ballerinas, and performers. Sometimes they gave three concerts a day. Such a life was exhausting, but singer Anna German, for whom creativity was the most important element of life, believed in a better future.

In parallel with the tour, the girl continued to prepare for final exams and defense of her diploma. She successfully managed to do all this in 1961.

After an unsuccessful tariff commission in Warsaw, Herman meets someone who wakes her up difficult memories about childhood and war. Returning home, the girl discovered a letter in which the famous Pan Krzywka invited her to the Rzeszow stage. It was thanks to this work that Herman got to the international festival in Sopot in 1963.

Confession

In Sopot, Anna German, whose biography became a subject of curiosity for many fans, took third place. Then there was a festival in Olsztyn, after which new compositions performed by the singer were played on the radio station.

In the same year, the girl receives a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and goes to Rome for a couple of months, where she studies vocals.

Anna met her triumph in Sopot in 1964, when with the song “Dancing Eurydice” she received first place among Poles and second among international performers.

Her extensive world tour begins. On annual music competitions she's still main favorite and a perennial winner.

In 1964, she made her debut in Moscow. Then came Belgium. After these tours, a giant disc was released, which made the whole of Europe talk about Anna German.

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 Sanremo 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 was returning to her hotel in Milan by car. The driver was incredibly negligent and fell asleep at the wheel on a mountain road. The car flew into a concrete barrier at full speed.

Singer Anna German, whose photographs appeared in all the morning newspapers, spent almost two weeks unconscious in intensive care. 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 through long haul from numerous operations, a completely immobilized body, long rehabilitation. Only in 1969 did she take her first steps in a new life.

Since 1970, her touring activities have resumed.

Herman and the USSR

The biography of Anna German, a singer from Poland, is inextricably linked with the Soviet Union. There she was born, there they loved her like family.

The heyday of her work occurred in the 70s and 80s. Then the Melodiya studio released five of her records. Such masters wrote for the singer as Arno Babajanyan, Alexandra Pakhmutova, Oscar Feltsman,

The singer sincerely sought to bring the cultures of Poland and the USSR closer together.

The most famous songs performed by her are “Echo of Love”, “Tenderness”, “Hope”. The songs in Russian were particularly soulful, sincere and dramatic.

Song-77

In 1977, at the Song of the Year festival, there was a performance that went down in history. Anna German performed there for the first time, performing the song “When the Gardens Bloomed.” The ovation was so stormy and long that the organizers, limited by television time, had to allow an encore performance.

The love in Anna German was incredible in strength. Listening to songs performed by her, a person felt a kindred Russian soul.

Herman in art

In addition to her singing activities, Anna was involved in cinema. She starred in four films, although the roles were not the main ones.

Also during her lifetime they were filmed documentaries, where family chronicles were used and Anna gave interviews (for example, “The Return of Eurydice”).

Several memoir books have been written about her. For example, I. Ilyichev’s book “Anna German. Biography” (photos in the book are presented extensively).

Herman is also the author of several autobiographical books. "Go back to Sorrento?" was written during forced rest after the accident. In it Anna talks about the Italian period of her creative activity. In addition, “The Tale of the Swift-Winged Starling” and “We are a Long Echo...” came from her pen.

Personal life

Singer Anna German, whose personal life was developing quite smoothly, met her future husband in 1960. Zbigniew Tucholski was a researcher and came to Wroclaw for work.

Their meeting was rather prosaic. A young man asked a pretty girl to look after his things while he was swimming in the river. Afterwards they started talking and Anna even gave him a photo of herself as a farewell gift.

The singer invited Zbigniew to her first concert. Since then, the couple has not separated. After car accident they decided to officially get married, although they had been in a civil marriage for many years.

At thirty-nine years old, Herman found out that she was pregnant. But doctors did not make positive predictions. Age and post-traumatic conditions could make the birth very difficult. Fortunately, everything went perfectly, just as Anna German wanted. The biography and her family, whose photos were not published in the press, increased by one little man. In November 1975, a boy, Zbyshek, was born, whom his parents lovingly called Sparrow.

Now he is a serious scientist who graduated from the faculty of bibliography and document science.

Illness and death

Everything in the singer’s life was wonderful. Loving husband, beloved son, precious work. But at the end of 1970, Herman learned a terrible diagnosis: her leg pain. Despite the terrible news, the artist decides to continue the planned tour. She manages to visit Kazakhstan and Australia. Herman gives one of his last concerts in Moscow. Overcoming the pain, she performed on stage. At one of the concerts, after a long encore of singing, Herman even lost consciousness.

