Heintje Davids

Hendrika David (Rotterdam, 13 February 1888 – Naarden, 14 February 1975) was a Dutch cabaret artist who from 1907 until her death under the name Henriette Davids made a career as a singer and wisecracking jokes-maker. She was best known under the name Heintje Davids.

To her best known songs include: Zandvoort to the sea, Turning and because I so much love you (a duet with Sylvain Poons).

After her official farewell in 1954, Heintje Davids soon her comeback. She continued to act well into the 1960s, in which they regularly announced that this is really the last time was. In the end was the phenomenon of the heintjedavidseffect and come back each time to say goodbye[1]  called. ==Life Course[ Edit] == Heintje Davids was the youngest Scion of a simple family. Her father David Levie was comedian and publican and her mother Francina Tafesse was waitress. Both her brothers Louis and Rika Hillary as her sister acted as the Family-theater Davids and used this experience as a springboard for a theatre career. Heintje-small, thick and endowed with a kolderiek-like voice-was found to be unsuitable by her parents to take part in the family theater. Convinced of their own abilities she made from 1907 itself career as a comic revue singer. From 1910 she performed along with her brother Louis on Louis went on the cabaret after focus, the duo fell apart. Brother Louis has always criticised the career of sister Heintje.

In 1914, married Heintje Davids with the journalist-writer Philip Pinkhof theatertekst.

Until the Second World War, in the Hollandsche Schouwburg, she performed in various revues[2]. She also worked in the feature film version of the folk musical De Jantjes(1934). In september 1942, they also had to go into hiding with her husband and she was hiding in various places. She is the only one of the Jewish family that survived the war: Rika Hillary and David died in German concentration camps; Louis is just before the outbreak of war already died.

Heintje Davids remained after the liberation the repertoire before the war to spread. Rotterdam City Council donated her In 1948 in recognition of the merits of the family Theatre David life, a ring that has since become known as the Louis Davids ring. During her official farewell in 1954 gave them this ring by Wim Kanto comedian, who in turn handed it over to him in 1976 singer Herman van Veen.

When her husband died shortly after her retirement from the stage, Heintje Davids made her now legendary comeback. ==Discography (selection)[ Edit] == ==Street Name<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Zutphen is in the "women neighborhood" in the District of Leesten a square named after her: Heintje Davids square. In Lead is a street in the district Salako named in her honor: Heintje Davidsweg. In Zaandam is in the District of Wester watering a street named in her honor: Heintje Davidspad.
 * 1922-what Attracts A Woman (from the Revue ' cut back if you satisfy her; ')/pick 78rpm12 something with your Family To Never-"single-VOX-H 10001
 * 1922-Da kommt das Militär/O Jacobs Marie (With Kees Pruis)-78rpm12 "single-VOX-H 10002
 * 1934-Run/because I love you so much-78rpm10 "single-CINETONE-?
 * 1954-Farewell sounds, sounds, volume 2-part 1/Farewell 78rpm10 "single-PHILIPS-P 17324 H
 * 1959-Heintje In St. Germain Des Prés: because I love you so much + 't Is True (C'est Vrai)/Monologue {text: Tom M} + Run-7 "EP-HIS master's VOICE-7 EGH 184
 * 1965-Adieu/something's not right There-7 "single-FRANKLIN d. ROOSEVELT-R 1002
 * 1968-There Is only One Carré/To Carré-7 "single-POLYDOR-S 1268
 * 1968-My Last Plate-12 "LP-DELTA-DKS 1004
 * 1975-Her very last Plate-12 "LP-NEGRAM-NR 108