Anna German
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Anna Yevgenyevna German (Russian: Анна Евгеньевна Герман) February 14, 1936 Urgench, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | August 25, 1982 (aged 46) Warsaw, Poland |
| Occupation | singer |
| Years active | 1960–1982 |
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Anna Wiktoria German (February 14, 1936 – August 25, 1982) was during her lifetime known as a Polish singer and was immensely popular in Poland and in the Soviet Union in 1960s-1970s. She released over a dozen music albums with songs in Polish, as well as several albums with Russian repertoire.
Anna German was a Polish and Russian-language singer of a Russia-German family. She was born in Urgench, a city with a population of 22,000 in northwestern Uzbekistan in Central Asia, then Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union. Her mother, Irma Martens, was the descendant of Plautdietsch-speaking Mennonites invited to Russia by Catherine II. Her accountant father, Eugen (Eugeniusz) Hörmann (in Russian, Герман), was also of a Russia-German pastor family and born during travel in Łódź (Czarist Russian Empire) now Poland. Already Eugen Hörmann's father, Anna's grandfather, Friedrich Hörmann, who had studied theology at Lodz, was in 1929 incarcerated in Gulag Plesetzk by Communists for being a priest, where he died. In 1937 during the NKVD's anti-German operation Eugen Hörmann was arrested in Urgench on false charges of spying, and executed (officially, sentenced to ten years in prison). Thereafter, Anna and her mother and grandmother survived in the Kemerovo Region, Tashkent, and later in the Kyrgyz and Kazakh SSR.
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