PHOTO: Helene Fischer
Known throughout Germany, the star of the German hit Helene Fischer was born in distant Russian Krasnoyarsk in 1984. The first singing teacher for little Lena was her older sister Erika. From the age of two, the baby sang something all the time, even learned new words in a singsong voice, and, it’s funny to say, the parents began to fear that their daughter would not learn to speak normally.
A restless time of change began, only a few years remained before the collapse of the USSR, in 1988 the Fischer family decides to move to Germany. In kindergarten, the tiny girl was immediately noticed, she did not part with a big acoustic guitar and sang something in Russian. Years passed, young Elena dreamed of a musical theater stage, however, fate, in the person of the mother of the future star, decreed otherwise, but first things first ... At a private musical school in Frankfurt am Main, Helene Fischer studied vocals. The recorded CD with only six songs performed by her became the starting point in the career of the future singer. Elena's mother sent copies of this disc to various recording studios just to hear the opinions of specialists. And who would have thought, just a few days later, Elena Fischer received a call from Maestro Uwe Kanthak himself! Memories of the debut on the professional stage even now cause the singer to be very excited. The first performance took place on May 14, 2005 during the recording of the ZDF music program and lasted only seven minutes. Helene Fischer's duet with Florian Silbereisen was a huge success. After the performance, Silbereisen immediately invited the aspiring soloist to take part in his 50-day tour of Germany. The young singer moved remarkably, superbly "felt the stage." The experience gained during the three years of studying at the School of Theater and Musical was truly invaluable, for Elena it was never a problem to perform the repertoire in the "silent" German language.
After a series of concerts with Florian Silbereisen, Elena records songs by Jean Frankfurter (now he is her producer). In 2006, her first album was released, unfortunately, this great work was not noticed by pop lovers. Only in 2007, with the release of the second album, did the public rediscover Helene Fischer. The new collection hit the top of the charts, in just a year it received the status of "Gold Disc" four times and once "platinum". Quite unexpectedly, the first collection of 2006 “pulled itself up” after the second album, it became “gold” twice and once “platinum”! Today, the singer has seventeen "gold" and nine "platinum" albums recorded in Germany and Austria, sales of DVDs and CDs have long exceeded 2 million.
Helene Fischer loves the German stage, but sometimes he performs songs in English and Russian for his listeners. The singer hopes that someday her concerts will take place in Russia ...
Helene Fischer is a phenomenon! Pop singer. She is beautiful, popular, always in a good mood, she is one of the brightest stars of the German music scene. Recently, not one hit of the singer has been as popular and successful as the song "Atemlos durch die Nacht" (Holding your breath through the night). German press
Famous German pop singer, dancer and showman.
Over nine million albums sold. The most popular hit-singer in Germany. Her albums "Game of Flowers" and "The Best of Helene Fischer" are the best-selling albums in Germany. Helene has been awarded numerous music prizes, is very active on television, since 2011 she has been hosting her Christmas show "Die Helene Fischer Show", which was noted by Bavarian television in 2015.
Elena Petrovna Fisher was born on August 5, 1984 in Krasnoyarsk, in the USSR. Elena is the second child in the Russian-German family of Maria and Peter Fischer. Her father worked as a physical education teacher at school, and her mother worked as an engineer at the institute.
My grandparents were Germans from the Volga region, they were deported in 1941 to Siberia. Since 1988, Elena's family has been living in the German city of Wörrstadt, Rheinland-Pfalz.
Maria and Peter Fischer
In Elena's brilliant career, her mother played a big role.
After graduating from a real school (Realschule), Lena enters the Stage & Musical School in Frankfurt am Main. He graduated from it in 2003, having successfully passed the exams, he receives a diploma as a musician. Even during her studies, she gets the opportunity to perform at the Dortmund State Theater in "Rocky Horror Show", as well as at the folk theater in Frankfurt in the Schlagerrevue Fifty-Fifty, the musical "Anatevka".
