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Helene Fischer is a German schlager singer. Since her debut in 2005, she has won numerous awards, including 17 Echo awards, four "Die Krone der Volksmusik" awards, and three Bambi awards. She has sold at least 18 million records. In June 2014, her multi-platinum 2013 album Farbenspiel became the most downloaded album ever by a German artist and is the sixth-best-selling album of all time in Germany. Her signature song "Atemlos durch die Nacht" was the best-selling song in Germany in 2014. She has had the best-selling album of the year in Germany five times: in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2018. She ranked No. 8 on Forbes' list of "The World's Highest-Paid Women in Music 2018," earning US$ 32 million. Fischer has been referred to as the "Queen of Schlager". |
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Helene Fischer was born in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, former Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, to Pyotr and Marina Fischer. Her father worked as a physical education teacher, and her mother was an engineer. Her paternal grandparents were Black Sea Germans who were among those sent to forced settlements in Kazakhstan and Siberia. In 1988, at the age of three-and-a-half, she immigrated with her parents and her six-year-old sister to Wöllstein, West Germany.
After graduating from high school, Fischer attended the Frankfurt Stage & Musical School for three years, where she studied singing and acting. During this time, she performed on stage at the Staatstheater Darmstadt, as well as at the Volkstheater Frankfurt.
Fischer's debut on stage occurred on 14 May 2005, in a program by the TV channel ARD. It was a duet with schlager singer Florian Silbereisen. The two later became a couple.
She has won 17 Echo awards, the "Goldene Henne" award seven times, and the "Krone der Volksmusik" prize four times. All her albums and DVDs have achieved multiple gold and double platinum certifications. Her songs, with their stories of the everyday worries and woes of home-loving folks, are lyrically close to what could be called "country music," although musically quite different.
Her fanbase extends beyond Germany, Austria, and Switzerland to Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, the United Kingdom, Finland, and New Zealand.
She released her first English album, The English Ones, on 7 June 2010. The album was produced by Jean Frankfurter (Erich Ließmann), a German producer, composer, and arranger. On singing in English, Fischer commented: "I have always dreamed of singing my songs in another language. English is the language of country, the music that we call Schlager. Language is a tool, but it is important that what you sing comes from the heart – and that is what this album is about."
Fischer performed at the SnowpenAir 2022 Music Festival in Grindelwald Terminal in the Switzerland Alps. There, she sang the Marius Müller-Westernhagen song Freiheit as her response to the most recent Russian invasion of Ukraine and another instance of forced resettlement by Russia. Fischer wore a blue and yellow ribbon in solidarity with Ukraine, tearfully introducing the song by describing the sorrow experienced by Ukrainian families being resettled and torn apart by the war. She performed the song with blue and yellow highlights on the stage.
Fischer 過去通常避免發表政治言論。然而，她在接受《明星》（Stern）雜誌採訪時，明確表達了對歧視、種族主義、仇恨和暴力的反對。她將這些現象形容為社會的毒素，並呼籲捍衛民主價值；她也敦促人們透過參與選舉來抵制極端主義，並勇敢對抗反民主勢力的恐嚇。
她的言論在粉絲群中引發了爭議，尤其是在德國極右翼政黨「德國選擇黨」（AfD）的疑似支持者中；這些人隨後在她的Instagram貼文下發布了仇恨言論，並對她進行了抨擊。另一方面，她也因其反對種族主義和反民主宣傳的鮮明立場而獲得了支持。有些用戶稱讚她敢於公開表態、反對極右派；也有人表示，正是因為她反對仇恨與不寬容，他們才成為了她的新粉絲。Fischer 並非唯一一位在《明星週刊》（Stern）上公開發表見解的名人。