Re-Release „Pianofrau live“ 2010 

Believe Digital releases the album "Pianofrau live" (“Pianowoman live”) of german-speaking song poet Bettina Hirschberg as a mp3 download. It has not been available for some years. The singer/songwriter and pianist made a name to herself as an expressive stage artist by numerous tours and TV appearances. During the nineties she tied up a large audience only by her piano playing, her voice, her compositions and moderations. People felt enthusiastic about this unconventional blend of german lyrics and elements of blues, rock and classical music .
In 1992 Bettina Hirschbergs Debut album "In manchen Nächten" ("In Certain Nights") was released followed by the album "Pianowoman” 1996 which consists exclusively of live recordings featuring well known solo cellist Wolfram Huschke on several tracks. 
The unique spirit of her compositions, her lyrics, her vocal interpretations and the insistent power of her piano style cannot be easily put in order. The range of comparisons drawn in the media goes from Lotte Lenya, Marlene Dietrich, from Chi Coltrane to Ina Deter, Konstantin Wecker up to Randy Newman, Tori Amos and Patricia Kaas.
Highlights of Bettina Hirschbergs two albums are her settings of the so-called "burned poets" whose works became victim to the Nazis book burnings in 1933 (e. g. poems of Theodor Kramer, Mascha Kaléko, Ferdinand Hardekopf, Hans Sahl,  Louis Fürnberg)". But also Gottfried Benn, Ingeborg Bachmann, von Platen belong to the writers of Bettina's choice setting them to music in a way as if Franz Schubert played the Blues.
She herself describes her lyrics as a "decent to the cellar bar of the soul". She knows how to smoothly sing the rather brittle German language without bluring its edges She sings of fears and longing, of the quest for sense and self-discovery, but never in an ivory-tower state of mind: The social and political sphere is mirrored in her songs just like a good deal of personal experience. Not at least because of this, critics praise Bettinas musical work as the “rebirth of the german chanson".

1986		First public appearances, among others in the famous Mainzer Cabaret "House 		of  Commons"; introduced by famous satirist and author Hanns Dieter Hüsch

1987 		WDR television "springboard"
 
1988		Art Award of the German State of Baden-Württemberg. Quotation from the 
		eulogy: "In our opinion this is art, and no minor one, even if we 			allocate the “Cabaret Art Award." Start of numerous tours through Germany, 		Austria and Switzerland.
 
1989 to 1998 	Concerttours and CD publications, appearances on TV, e.g. on the TV-magazin 
		"Aspekte" on german channel ZDF,
		Portrait by Lutz Neumann "Bettina", among others with Konstantin Wecker, 		Karl Krolow. "III after 9 "NDR talkshow," Jux und  Dallerei ", SAT 1, 			"Unterhaltung am Nachmittag", WDR, (interview and songs live, presented 		by Harald Schmidt), Clip from the Nürnberg "Barden Treffen", a huge 		festival in Nürnberg, in the national TV-news show “Tagesschau”; 			various radio interviews, appearances on radio and TV, e. g. "Klassik, Pop, 		etc.” (Deutsche Welle, international german broadcaster).

1992		Album "In manchen Nächten” (“In Certain Nights") at phonogram/mercury 		CD)

1996		Album "Pianofrau" (live recording)

1997		A tiny but picturesque role (“ Woman at the piano "") in
		"Comedian" Harmonists”, a film by Joseph Vilsmaier	
		which gained international attention

1998 up to 2014 	no public concerts; lives in Bavaria

2010: 		Mp3-Download-Contract „Pianofrau live“ (worldwide);
		company: BELIEVE DIGITAL

2015		public concerts