Romy Haag is a Dutch dancer, singer, actress and former nightclub manager.
Early life
When she was 13, Romy Haag and her family joined the circus. She started her career at the renowned Circus Strassburger as a children's clown. At age 16, she moved to Paris with the trapeze artists from the circus and subsequently debuted at the Parisian nightclub Alcazar as a cabaret dancer.
Career
In 1972, an American show manager offered Haag a tour booking and she performed her show "Berlin Chanson" at Fire Island, in Long Island and Atlantic City. There she met and fell in love with a street musician from Berlin and decided to move back to Europe to live in the German capital with him. In 1974, at age 26, she opened her own cabaret, Chez Romy Haag, in Berlin-Schöneberg. The venue became very successful and had many notable visitors including: Udo Lindenberg, Zizi Jeanmaire, Patricia Highsmith, Bryan Ferry, Tina Turner, Horst Buchholz, Grace Jones, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Iggy Pop, Freddie Mercury, Lou Reed and Mick Jagger, whom she first met in 1973. In 1976 Haag and David Bowie began a romantic relationship; Bowie subsequently moved to Berlin and completed his first German tour. Her first single “Liege-Samba“ appeared in 1977, with Udo Lindenberg contributing the lyrics and music. She went on tour with Lindenberg and in the following year released her single “Superparadise”. In 1979 the New Yorker Profile Gallery profiled her in a photo tribute. In 1981 her first LP album “So bin ich”, with Klaus Hoffmann contributing the lyrics, was released. After nine years, in 1983, she sold her night club to travel the world. Returning to Germany in 1986, she began touring Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the US with her “City in the Night” show. During this time, the mid 1980s, Haag was featured in the video installation, Queen Zero an art performance in the New York Museum of Modern Art. In 1999 her autobiography, Eine Frau und mehr, was published. In it Haag describes her life, the art scene in the US and Berlin in the 1970s. In 2010 she had a role as a receptionist in the internetsoap operaDoc Love playing alongside :de:Dieter Bach|Dieter Bach, :de:Oliver Bender|Oliver Bender and :de:Ellenie Salvo González|Ellenie Salvo González. During her career, she performed with the following musicians: Conny Göckel, Alexander Kraut, Lutz Woite, Friedel Schwarz, Erik Küppers, Blacky Schwarz, Roland Götz, Hansi Wallbaum, Uli Moritz, Eberhardt Fortmann. She has had roles in 26 films including: "Plastikfieber", "Zum Beispiel Otto Spalt“, "Die Hamburger Krankheit" and "Mascara" with Charlotte Rampling. She released 17 stylistically unique albums, like "Flugblatt" or the musical "Tell!".