Several events were held in Warsaw Anna the most complex operations, but it was not possible to save the singer. She died on August 25, 1982. She was buried in Warsaw.

1. Anna loved animals very much, so she condemned and did not understand such organizations as the circus and the zoo.
2. She considered it her homeland Soviet Union. Despite tragic events happened there, she loved this country and did not give up on it.
3. The singer's fatal illness is a consequence of a car accident in Italy.

Anna German is a truly unique performer. Her soulful voice, memorable repertoire, as well as subtle aristocracy, which became the basis of her entire stage image, made her one of the most popular actresses of her time.

Today this bright singer is no longer with us, but the songs of this performer are still loved by millions of listeners in different corners CIS. To some extent, this is why the story about the life and work of one of the most extraordinary singers in the history of the Soviet stage seems so interesting. After all, Anna German is a singer who will remain with us forever. After all, the songs of this performer will always sound in the hearts of millions of people.

Early years, childhood and family of Anna German

Our today's heroine came from a German-Dutch family, which through her father also had a close connection with Poland. Her mother, Irma Martens, came from a family of Dutch settlers, for a long time who lived in Germany, and then moved to Russia in Catherine’s times. She was a teacher by profession and taught German in one of local schools. It is very noteworthy that, according to Anna German herself, her mother always spoke exclusively German at home.

Anna German: song Nadezhda

In the veins of the father of the future singer - Eugen Hörmann ( adapted version- Evgeniy German) Western European blood also predominated. He was German by nationality, and a simple accountant by profession. However, our today’s heroine never had time to really get to know him. Back in 1938, on false charges of espionage, he was sent to camps and then shot.

After this, Irma Martens and little Anna German had to wander a lot. For some time they lived in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, as well as in other regions of the USSR. Ultimately, the family of the future singer moved to Dzhambul (Kazakh SSR). It was here that the mother of our today’s heroine got married for the second time. Thus, the Polish officer Herman Berner became Anna German's stepfather. The wedding took place in 1942, and already in 1943 German died: in the battles for the liberation of Belarus he was seriously wounded, which ultimately turned out to be his death.

However, even despite his sudden death, Anna Herman’s stepfather greatly helped her family, giving Irma Martens the opportunity to move to Poland as the widow of a Polish officer. Thus, in 1946 Anna found herself in Nowa Ruda, and then in Wroclaw.

Here in Poland, Anna Herman began attending secondary school, as well as drawing and playing music. After classes, she often worked part-time to help her mother with money, but such serious employment did not prevent our today’s heroine from successfully enrolling in the Faculty of Geology at the Wroclaw Faculty.

To some extent, it was this university that became for her a step towards music scene. Here she actively participated in amateur performances and even became one of the leading actresses of the student theater "Kalambur". It was probably during this period that Anna German seriously decided to become a pop singer. Having successfully passed the exam at the Ministry of Culture of Poland, Anna German received official permission to professionally singing activity, which she soon did not fail to use.

Star Trek by Anna German: first songs and great success

In 1963, Anna German performed at the famous festival in Sopot, in which she took third place. After this, the young singer also performed at the All-Polish Festival of Variety Groups and, in the end, became its main triumph. After this, there were other competitions and festivals that allowed Anna German to become a famous Polish singer in her youth.

In 1966, the singer released her first album “Tańczące Eurydyki”, and three years later - its Russian-language version “Dancing Eurydice”. From this moment on, the singer begins to slowly conquer the Soviet Union. She often appears on television and often performs at various music festivals. During this period, such famous composers as Alexandra Pakhmutova, Oscar Feltsman, Vladimir Shainsky, Arno Babajanyan, Jan Frenkel, Evgeny Ptichkin and many others became ardent admirers of her talent. Thanks to the compositions he wrote, the singer gained great popularity in the Soviet Union and began to actually live “in two cities,” alternating trips to Wroclaw with visits to Moscow. During this period, the singer's records were released one after another. It is worth noting that many of them were recorded not only in Polish, but also in Russian.

Anna German Lev Leshchenko Echo of Love

In the mid-seventies, Anna German became one of the symbols of the “countries of the socialist camp.” In this status, she traveled to many countries. So, in particular, her concerts were held in the USA, Canada, France, Italy, West Germany, Australia, Hungary, Portugal and many, many other countries. It is very noteworthy that in each country the singer at least once performed songs in the native language of that state.

For her many years of work, Anna German was awarded the Order for the Revival of Poland, as well as many awards in the USSR.