Just at this time, Elena's mother, Maria, secretly copies a rough disc with six of her songs from her daughter and sends it to the famous producer Uwe Kanthak. He, in turn, contacts the producer Jean Frankfurter. Frau Fischer soon received a contract to record an album. Thus began the musical career of this well-known and beloved by many singers.
The singer has never hidden where she comes from. Believe me - it's worth it!
At the beginning of this video clip, which is a little lower than the text, Elena asks the viewers if they know where she was born? Some gave her the exact answer.
“And here are experts,” Elena answered.
– In Krasnoyarsk, in Siberia, in Russia, to be exact.
– I was three and a half years old when my parents emigrated to Germany. I was really so small that I don’t remember anything at all. But you know what I remember very well? Russian songs that my parents sang to me.
HELENE FISCHER - BEST SONGS
Helene Fischer Show "Chicago Musical"
In conclusion, I would like to add the following. Helene Fischer gathers full halls and stadiums not only with the Russian-speaking audience, but rather the opposite. Her real fans and admirers are just the native Germans.
Personally, I am not a fan of this singer, I don’t have more than one of her discs, but half of our team is at work, they just go crazy, starting with grandmothers and ending with their grandchildren. But I can't help but admire this purposeful, hardworking, open woman! In addition, the repertoire of this singer mainly consists of songs in German. And this deserves great respect. Those who sing in German can be counted on the finger.
New collection:
And a collection of decorations for Christmas 2014.
It was sold in the well-known Cibo store. Yes, yes, it is "Chibo", known in Russia as a brand of quality coffee.
So, it was in this store that I watched the following scene: As a decoration, near the shelves with the collection, Helene, cut out of cardboard, stood in full growth, and a lot of people crowded around, of different ages, and everyone took turns taking photos against the background of this scenery.
It seems to me that few people in our country know about this extraordinary German singer with Russian roots. Russian fans of popular music, and even music lovers, are not very interested in foreign performers, if, of course, they do not fall into the promotion of show PR specialists. By the way, it is precisely through the efforts of these people (well, and journalists, of course) that the musical picture in the field of Easy Llistening is extremely ugly in our country - along with really talented performers, absolutely voiceless mediocrities almost dominate on the venues, like all sorts of glucose, chicherin, frisks, mistresses image makers and oligarchs. Even the older generation, in which the picture is more prosperous, has its odious figures (in my opinion, of course). Rasputin alone is worth something! For me, this diva is the brightest symbol of vulgarity, bad taste, vulgarity, although for some reason many people find her torn and drunken voice attractive. However, I digress a lot...
And when, after all our television and radio music terror with the eternal and orderly tired clip of stars, you suddenly encounter a performer who has strong, sonorous, clear vocals, frankly beautiful appearance, polished stage manners, bright melodies - all this makes a strong impression. Takova Elena Fisher(Helene Fischer) - the star of the German hit, a young 26-year-old singer, whose name occupies the first lines in the charts in Germany and Austria.
Charming Lena was born in Russia, as a child she emigrated with her parents to her historical homeland, where she managed to become famous. For now, I won't say anything more. Let's watch and listen. You can find a lot of all sorts of material on the net, but, unfortunately, the vast majority of the videos are of very low quality. However, I managed to find quite decent videos:
So, Elena Fisher ( Helene Fischer) was born on August 5, 1984 in Siberia, in Krasnoyarsk. Lena Fisher's grandparents shared the fate of thousands of Volga Germans who were exiled to Kazakhstan and Siberia in 1941. Lena's mother Marina worked at one of the departments at the university, and her father, Peter Fisher, taught physical education at school.
Lena was the youngest daughter, but the older sister Erika also grew up in the family, who loved to sing and communicated with her younger sister exclusively through songs. Parents even feared for some time that little Lenochka would start not to speak, but to sing.
You won’t immediately understand from whom Lenochka got a strong and clear voice. Mom felt the music, but did not sing. Dad is too. Lena told reporters that she had a voice in her grandmother. Already at the age of three, the child sang for real. The first talent of the youngest daughter was noticed by dad - he recorded the baby's voice on a tape recorder.
