Helga Wille
Helga Valeska Wille was a German vocal and schlager singer born on December 5, 1913, in Berlin. She gained recognition as a member of the singing ensemble Die Nicolets, which she founded in the mid-1940s. The group achieved significant success with the song "Mr. Moneymaker" in 1949. After the group disbanded, Wille moved to Cologne in 1961, where she lived until her death on June 13, 1992. Her final resting place is at the Melatenfriedhof in Cologne-Lindenthal.
Wille was the fourth child of a medical officer and demonstrated her singing talent from a young age. In 1939, she met and married officer Peter Otto Wieland in Prague, with whom she had two children, Michael (born 1941) and Monika (born 1943), before their divorce in 1944. Her sister, Erika Jansen, was a writer known for publishing romance novels under the pseudonym Erika Wieden.
Helga Wille's discography includes several recordings from the late 1930s to the early 1940s, such as "Manhattan-Cocktail" and "Sie hören New York" with Oskar Jerochnik, and "Die kleine Stadt will schlafen geh'n" with the Telefunken-Revue-Orchester. Her song "Woven Kann Der Landser Denn Schon Träumen" was featured in the 2023 Netflix film "Blood & Gold."