The brilliant career of the Polish singer was interrupted in the early eighties. In 1982, Anna German was diagnosed with sarcoma, which ultimately became the cause of her death. The woman died on the night of August 26 in one of the Warsaw hospitals. Some time later famous singer was buried in the Calvinist cemetery in Warsaw.

Personal life of Anna German

Concluding the story on a positive note, we note the fact that all her life the woman was married to one the only man. Anna Herman's chosen one was a simple Polish engineer Zbigniew Tucholsky, whom she met while still a student. After a long romance, the lovers got married. In 1975, Anna gave birth to her husband’s son, Zbigniew, who is currently quite famous in scientific circles in Poland.

After the death of the singer, her husband and son participated in many mourning events dedicated to the singer. They even came to distant Urgench, where in the eighties a memorial plaque was unveiled in memory of the great singer. It is also quite remarkable that in this city a street is named after the famous pop singer.

Anna German is a Polish singer.

On February 14, 1936, the legendary singer, favorite of millions of listeners around the world, Anna German, was born. Her soulful and melodic voice left no one indifferent. But fate prepared for the singer not only the boundless love of the public, but also inhuman trials that she could not completely overcome. Anna German would have turned 81 years old.

Anna German is a favorite of several generations.

Anna Herman always called herself a Polish singer, but her ancestors belonged to the Dutch Mennonite family. The singer's great-great-grandfather, while in Ukraine, founded the village of Olgino not far from Berdyansk. After the offensive in the country Soviet power, the Herman family was dispossessed and subject to repression. After endless wanderings they find themselves in Uzbekistan. It was there that Anna Victoria German was born on February 14, 1936.
Ten years later, thanks to the fictitious marriage of the mother of the future singer with a Pole, they manage to move to Poland. Anna German's childhood and youth were spent in continuous attempts to survive. She was constantly working.

Anna German - pop singer.

The beginning of it creative path can be called the 4th year of the Faculty of Geology, where the singer studied. Anna German's performance at the student festival was a little crumpled, but after that, the head of the student theater invited her to join them.

Initially, the singer’s mother Irma Herman did not share Anna’s enthusiasm to connect her life with the stage, but her friend Janechka’s incredible faith in the singer’s talent helped Herman to be enrolled in the Wroclaw stage staff. After this, the group began countless tours around the provincial cities of Poland, participating in various festivals. Popularity gradually comes.

In 1966, the singer entered into a contract with an Italian recording company. All of Europe and the Soviet Union are already talking about Anna German. It would seem that fruitful work and the love of the audience will provide the singer with a brilliant future. But fate decided otherwise.

Anna German had an accident in 1967, which immobilized her for 2 years.

On August 27, 1967, after another performance, Anna German was returning to Milan at night. Unfortunately, its driver fell asleep at the wheel, and at high speed the car crashed into a concrete barrier. The blow was so strong that the singer was thrown through the windshield onto the rocks. The ambulance arrived at the scene only in the morning. And even then they only assisted the driver. While in the hospital, he asked about the fate of the passenger, and only after that did the doctors return to the scene of the accident and find the singer in a coma.

Only two weeks later the singer regained consciousness. Anna German's condition was terrible: she had to spend many months in an orthopedic corset. Only two years later the singer was able to get back on her feet and perform in front of the audience. Fractures of the spine and both legs left their mark. During concerts, special high orthopedic plates were inserted into Anna German's shoes to support the singer's bones.

Anna Herman and her husband Zbigniew Tucholski.

In 1972, Anna Herman married engineer Zbigniew Tucholski, who had been caring for the woman all this time. Anna's pregnancy was very difficult, but, fortunately, the birth was successful. The couple had a son.

Anna German and Lev Leshchenko.

Since 1972, Anna German's career has taken off again. Listeners simply adored the singer’s soulful voice. Touring around the world, recording records, filming films - one would already think that all the troubles and trials of the singer were over.

Anna herself often said that after the tragedy she suffered, God would no longer mock her. But every year the singer’s popularity grew, and her health worsened: decreased immunity, fainting. She tried to get treatment folk remedies and stubbornly refused to go to the doctors.

Anna German in Italy.

In 1980, during a concert at Luzhniki in Moscow, the singer became ill. She is taken to the Sklifosovsky Institute, where Anna German is given a terrible diagnosis - sarcoma (cancer of the leg bones). Her left leg was three times larger than the right one. The disease developed rapidly, the doctors were powerless. Husband German recalls that Anna’s pain was such that ambulance No sooner had she returned to the hospital than she was called again. The legendary singer passed away on August 25, 1982.