In June 1988, we accompanied the Fischers to Germany, - says Marina's friend Natalya Glazunova. - There was a pre-departure fuss, and now Lenochka takes a toy guitar, “plays” and sings: “The old mill is spinning, spinning, water is beating against stones ...”
The girl still did not pronounce sounds clearly, but she sang wonderfully. She also danced. We then told our parents: she would be an artist.
A four-year-old girl, in whose hands the guitar looked like a harp, sang at that time in Russian. Then there was the school and the girl's desire not to stand out, but to be like the rest. The Russian language somehow imperceptibly faded into the background, it was spoken only in the family. Today, Elena understands almost everything in Russian, but she does not dare to speak. She is a perfectionist by nature and is used to doing everything only well. According to Elena, the Russian language became for her in Germany the same as German was for the Russian Germans in Siberia - it seems, as well as native, absorbed with mother's milk, but which was spoken only in the family. The singer does not dare to speak on complex topics in Russian, because, according to her expression, she does not keep up with her thoughts. She thinks in German.
After graduating from the Stage & Musical School in Frankfurt am Main, Lena was accepted into the Rocky Horror Show as well as the Fifty-Fifty show. She sang at the beginning in musicals, and it was an excellent school.
Elena Fischer's stage language is so expressive and beautiful* that many performers of songs in their native language could learn from her, music critics are convinced. And therefore, the singer's choice of the German hit genre, according to the performer's managers, was the only right decision.
Elena's external data, her charm and beautiful voice could, according to experts, bring success in the pop music genre, but the singer was never interested in any kind of popular casting show like the German analogue of the Russian "Star Factory". Fischer, who received her musical and theater education in Frankfurt am Main, is said by critics to move well on stage, love the camera, and the camera loves her. Elena wanted to become a musical theater actress, but became the star of a German hit.
While studying at the private School of Musical, Fischer's mother came across her daughter's six-song demo CD. She made copies and secretly sent them to various recording studios to see how the professionals reacted. A week later, 19-year-old Elena Fischer received a call from renowned music manager Uwe Kanthak ), which, according to the girl, carried her into the world of the hit.
The debut on the big stage, Elena recalls, took place on May 14, 2005 in the ZDF program, the second national television channel. It was a duet with singer and TV presenter Florian Silbereisen. The performance, accompanied by dancers from the German Television Ballet, lasted seven minutes. As Elena says, she “still trembles” when she remembers this premiere.
For Lena, it was an unforgettable experience - a huge auditorium, TV cameras, and she, like Thumbelina - a small fragile girl on a huge stage next to the stars
Immediately after the performance, Florian Silbereisen invited Elena Fischer to take part in his own tour. The 50 days that they spent together, performing in different cities of Germany, became the beginning of the birth of a new star of the German hit.
Elena's work is helped by the experience gained in musicals. It is not easy for many performers to pronounce complex words and constructions clearly in the “non-sung”, unlike English, German language, and even so that the voice remains melodic and soft.
First, the young singer recorded two studio compositions with her current composer and producer Jean Frankfurter, and in 2006 the first album of Elena Fischer was released. To date, the singer has released 9 platinum and 17 gold albums in Germany and Austria. The number of CDs and DVDs sold with her songs has exceeded the two million mark.
Elena Fisher is one of the youngest performers in the hit genre, which is more popular with older people. She could sing about love for teenagers and, for sure, would win their hearts too. But lovers of hits, according to Elena, are a more faithful audience.
The singer adds that she fell in love with the German stage with all her heart, but this does not mean that she does not perform songs in English or Russian at her solo concerts. Moreover, Fischer dreams of one day giving concerts in Russia, because, according to her confession, she loves this country with all her heart.
“My family has a lot to do with Russia,” Lena emphasizes, “and I would like to believe that my songs will find a response in the hearts of people who live not only in Siberia, where I come from, but also in St. Petersburg and Moscow.”
