Hanne Haller Biography
Hanne Haller was a German pop singer, composer, writer, producer, and sound engineer. Hanne Haller grew up in the province of Schleswig-Holstein. Her mother was an opera singer, her father a banker. While in school she played drums for “The Rooks” in the town of Ronnenberg near Hannover. After completing school in 1968, she went on to study athletics, but had to give that up due to a serious illness.
Hanne Haller History
Haller learned the art of being a sound engineer in Munich . She worked in many areas of the business. She began to compose music by the end of the 1970s. She started under the pseudonym “Hansi Echer”. Singer Karel Gott in 1978 performed her song “Where the Wind Blows the Leaves” (“Wohin der Wind die Blätter weht”). Before that she had already composed the song “60 Years and Not a Bit More” (“60 Jahre und kein bisschen weise”) for the actor/singer Curd Jürgens to along with his biography. After a few more singles, in 1979 she had the chance to sing before a wider audience.
She took the song “Goodbye, Chérie” to the German qualification of the Eurovision Song Contest and managed a seventh-place finish. After that she made more recordings, mostly with Bernd Meinunger writing the lyrics. Their song “Samstag Abend” made it to number 11 on the German musical charts. Together with Meinunger in 1982 she founded their own musical publishing house. Haller produced songs in her own recording studio. That year, she won her first of many “Golden Tuning Forks” (“Goldene Stimmgabel”, the German version of the Grammy awards).
In 1985, Haller founded the band Wind . She didn’t perform for the group herself, but she composed what has become the group’s signature song, “For All” (“Für alle”). The same year, the song earned Wind a second-place finish in the Eurovision Song Contest. After this success, she wrote songs for Daliah Lavi, Elke Martens, Katja Ebstein, Rex Gildo, Lena Valaitis, Caterina Valente, Jürgen Drews, Ingrid Peters, Wolfgang Fierek, and Milva. She also discovered Rosanna Rocci.
She continued to write, produce and perform throughout the 80s and 90s despite battling breast cancer since the mid-90s. She died on November 15, 2005. After her death, her record company announced that a previously-planned album of religious music (“Wir sind nur Gast auf dieser Welt”/”We Are Only Guests of This World”) would be released.
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Hanne Haller Awards
- German Record Prize, 1983
- Golden Tuning Fork (“Goldene Stimmgabel”) 1989, 1992 und 1997
- Golden Note (“Goldene Note”), 1990
- Golden Record (“Goldene Schallplatte”) for “My Dear Husband” (“Mein lieber Mann”), 1990
Hanne Haller Songs
- Vater unser
- Weil du ein zärtlicher Mann bist
- Samstag Abend
- Mein lieber Mann
- Hallo, lieber Gott
- Starke Frauen weinen heimlich
- Eine Wahnsinns Love Story
- Für immer Du
- Mein Gott was Männer alles tun
- Ich hab’ Dich unheimlich lieb
- Komm doch noch rein auf einen Kaffee
- Bratkartoffeln mit Spiegelei
- Irmchen
- Geh nicht
- Hallo Liebling
- Schatz, ich will ja nicht meckern…
- Ich warte hier unten
- So Long und Good-Bye
- Madonna Maria
- Wir sind nur Gast auf dieser Welt
- Hallo Tag
- Halleluja
- Ja, ich lieb dich
- Trag’ Doch Dein Bett In Die Kneipe
- Ich vermiss’ dich
- Zünde deine Lichter an
- Ich halte durch
- Drei Männer Und Ein Stern
- Zeit für ein bißchen Zärtlichkeit
- Streicheln macht Gänsehaut
- Willkommen im Leben
- Überall ist Bethlehem
Hanne Haller Albums
- Verdammt ehrlich
- Die unvollendeten Lieder
- Gute Nachricht
- Willkommen im Leben
- Mitten im Licht
- Ich Hab’ Sehnsucht
- Für alle Träumer
- Nur das Beste
- Augenblicke
- Hellwach
- Stärker als ich
- Komm ‘Lass’ Uns Miteinander Reden
- Ein Ariola Klassiker – Die schönsten Lieder
- Ungeschminkt
- Ihre Grösten Erfolge
- Die großen Erfolge
- Mein lieber Mann
- Star Festival
- Meisterstücke
- Frieden auf der ganzen Welt
- Ihre größten Erfolge
- 16 romantische Love-Songs
- Wir sind nur Gast auf dieser Welt
- Wie alles begann
- Wilde Jahre