Stefanie Anke Hertel (born 25 July 1979 in

Oelsnitz, Vogtland Oelsnitz (; hsb, Wolešnica) is a town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the White Elster river, south of Plauen and southwest of Zwickau Zwickau (; is, with around 87,500 inhabitants (2020), the fourth-l ...

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) is a German singer of

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, popular folk music,

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, television presenter, and former

yodeler Yodeling (also jodeling) is a form of singing which involves repeated and rapid changes of pitch between the low-pitch chest register (or "chest voice") and the high-pitch head register or falsetto. The English word ''yodel'' is derived from ...

. Hertel has won numerous prizes as a performer; her career began at the age of four when she appeared with her father

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. She was six when she made her television debut with a song about a teddy bear, ''Ich wünsch' mir einen kleinen Teddybär'' ("I wish me a little teddy bear"). In 1992, she won the

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, which

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er Stefan Mross had won in 1989 with ''Heimwehmelodie'', with the song ''Über jedes Bacherl geht a Brückerl'', having finished fifth the previous year with ''So a Stückerl heile Welt''. In 1995, she competed together with Stefan Mross in the Grand Prix der Volksmusik with the song ''Ein Lied für jeden Sonnenstrahl'', finishing second.

Marriages

Hertel and Stefan Mross began dating in December 1993 and married on 6 September 2006. They separated in September 2011, and the divorce was finalised on 8 December 2012. They have a daughter together, Johanna Mross (born 7 October 2001). On 19 April 2014, she married Austrian musician Leopold "Lanny" Lanner (formerly known professionally as Lanny Isis).

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* 1979 births Living people People from Oelsnitz, Vogtland Yodelers German folk singers 21st-century German women singers {{Germany-singer-stub