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*If you try to find a Russian analogue of Fischer's stage language, then here, in my opinion, priority would belong to Lyudmila Senchina- without any exaggeration, a unique and largely underestimated singer of our stage. If some circumstances had turned out differently, she could have seriously squeezed all the classic stars of the then Russian song in the ratings.
** In this regard, in Germany, among men, a performer of folk and pop songs stands out very prominently Heino(Hans Georg Kramm). By the way, he is a very interesting singer, I will try to tell you about him somehow. In our country, in terms of professionalism in the stage proficiency in the native language, the same Senchina stands out clearly. I mean, of course, the stage. But this singer can be safely put on a par with my favorite Kazarnovskaya, Kamburova, Shmyga, in general with singers of a higher genre, for whom competent command of the language is, in fact, a pass to the stage. In this sense, it’s better not to talk about our stage - only tears ...
P.S. Can you imagine, for example, some "tattoo" singing a cappella? Rave…
But Lena and her musical colleagues do it brilliantly.
Birthday 05 August 1984
German singer-songwriter
Childhood and youth
Elena was born in Krasnoyarsk on August 5, 1984 in the family of Peter and Marina Fisher. The couple by that time already had one daughter - Erica. Lena's father worked as a physical education teacher, and her mother worked as an engineer at the department of one of the universities. Petr Fischer's parents belong to the Volga Germans and were exiled to Siberia in 1941. In June 1988, the Fischer family, like thousands of other Russian Germans, emigrated to Germany as "German settlers".
In Germany, the Fischers settled in Wölstein in Rhineland-Palatinate. After leaving school, Helena graduated from the private music school Stage & Musical School in Frankfurt am Main. Even during her three-year studies, Helena performed on the stage of the State Theater in Darmstadt, as well as on the stage of the Volks Theater in Frankfurt.
Musical career
One day, while Helena was studying at Stage & Musical School, her mother, secretly from her daughter, copies a demo CD with Helena's six songs and sends it to various recording studios to see the reaction of professionals. A week later, Helena is contacted by the famous music manager Uwe Kanthak (German Uwe Kanthak), with which the brilliant career of the singer begins.
Helena's debut on stage took place on May 14, 2005 in one of the programs of the central television channel ARD. It was a duet with singer Florian Silbereisen (German: Florian Silbereisen).
On February 3, 2006, the first album of the singer "Von hier bis unendlich" was released. The following year, the singer releases her second album, So nah wie Du. Both albums are certified gold. Fischer's third album "Zaubermond" is released on June 27, 2008, the fourth - "So wie ich bin" - on October 9, 2009.
Her voice was heard for the first time in Siberia, today many thousands of German halls applaud him. The star of the German hit comes from Russia, but rose in the homeland of their ancestors. Deutsche Welle correspondent met with Elena Fischer
Elena Fisher - laureate of the "Echo 2009" award
Born in Krasnoyarsk and famous in Germany, the popular German hit singer Helene Fischer shared her secrets of success and plans for the future with Deutsche Welle.
"As she is"
Immediacy and charm
The charm of Elena Fisher affects the interlocutor from the first minute of communication. The fragile 25-year-old girl has no traces of stellar arrogance. A disarming smile, ease of communication turned the interview into a relaxed and friendly conversation without any taboos. I saw how worried one of the singer's managers was, fearing that Elena would not say something superfluous.
On October 9, 2009, Elena Fisher's new CD "The Way It Is" ("So wie ich bin") was released, which became the formal reason for the interview. The new album is about love. Elena Fisher has been singing about her for only a few years, but in general Elena has been singing for as long as she can remember herself - from early childhood.
Lena learned to speak through songs
Lena was only two and a half years old when, sitting on her older sister Erika's lap, she sang along with her. And her sister loved to sing and taught Lena new words with the help of children's songs. Parents even got worried - what if the child, instead of speaking, will sing? That did not happen. The girl turned out to be quite talkative, she just fell asleep exclusively to the lullabies of her mother and older sister.
