Mich ميچ
—  village  —
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Country	Iran
Province	Kerman
County	Narmashir
Bakhsh	Rud Ab
Rural District	Rud Ab-e Gharbi
Population (2006)
• Total	387
Time zone	IRST (UTC+3:30)
• Summer (DST)	IRDT (UTC+4:30)

Mich (Persian: ميچ{{#invoke:Namespace detect|main}}‎, also Romanized as Mīch; also known as Hīch-e Bālā, Mīch Bālā, Mīch-e Bālā, Mīj, and Mīj-e Bālā)^[1] is a village in Rud Ab-e Gharbi Rural District, Rud Ab District, Narmashir County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 387, in 100 families.^[2]

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Hildegard Knef
Hildegard Knef, aged 69, at her last concert (March 5, 1995) in Berlin
Born	(1925-12-28)December 28, 1925 Ulm, Germany
Died	February 1, 2002(2002-02-01) (aged 76) Berlin, Germany
Occupation	Actress, singer, writer
Years active	1944–2001
Spouse	Kurt Hirsch (1947–52) (divorced) David Cameron (1962–76) (divorced) 1 child Paul von Schell (1977–2002) (her death)

Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef (December 28, 1925 – February 1, 2002) was a German actress, singer and writer. She was billed in some English language films as Hildegard Neff or Hildegarde Neff.

Early years[link]

Hildegard Knef was born in Ulm. She began studying acting in 1940, aged 14. She appeared in several films before the fall of the Third Reich, but most were not released until after World War II.

During the Battle of Berlin, Knef dressed as a soldier in order to stay with her then lover Ewald von Demandowsky, joining him in defence of Schmargendorf.^[1] She was later sent to a prisoner of war camp.^[2]

Her best known film roles were "Susanne Wallner" in Wolfgang Staudte's film Die Mörder sind unter uns (The Murderers Are Among Us), the first film released after the Second World War in East Germany and produced by DEFA); and in 1950, "Marina" in Die Sünderin (The Sinner), in which she performed a brief nude scene, the first in German film history, causing a scandal. When the Roman Catholic Church protested, she responded vehemently, “I can't understand all the tumult - five years after Auschwitz.”^[3]

In the 1960s, she appeared in a number of low budget films such as Hammer films The Lost Continent.

She appeared in the 1975 screen adaptation of the Hans Fallada novel, Every Man Dies Alone directed by Alfred Vohrer,^[4] released in English as Everyone Dies Alone in 1976^[5] and for which she won an award for best actress at the International Film Festival in Carlsbad,^[6][7] then in Czechoslovakia.

United States[link]

Hildegard Knef's hand and footprints at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood

David Selznick invited her to Hollywood, but she refused to agree to the conditions of the contract which reportedly included changing her name to Gilda Christian and pretending to be Austrian rather than German.^[8]

Years later, Knef's first husband, an American named Kurt Hirsch, encouraged her to try again for success in the U.S. She changed her name from Knef to Neff and achieved a measure of stardom on Broadway as “Ninotchka” in the Cole Porter musical, Silk Stockings.

Chanteuse[link]

She began a new career in 1963 as a singer and surprised her audiences with the deep, smoky quality of her voice and the many lyrics, which she wrote herself. Fans around the world rallied in her support as she defeated cancer several times. She returned to Berlin after the reunification.

In the 1960s and 1970s she enjoyed considerable success as a singer of German chansons, which she often co-wrote. The song she is mostly remembered for is "Für mich soll's rote Rosen regnen" ("Red roses are to rain for me"). She is also known for her version of the song "Ich hab noch einen Koffer in Berlin" ("I still have a suitcase in Berlin") and "Mackie Messer" ("Mack the knife")^[9]. She sold more than three million records in total.

Publications[link]

She published several books. Her autobiography Der geschenkte Gaul - Bericht aus einem Leben (The Gift Horse - Report of a Life) from 1970 was a candid recount of her life in Germany during and after World War II. It allegedly became the best-selling German book after World War II. Her second book "Das Urteil" ("The Verdict") from 1975 was a moderate success. It dealt with her struggle with breast cancer.

