Adrienne Haan (born April 7, 1978) is a German-Luxembourgish actress, singer, writer and producer who has appeared in theatre,

cabaret Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, casino, hotel, restaurant, or nightclub with a stage for performances. The audience, often dining or drinking, ...

and concert.

Background

Adrienne Catherine Haan was born in

Essen Essen () is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as ...

West Germany West Germany was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. It is sometimes known as the Bonn Republi ...

on April 7, 1978. She holds dual citizenship in Germany and Luxembourg and she is a permanent resident of the United States of America. Her moniker is "Chanteuse Internationale".

Education

Haan graduated from

American Academy of Dramatic Arts The American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA) is a Private college, private drama school with two locations, one in New York City and one in Los Angeles. The academy offers an associate degree in occupational studies and teaches drama and related ...

in 1999. In 2019, she received her master's degree in Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching from St. Mary's University in London (Twickenham), England. She also attended courses at The

Juilliard School The Juilliard School ( ) is a Private university, private performing arts music school, conservatory in New York City. Founded by Frank Damrosch as the Institute of Musical Art in 1905, the school later added dance and drama programs and became ...

in New York City and at the Cologne School of Music and Dance.

Career

Haan is an actress and singer who specializes in music of the 1920s and 30s, particularly the music of the

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period and the music of

Kurt Weill Kurt Julian Weill (; ; March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for hi ...

. Since 1999, she has performed in cabarets and on concert stages in the

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and

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where is known for historically accurate renditions of songs in English, German, Luxembourgish, Swedish, French, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Yiddish, Turkish, Armenian, Ukrainian, Mandarin and Zulu. In 2019, she made her debut in

, where she performed for the European Delegation in

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2019 and a performance with her pianist at the Palais de France in

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where she sang the tribute to

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, "Yiğidim Aslanım". In 2019, she made her first tour of China, performing her show Broadway Rock Hall. Her

Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall ( ) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It is at 881 Seventh Avenue (Manhattan), Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between 56th Street (Manhattan), 56th and 57th Street (Manhattan), 57t ...

debut entitled Tehorah celebrated the 50th anniversary of German-Israeli diplomatic relations with an encore performance in Washington DC and at Ravinia. She returned to Carnegie Hall with Tehorah in May 2023. Haan has also performed Tehorah for the

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(IHRA) under patronage of his Royal Highness, the

Grand Duke of Luxembourg The Grand Duke of Luxembourg is the head of state of Luxembourg. Luxembourg has been a grand duchy since 15 March 1815, when it was created from territory of the former Duchy of Luxembourg. It was in personal union with the United Kingdom of ...

at the theater in Esch/Alzette, Luxembourg. She also performed at the Jewish Festival Warszawa Singera in Warsaw at the Nowy Teatr in

Łódź Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located south-west of Warsaw. Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's List of cities and towns in Polan ...

, Poland and at the White Synagogue in Wrocaw, Poland under the patronage of the Ambassador of the

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France on the south. Its capital and most populous city, Luxembourg ...

to the Republic of

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, Conrad Bruch. She has performed in the US Embassy of Luxembourg and was featured in a 6 city tour of Israel with the Netanya Orchestra. She has performed at cabarets in New York City including Cafe Sabarsky, 54 Below,

Joe's Pub Joe's Pub, one of the six performance spaces within The Public Theater, is a music venue and restaurant that hosts live performances across genres and arts, ranging from cabaret to modern dance to world music. It is located at 425 Lafayette Str ...

where she performed her show Voluptuous Weimar with Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks and the Metropolitan Room as well as the Triad Theatre in

New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...

where she is artist in residence. Her additional shows include Cabaret Français which she performed at the Embassy of Luxembourg Washington DC in March 2019, her

Soirée, featuring the

Dan Levinson Daniel A. Levinson (born July 8, 1965) is an American jazz clarinetist, saxophone, saxophonist, and bandleader. He is best known for his mastery of the jazz styles of the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s. Career Born in Los Angeles County, California, Le ...

Sextet and her Weimar Berlin soirée Berlin, Mon Amour featuring French singer/dancer Magali Dahan. In New Mexico, she performed as part of the Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival. In 2022, Adrienne was hired by the

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of the International

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at the

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in New York, to musically represent the

during the 77th

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of the

in NY. She is the first and only Luxembourg artist so far to receive this honor. Adrienne Haan - Europe Day 2019 Istanbul

Her theater and musical productions include lead roles in

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, Evita,

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Cabaret Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, casino, hotel, restaurant, or nightclub with a stage for performances. The audience, often dining or drinking, ...

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, King Henry VI, and Richard III. Her cabaret show, ''The Streets of Berlin'', is based on Berlin, mon amour, her most recent CD which was released in both German and English in 2010. Both the show and the recording include works by

Mischa Spoliansky Mischa Spoliansky (28 December 1898 – 28 June 1985) was a Russian-born composer who made his name writing cabaret and revue songs in the Weimar Republic of the 1920s and early 1930s. He was forced to emigrate to London in 1933 when Hitler ro ...

, and

Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a p ...

arranged for voice, big band and string quartet by Heinz Walter Florin. Her earlier CDs include music by

Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End theatre, West End and on Broadway theatre, Broad ...

and

Claude-Michel Schönberg Claude-Michel Schönberg (born 6 July 1944, in Vannes) is a French record producer, actor, singer, songwriter, and musical theatre composer, best known for his collaborations with lyricist Alain Boublil. Major works include '' La Révolution Fr ...

. In Europe, she has appeared on the "Westdeutscher Rundfunk" Television Channel. Her latest albums Tehorah in German, Yiddish and Hebrew as well as her rock tribute to the French Chanson Rock Le Cabaret! were both published during the

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and have received critical acclaim. In New York City Haan serves on the International Advisory Board of the

Duke Ellington Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American Jazz piano, jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous Big band, jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life. Born and raised in Washington, D ...

Center for the Arts. Since 2021, Adrienne has been a member of the Dramatist Guild of the United States of America. She also serves on the honorary entertainment board of the "Survivor Mitzvah Project" helping

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Survivors in Eastern Europe to a better quality of living. Adrienne Haan United Nations 2022

Personal life

In 2007, Haan married Klaus Liever. Her father, Jean Joseph Haan, is a

neurologist Neurology (from , "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous system, which comprises the brain, the ...

, and her mother worked as a medical technical assistant. She has one brother.

Discography

* 2020: ''Tehorah'' Villa Artis, Königswinter, Germany * 2020: ''Rock Le Cabaret!'' Studio der Welt, Cologne, Germany * 2010: ''Berlin, Mon Amour'' Berlinica * 2006: ''I Could Have Danced All Night'' Reader's Digest * 2003: ''Born to Entertain: Hansahaus Studios in Bonn'' (Germany)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Haan, Adrienne Alumni of St Mary's University, Twickenham 1978 births Living people American Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni 21st-century German actresses German cabaret singers German musical theatre actresses 21st-century American women singers 21st-century American singers Actresses from Essen