Singer and actress Angelika Mann is useless | EUROtoday

The singer and actress Angelika Mann is useless. The Berlin artist, who started her profession within the GDR, died on Wednesday on the age of 76, as her household confirmed to the German Press Agency.

Mann – who was additionally referred to as “the Lütte” due to her peak of 1.49 meters – was on stage for greater than half a century, additionally as a cabaret artist and presenter.

Angelika Mann grew to become well-known within the GDR

Music performed an essential function for the Berlin native early on. As a toddler she practiced the piano for as much as eight hours a day, and as an adolescent she listened to Bach and the Beatles. But after graduating from faculty, the physician’s daughter initially accomplished an apprenticeship in a pharmacy. As she herself wrote, she cherished contact with the viewers. During her lunch break she sang the most recent hits to her colleagues.

Angelika Mann grew to become recognized to a wider viewers within the GDR within the Seventies, amongst different issues, via her collaboration with the songwriter Reinhard Lakomy and appearances on tv. Angelika Mann’s unmistakable voice could be heard on Lakomy’s million-selling youngsters’s document “Traumzauberbaum”. But she additionally sang with Manfred Krug and the jazz singer Uschi Brüning.

It shortly gained a foothold within the West

In the mid-Eighties she left the GDR with an utility to go away the nation and continued her profession in West Berlin. Mann shortly gained a foothold within the West. For instance, she was acclaimed on the Theater des Westens as Lucy within the Threepenny Opera. After the autumn of the Berlin Wall, the artist was completely happy to return to East Germany – and to many phases there.

Mann labored in movie, tv and theater and till lately was primarily current on musical and theater phases.

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