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Stones in the Road
[video]
Nancy Wood - Imagine That (1981)
Renate Hildebrandt
aka
Nancy Wood (January 23, 1945 - February 18, 1991)
Renate Hildebrandt
(née Poggensee) aka
Nancy Wood
aka
Renate Kern
aka
Nathalie de Navarre
was the daughter of rocket engineer Karl Poggensee and café pianist Gertrud. Renate had an older sister.
As a scientist and inventor her father helped develop the V-2 rockets.
Renate described her family home as a
"test site with a small wooden house"
.
During one of his experiments her father blew up their small property.
From then on he no longer had much say in the family. ☺
Karl Poggensee (1909–1980)
During a student exchange in the USA in 1962, her relationships with TV and radio led her to abandon her original plan to become a teacher and pursue a career as a musician (vocals, piano, guitar).
In 1974, Renate married the sound engineer Klaus-Dieter Hildebrandt. The couple founded their own publishing company and set up a studio in their house, where Roger Whittaker, among others, recorded their music.
"I'm now just a cook, chambermaid, office worker and broom,"
she said resignedly at that time.
In the 1980s, she tried to make a comeback. The song
"Imagine That"
(1981) even made it into the US charts, but didn't give her German career new impetus. For ten more years she struggled from single to single, performed on provincial stages and ferries, and went on a tour of the former GDR.
From the end of the 1980s she began to suffer increasingly from depression.
Renate committed suicide on February 18, 1991.
She was buried as Renate Hildebrandt in the new cemetery in Rostock.
On her gravestone is the title of one of her biggest hits:
"Alle Blumen brauchen Sonne"
(All Flowers need Sun).
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renate_Kern
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576517302667
https://www.weser-kurier.de/stadt-delmenhorst/das-persoenliche-glueck-nie-erreicht-doc7e3g1zdisza162ln0hh9
Alle Blumen brauchen Sonne 🌻🌞🌹 All Flowers need Sun (1970)
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