Family[link]

She was married three times and had a daughter, Christina (born May 16, 1968) by her second marriage, to British actor David Cameron.

Death[link]

Knef died from emphysema, aged 76, on February 1, 2002.

Selected filmography[link]

• Frühlingsmelodie (1945)
• Murderers Among Us (1946)
• Under the Bridges (1946)
• Die Sünderin (1950)
• Decision Before Dawn (1951)
• Diplomatic Courier (1951)
• Night Without Sleep (1952)
• Henriette (1952)
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
• Illusion in Moll (1952)
• The Man Between (1953)
• Svengali (1954)
• No Orchids for Lulu (1962)
• Caterina di Russia (1963)
• Waiting Room to the Beyond (1964)
• Gibraltar (1964)
• Mozambique (1965)
• The Lost Continent (1968)
• Everyone Dies Alone (1976)
• Fedora (1978)
• La Casa 4 (1988)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Hildegard Knef

• Hildegard Knef at the Internet Movie Database
• Fan site, officially authorized*(German) (partly in English)
• Hildegard Knef on Europopmusic.eu (English)
• Hildegard Knef discography at MusicBrainz
• Short Portrait
• Hildegard Knef at Find a Grave

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Andrea Berg
Background information
Birth name	Andrea Zellen
Also known as	Andrea Berg
Born	(1966-01-28) January 28, 1966 (age 46)
Origin	Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Genres	Schlager
Years active	1995 - present
Labels	White, Jupiter Records, Bertelsmann Music Group
Website	http://www.andrea-berg.de/

Andrea Berg (born 28 January 1966) is a German singer in the schlager genre. According to record certifications, she has sold at least 7,535,000 records.

Berg was born in Krefeld. As a child she would experiment with performing short sketches at carnivals and other celebrations. She later played with a band, and also worked backstage on stage set-up and drove the band's van. During this time she supported herself working as a nurse in the intensive care and oncology departments of a hospital.

Berg's musical career began in 1992 when the producer Eugen Römer obtained a cassette of her performing. He was enthused by her voice, and within a week the first tracks had been recorded for her debut album Du bist frei ("You Are Free"), which contained the singles "Kilimandscharo" and "Schau mir noch mal ins Gesicht". Römer also produced her second album, Gefühle ("Feelings"), which proved her commercial breakthrough. The singles from the album, "Wenn du mich willst, dann küß mich doch" and "Einmal nur mit dir alleine sein", were hits. The album also featured one of her most popular songs, "Die Gefühle haben Schweigepflicht".

In 1997 she released her third album, Träume lügen nicht ("Dreams Don't Lie"), which reached #71 on the German album charts. The first single, "Warum nur träumen", was a #1 hit on some radio playlists and stayed in the charts for 15 weeks.

In summer 1998 the birth of her daughter Lena-Maria was followed by the release of the album Zwischen tausend Gefühlen ("Between a Thousand Feelings"), with twelve songs. The singles from this album were "Diese Nacht soll nie enden", "Insel der Nacht" and "Jenseits der Zärtlichkeit" (1999).

The next album was Weil ich verliebt bin ("Because I'm in Love") in 1999, with the single "Vielleicht ein Traum zu viel". This reached #3 in the ZDF-Hitparade in November 1999. Berg also reached #3 in "Hits of the Year" in January 2000 and was #1 for several weeks in the German airplay charts.

In October 2001 a best-of was released, featuring twelve of her most popular songs. The album went seven-times platinum^[1] and was in the German top 100 albums chart for a record-breaking stay of over 336 weeks. 2.1 million copies have been sold.

She has sometimes had as many as four releases in the German charts simultaneously.

She won the ECHO award in the German-language Schlager category in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007. From 2002 to 2007 she won Germany's prestigious Goldene Stimmgabel six times consecutively, as well as the Amadeus Austrian Music Award for best Schlager album in 2004 and 2005. Her CD Nah am Feuer went gold.^[2]

The 2006 album Splitternackt ("Stark Naked") went straight to #1 in Germany and remained there for several weeks.