In 1988, when the Fisher family moved from Krasnoyarsk to Germany, Lena attracted the attention of kindergarten teachers with her favorite toy, a guitar brought from Russia. Elena did not want to part with her even in kindergarten. They did not interfere with her in the hope that this way the toy would get bored faster.
If you do it, it's perfect.
A four-year-old girl, in whose hands the guitar looked like a harp, sang at that time in Russian. Then there was the school and the girl's desire not to stand out, but to be like the rest. The Russian language somehow imperceptibly faded into the background, it was spoken only in the family. Today, Elena understands almost everything in Russian, but she does not dare to speak. She is a perfectionist by nature and is used to doing everything only well.
Fisher is a welcome guest on many talk shows.
According to Elena, the Russian language became for her in Germany the same as German was for the Russian Germans in Siberia - it seems, as well as native, absorbed with mother's milk, but which was spoken only in the family. The singer does not dare to speak on complex topics in Russian, because, according to her expression, she does not keep up with her thoughts. She thinks in German.
German hit star
Elena Fisher's stage language is so expressive and beautiful that many performers of songs in their native language could learn from her, music critics are convinced. And therefore, the singer's choice of the German hit genre, according to the performer's managers, was the only right decision.
Elena's external data, her charm and beautiful voice could, according to experts, bring success in the pop music genre, but the singer was never interested in any kind of popular casting show like the German analogue of the Russian "Star Factory". Fischer, who received her musical and theater education in Frankfurt am Main, is said by critics to move well on stage, love the camera, and the camera loves her. Elena wanted to become a musical theater actress, but became the star of a German hit.
Florian Silbereisen (left) and his colleague Dieter-Thomas Heck hosting the gala concerts of German hits
Mom was the first manager
While studying at the private School of Musical, Fischer's mother came across her daughter's six-song demo CD. She made copies and secretly sent them to various recording studios to see how the professionals reacted. A week later, 19-year-old Elena Fischer received a call from renowned music manager Uwe Kanthak ), which, according to her confession, carried her into the world of the hit.
The debut on the big stage, Elena recalls, took place on May 14, 2005 in the ZDF program, the second national television channel. It was a duet with singer and TV presenter Florian Silbereisen. The performance, accompanied by dancers from the German Television Ballet, lasted seven minutes. As Elena says, she "still trembles" when she remembers this premiere.
For Lena, it was an unforgettable experience - a huge auditorium, TV cameras, and she, like Thumbelina - a small fragile girl on a huge stage next to the stars.
Gold and platinum discs
Immediately after the performance, Florian Silbereisen invited Elena Fischer to take part in his own tour. The 50 days that they spent together, performing in different cities of Germany, became the beginning of the birth of a new star of the German hit.
Elena's work is helped by the experience gained in musicals. It is not easy for many performers to pronounce complex words and constructions clearly in the "non-song", unlike English, German, and even so that the voice remains melodic and soft.
First, the young singer recorded two studio compositions with her current composer and producer Jean Frankfurter, and in 2006 the first album of Elena Fischer was released. To date, the singer has released 9 platinum and 17 gold albums in Germany and Austria. The number of CDs and DVDs sold with her songs has exceeded the two million mark.
Elena Fisher dreams of giving concerts in Russia
Elena Fisher dreams of concerts in Russia
Elena Fisher is one of the youngest performers in the hit genre, which is more popular with older people. She could sing about love for teenagers and, for sure, would win their hearts too. But lovers of hits, according to Elena, are a more faithful audience.
The singer adds that she fell in love with the German stage with all her heart, but this does not mean that she does not perform songs in English or Russian at her solo concerts. Moreover, Fischer dreams of one day giving concerts in Russia, because, according to her confession, she loves this country with all her heart.
“My family has a lot to do with Russia,” Lena emphasizes, “and I would like to believe that my songs will find a response in the hearts of people who live not only in Siberia, where I come from, but also in St. Petersburg and Moscow.”
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