Melodrama breaks TV records
PR dla Zagranicy
Veronika Joy
22.03.2013 15:15
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A report by Michal Kubicki
A television series about the life of Anna German, well-known vocalist in Eastern Europe, breaks all the popularity records in Poland and Russia.
A fragment of the poster from the series "Anna German" Photo courtesy of promotional materials and polskieradio.pl
The Russian-Ukrainian-Polish television series on the life of Anna German, the Polish-Russian singer of German-Dutch orgin, was shown in Russia last year and attracted an audience of 22 million every week. In Poland now, it has an audience of almost 8 million, in addition to a bestselling book.
"Incredible voice. She had a particular capacity that was something natural, " said cultural journalist Jerzy Kisielewski.
The singer was born in present-day Uzbekistan, then the Soviet Union. Her mother was a descendant of Low German-speaking Mennonites and her father, an accountant of German origin, was executed by Stalin’s secret police NKVD when Anna was a small girl. Anna’s mother settled in Poland in the mid-1960s after remarrying a Polish army officer.
Anna German survived a serious car crash in Italy, made a stage come-back, gave birth to a son at 36 and died from bone cancer in 1982 at the age of 46.
Michal Kubicki reports.