The hit "Du hast mich tausendmal belogen" reached #2 in the GEMA chart of collected international sales.

Berg is known not only for her music but also increasingly for her stage outfits. She favours short miniskirts, suspenders, and knee-highs. She has been quoted (in the Neue Post) as saying "When you reach 40 you do have to make an effort to keep the men looking in your direction". ("Wenn man auf die 40 zugeht, muss man sich eben anstrengen, damit die Männer einem noch hinterherschauen.")

From 2002 to 2004 Berg was married to the schlager singer Olaf Henning. In 2007 she married Ulrich Ferber, a sports agent and hotelier. They currently live together with her daughter in Aspach, Baden-Württemberg.

Her new album, released October 2010, Schwerelos received platinum^[3] after 6 days. It went straight to No. 1 in Germany and Austria.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website (German)
• Biography at musicline.de (German)
• Chart performances of her albums (German)

This article incorporates information from this version of the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.

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Semino Rossi (born May 29, 1962 at Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentine-Italian schlager singer living with his south-tyrolian wife in Mils, Tyrol, Austria.

Discography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Semino Rossi

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Herbert Grönemeyer
Herbert Grönemeyer, 2004
Background information
Birth name	Herbert Arthur Wiglev Clamor Grönemeyer
Born	(1956-04-12) April 12, 1956 (age 56)
Origin	Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Genres	Rock, pop rock, soft rock, pop
Occupations	Singer, actor, composer
Instruments	Vocals, piano, guitar
Years active	1978–present
Labels	EMI, Grönland
Website	www.groenemeyer.de

Herbert Grönemeyer (born April 12, 1956) is a German musician and actor, popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He starred as war correspondent Lieutenant Werner in Wolfgang Petersen's movie Das Boot, but later concentrated on his musical career. His fifth album 4630 Bochum (1984) and his 20th album Mensch (Human) (2002) are the best-selling German-language records of all time.^{[citation needed]} He is the most successful artist in Germany with album sales of over 13 million albums.^[1]

Early life[link]

Grönemeyer often refers to his personal roots as lying in the German town of Bochum where he spent most of his childhood, youth and early adulthood. Still today, the song Bochum, first released in 1984, is one of his signature songs, especially during live performances. Being born in Göttingen and not in Bochum he has his own explanation: "I was only born in Göttingen because my mother often fainted when she was pregnant with me. She did this every time she turned to her left side, and no one believed her. In Göttingen there was a professor, a specialist, and he didn't believe her either, at which point she lay down, fainted, and brought me into the world. This is why I was born in Göttingen."^[2]

Work[link]

Grönemeyer’s interest in music was sparked at the age of eight, when he started to take piano classes. These later formed the basis for his work as a pianist and composer at the local theatre Schauspielhaus Bochum. In 1979, at the City of Cologne Theatre (Schauspielhaus Köln), using his musical talent to great effect, he gave an excellent performance as Lorenzo in the The Merchant of Venice. Although never having attended an acting school he soon appeared in several TV productions. During one of the shootings he met his later wife, the actress Anna Henkel. Additionally, Grönemeyer published an album he had recorded with the jazz formation "Ocean Orchestra" in 1978, a year in which he also composed the music for the film Uns reicht das nicht by Jürgen Flimm, together with Jens-Peter Ostendorf. His first solo album Grönemeyer, which was published in 1979, was awarded the Golden Lemon for the ugliest album cover of the year. His second album Zwo was released in 1981. Neither managed to chart. In the same year he starred in Wolfgang Petersen’s successful movie Das Boot as Lieutenant Werner. For the role of composer Robert Schumann in the German-German coproduction Frühlingssinfonie (co-starring Nastassja Kinski and Rolf Hoppe), for which he also composed the film score, Grönemeyer spent six months in the GDR. During the early 1980s Grönemeyer put his main focus on his music; the next two albums Total egal (1982) and Gemischte Gefühle (1983) flopped and most concerts of the planned tour had to be cancelled.

