Anna German
Russian-Polish singer (1936–1982)
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- Anna Wiktoria German-Tucholska (Russian: Анна Виктория Герман , romanized: Anna Viktoria German , 14 February 1936 – 26 August 1982) was a Polish singer (lirico-spinto), immensely popular in Poland and in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and the 1970s.
- Throughout her music career, she also recorded songs in the German, Italian, Spanish, English, and Latin languages.
- Her mother, Irma Martens (1909—2007), was the child of Plautdietsch-speaking Mennonites with descendants from the Netherlands who exchanged Friesland for the area around the Vistula delta and on Empress Catherine the Great's invitation came to live in the Russian Empire.
- Later, the family settled in the Kuban.
- In the 1996 radio programme Spoor Terug on Dutch public broadcaster VPRO, Irma Martens said that she and her family identified as Dutch despite her Polish passport.
Anna Wiktoria German-Tucholska (Russian: Анна Виктория Герман, romanized: Anna Viktoria German, 14 February 1936 – 26 August 1982) was a Polish singer (lirico-spinto), immensely popular in Poland and in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and the 1970s. She released over a dozen music albums with songs in Polish, as well as several albums with Russian repertoire. Throughout her music career, she also recorded songs in the German, Italian, Spanish, English, and Latin languages.
Family background and early life
Anna German was born in the town of Urgench in Uzbekistan (Central Asia; then the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union).
Her mother, Irma Martens (1909—2007), was the child of Plautdietsch-speaking Mennonites with descendants from the Netherlands who exchanged Friesland for the area around the Vistula delta and on Empress Catherine the Great's invitation came to live in the Russian Empire. Martens' mother Anna Friesen had been born in present-day Ukraine. Later, the family settled in the Kuban. Martens' native language was a Plautdietsch variant with both German and Dutch influences. In the 1996 radio programme Spoor Terug on Dutch public broadcaster VPRO, Irma Martens said that she and her family identified as Dutch despite her Polish passport. Martens studied German in Odesa, but had to leave her village due to a lack of work as a teacher and instead moved to Redkaya Dubrava in Altai Krai. Due to NKVD Order No. 00439, Martens fled to Uzbekistan, where she met Eugen Hörmann.
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