Fate of famous people: Anna Herman: a long echo of love

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She is a Soviet star, a Polish singer, a German by birth, born in Uzbekistan. Is not it an absolutely incredible cocktail? However, if you look into the facts of the biography of Anna Herman, much is explained ...

Fate of the Kind

Anne-Victoria's mother Herman Irma Baker was the great-granddaughter of the Russified Germans who moved to the Russian Empire back in the time of Catherine II. Anna's father Eugen German was also a descendant of German immigrants, only he was born in Poland. During the years of repression, Anna's father was arrested, shot, subsequently rehabilitated posthumously. No luck to her brothers. The elder died in Stalin's camps, the youngest died from a fatal disease, before two years. All these events knocked Anna's mother out of the rut, in fright she escaped with her daughter first to Kyrgyzstan, then to Kazakhstan. Soon I got acquainted with a Polish officer, for whom I married and moved with my daughter to a permanent place of residence in Poland.

After school, Anna went to study at Wroclaw University on a geologist. There, participating in student amateur performances, decided to become a singer. Her first work was in the student theater, followed by the Wroclaw Estrada, examinations and rapid professional recognition. Having received support in the form of a government scholarship, Anna went to study singing in the capital of Italy - Rome. This was followed by a second prize at the international singing festival, a tour in Poland and abroad.

Learning to live again

In the summer of 1960, Anna met her future husband. The acquaintance happened quite prosaically - on the beach. Anna rested with friends, and young engineer Zbignev, who arrived in the city on a business trip, got out early and decided to go for a swim. However, on the beach the young man realized that he needed to put things somewhere. He noticed a beautiful girl with honest eyes and asked her to look after things. The conversation began. Anna told an unfamiliar sympathizer that she was a beginning singer, and promised to invite him to another performance.
She kept her word and after a while called Zbigniew with an invitation. And he only expected this: at first glance, he was fascinated by Anna, who rushed to the concert across the country floor. So began their romance.

A happy fairy tale almost broke off on August 27, 1967, when Anna was on tour in Italy. That day she got in the car to her producer. He sat behind the wheel, but, unable to fight fatigue, fell asleep. At a tremendous speed, the car crashed into the concrete fence ...

Unlike his companion, who escaped with a couple of fractures of the arm and leg, Anna flew out onto the road through the windshield. She was carried away so far that the doctors who arrived by ambulances to the scene of the accident did not immediately find it. The girl received numerous fractures and bruises of internal organs. She did not regain consciousness for a week. And after, chained in a cast, spent 6 months in a hospital bed.

She had to learn how to do simple movements again. Zbignev was with her all this time. He dedicated Anna every free moment, and at night she took her out of the hospital outside the city to teach her to walk, hiding from prying eyes.

Contrary to everything

Three years after the accident, Anna was able to return to the stage. And after another 2 years, Anna and Zbignev got married - before the tragedy, they simply did not have time to do it. At 39, Anna learned that she was pregnant. Doctors persuaded her to abandon the child - doubted that the consequences of the accident would allow him to endure it. She refused. Pregnancy was not easy. But Anna worked, acted. November 27, 1975 she gave birth to a son. And then I learned that I had cancer.

The last tour

She continued to perform. Only occasionally she put on sunglasses at the concert to hide the tears from the audience caused by physical suffering. Once, after finishing her performance in the Moscow "Luzhniki", Anna could not leave the stage on her own due to an exacerbation of thrombophlebitis. Having recovered herself in the hospital, the singer again went on tour - to distant Australia. But they were not destined to take place. The disease worsened, Anna was forced to return home for treatment. And she did not go to the stage any more.

Her last song was "Echo of Love". During the recording, the orchestra could not tune in to the game for a long time. The musicians were crying, seeing the singer lose her strength and sing, as if she was saying goodbye to life.

Anna Herman died in Poland on August 25, 1982 from a sarcoma. Her grave is at the Calvinist Cemetery in Warsaw.