Grönemeyer first met success as a musician in 1984 with the release of Bochum which became the best-sold album in Germany that year, particularly supported by the singles "Männer" ( English lyrics ) and "Flugzeuge im Bauch". A year later Grönemeyer appeared in the TV-movie Väter und Söhne, co-starring Julie Christie, Burt Lancaster and Bruno Ganz. In his next albums Sprünge (1986) and Ö (1988) he increasingly expressed his political opinion, criticising the government under German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. In 1986 Grönemeyer performed at the Anti-WAAhnsinns Festival against nuclear power and he composed the film score for the TV film Sommer in Lesmona, for which he received the Adolf Grimme Award in gold. The release of his first English album What’s all this was followed by a tour through Canada, where it had success in the charts. After the Berlin Wall had fallen Grönemeyer released the album Luxus in which he addressed the feelings in East and West Germany. Having two children together, Felix and Marie, he married his companion Anna Henkel in 1993. In the same year Chaos was released and became a Top 1 hit record in Germany. More than 600,000 people saw the following tour. In 1994, Grönemeyer was the first non-English-speaking artist who was invited by MTV to do an unplugged concert. Four years later Grönemeyer moved to London and released Bleibt alles anders (Everything Remains Different). He also founded his own record label, Grönland Records. In the same year his brother Wilhelm and his wife Anna died of cancer (both dying within 3 days); it took Grönemeyer a year to resume his work. In 2000 he recorded a concert with a philharmonic orchestra and released the DVD Stand der Dinge (State of Affairs). In August 2002 he released his so far most successful album Mensch (Human) which was awarded Platinum even before release due to advance orders. The single "Mensch" became Grönemeyer’s first number one hit in Germany and 1.5 million people saw the 2-year tour. In 2004 and 2006 Grönemeyer recorded songs for the Olympic Games in Athens ("Everlasting") and the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany ("Celebrate the Day"), respectively.

In March 2007 he released his 12th studio album 12 which was followed by a stadium tour across German-speaking countries. Smaller concerts took place in September in Amsterdam, Munich, Dresden and London's Royal Albert Hall.

The three re-recorded albums What's all this, Luxus and Chaos for the English-speaking market were met with limited sales success. Grönemeyer was scheduled to make his American debut on September 17, 2007 at the Beacon Theater in New York City, but the performance has since been postponed.

In January 2010, Grönemeyer performed the anthem "Komm zur Ruhr" as part of the opening ceremony of the "RUHR.2010" - The city of Essen being the "European Capital of Culture 2010" on behalf of the entire Ruhr area.

The magazine TIME awarded him the title of "European Hero" in 2005 for his humanitarian work.

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

• 1979 Grönemeyer
• 1980 Zwo
• 1982 Total egal
• 1983 Gemischte Gefühle
• 1984 4630 Bochum
• 1986 Sprünge
• 1988 Ö
• 1990 Luxus
• 1993 Chaos
• 1998 Bleibt alles anders
• 2002 Mensch
• 2007 12
• 2011 Schiffsverkehr

Filmography[link]

• 1976 — Die Geisel (directed by Peter Zadek)
• 1978 — Von Tag zu Tag (directed by Ulrich Stein)
• 1978 — Uns reicht das nicht (directed by Juergen Flimm)
• 1979 — Daheim unter Fremden (directed by Peter Keglevic)
• 1981 — Das Boot (directed by Wolfgang Petersen)
• 1982 — Doktor Faustus (directed by Franz Seitz)
• 1982 — Frühlingssinfonie (directed by Peter Schamoni)
• 1984 — Die ewigen Gefühle (directed by Peter Beauvais)
• 1985 — Väter und Söhne (directed by Bernhard Sinkel)
• 2007 — Control (directed by Anton Corbijn)
• 2010 — The American (directed by Anton Corbijn): film score by Herbert Grönemeyer

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Herbert Grönemeyer

• Official website
• http://www.groenland.com Grönemeyer's record label
• http://www.letzte-version.de Fan site
• Herbert Grönemeyer on Europopmusic.eu (English)
• Herbert Grönemeyer at the Internet Movie Database
• Herbert Grönemeyer discography at Discogs