Name Frl. Menke Years active 1982–present Role Musical Artist | Record label Polydor Records Website www.frlmenke.de Parents Joe Menke, Karin Menke | |
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Born November 4, 1960 (age 64) ( 1960-11-04 ) Albums Ich will's gefahrlich, Hohe Berge, Hohe Berge (feat. Martin von Auen), Frl. Menke, Einwandfrei Siblings Alexander Menke, Thomas Menke Similar People Markus, Gabriele Tiedemann, Joachim Witt, Peter Schilling, Ina Deter | ||
Fräulein Menke Hohe Berge 1982
Frl. Menke (born November 4, 1960 as Franziska Menke in Germany) was a star of the Neue Deutsche Welle genre of German popular music in the early 1980s. Menke is best known for her hit single "Hohe Berge" (High Mountains), which was a Top 10 hit in the German single charts in 1982 and has sold more than 2.5 million copies to date.
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- Frulein Menke Hohe Berge 1982
- Frl menke tretboot in seenot
- Music career
- Trivia
- Chart Information
- Albums
- Singles
- References
Frl menke tretboot in seenot
Music career
Franziska Menke is the daughter of the German songwriter, producer and publisher Joe Menke. Her debut single "Hohe Berge" became an instant success in 1982 and was one of the first songs of the Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW) popular music movement that became hugely popular in Germany in the early 1980s. Menke was one of very few female artists to succeed in the genre.
Menke's career peaked from 1982-1984 along with Neue Deutsche Welle, when she had three hit singles and released a self-titled album. She sold more than three million records during 1982 and 1983.
Menke gave birth to two children at the end of the 1980s and composed various jingles for radio stations and advertisement campaigns. In 1992 she released her second album "Ich Will's Gefährlich" with limited success.
She has re-recorded or remixed her most successful singles. In 1990 she was remixed by the German band Masterboy and in 1994 she recorded two techno music versions of "Hohe Berge" and "Tretboot in Seenot." She did another version of "Hohe Berge" for her 2005 album "Einwandfrei" and recorded an industrial version with German band "The Seven Seals" in 2007.
Trivia
Chart Information
"Hohe Berge" and "Tretboot in Seenot" still receive frequent airplay on German radio and television.