{"id":17483,"date":"2025-11-21T20:12:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musiknerd.org\/unkategorisiert\/inka-bause\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T20:12:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:12:47","slug":"inka-bause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musiknerd.org\/en\/artists\/inka-bause\/","title":{"rendered":"Inka Bause"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Inka Bause<\/strong>, born on November 21, 1968 in Leipzig, is a German pop singer. <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/musiknerd.org\/en\/music-genre\/schlager\/\" title=\"Schlager\">pop singer<\/a><\/span><\/strong>presenter, actress and producer. Her life and career are closely linked to <g id=\"gid_4\"><g id=\"gid_5\"><g id=\"gid_6\">East German music<\/g><\/g><\/g>&#8211; and television landscape. Thanks to her early discovery as a musical talent and her successful career, she has established herself in both the music and television industries.  <\/p>\n\n<p>Growing up as the third daughter of Angret and Arndt Bause, Inka was discovered by talent scouts at an early age. Her father <g id=\"gid_0\">Arndt Bause<\/g> was a respected composer in the GDR who made his mark on the pop music scene. In the mid-1970s, the family moved to Berlin, where Inka continued her musical education. She learned <g id=\"gid_1\"><g id=\"gid_2\"><g id=\"gid_3\">violin<\/g><\/g><\/g> at the Friedrichshain Music School and later became a member of the Stamitz Orchestra. She also studied <g id=\"gid_4\"><g id=\"gid_5\"><g id=\"gid_6\">piano<\/g><\/g><\/g>&#8211; and singing lessons. In 1989, she successfully completed her vocal studies at the renowned Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin.     <\/p>\n\n<p>Her career began in 1984 with a performance in a New Year&#8217;s Eve show, where she wowed the audience for the first time with the song &#8220;Spielverderber&#8221;.\nIn the following years, she was voted young singer of the year several times and received several awards in the GDR television hit parade &#8220;Bong&#8221;.\nHer debut album &#8220;INKA&#8221; was released in 1987, followed by further successful albums and single releases.\nIn addition to her musical career, she built up a second mainstay as a presenter from 1988 and presented the children&#8217;s show &#8220;Talentebude&#8221; together with her future husband Hendrik Bruch.   <\/p>\n\n<p>Inka Bause was not only successful in the GDR, but continued her career in all-German productions after reunification.\nFrom 1996, she also worked as an actress and appeared in various television productions.\nThe 1.78 m tall Inka has a daughter named Anneli, born in 1996, from Bause&#8217;s marriage to the late Hendrik Bruch (1962-2016).  <\/p>\n\n<p>She also celebrated success at the German Schlager Festival and attracted a great deal of attention in the music industry in 2001 with the song &#8220;Florian&#8221;.\nThe song was named summer hit of the year by MDR and earned Inka Bause numerous television appearances. <\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> \n <div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-container brlbs-cmpnt-content-blocker brlbs-cmpnt-with-individual-styles\" data-borlabs-cookie-content-blocker-id=\"youtube-content-blocker\" data-borlabs-cookie-content=\"PGlmcmFtZSB0aXRsZT0iSW5rYSBCYXVzZSAtIEZsb3JpYW4gLSAyMDAxIiB3aWR0aD0iODAwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjYwMCIgc3JjPSJodHRwczovL3d3dy55b3V0dWJlLW5vY29va2llLmNvbS9lbWJlZC93eEQzeEQzaXBMYz9mZWF0dXJlPW9lbWJlZCIgZnJhbWVib3JkZXI9IjAiIGFsbG93PSJhY2NlbGVyb21ldGVyOyBhdXRvcGxheTsgY2xpcGJvYXJkLXdyaXRlOyBlbmNyeXB0ZWQtbWVkaWE7IGd5cm9zY29wZTsgcGljdHVyZS1pbi1waWN0dXJlOyB3ZWItc2hhcmUiIHJlZmVycmVycG9saWN5PSJzdHJpY3Qtb3JpZ2luLXdoZW4tY3Jvc3Mtb3JpZ2luIiBhbGxvd2Z1bGxzY3JlZW4+PC9pZnJhbWU+\"><div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-preset-c brlbs-cmpnt-cb-youtube\"> <div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-thumbnail\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/musiknerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/borlabs-cookie\/1\/yt_wxD3xD3ipLc_hqdefault.jpg')\"><\/div> <div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-main\"> <div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-play-button\"><\/div> <div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-content\"> <p class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-description\">You are currently viewing a placeholder content from <strong>YouTube<\/strong>. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers.<\/p> <a class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-provider-toggle\" href=\"#\" data-borlabs-cookie-show-provider-information role=\"button\">More Information<\/a> <\/div> <div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-buttons\"> <a class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-btn\" href=\"#\" data-borlabs-cookie-unblock role=\"button\">Unblock content<\/a> <a class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-btn\" href=\"#\" data-borlabs-cookie-accept-service role=\"button\" style=\"display: inherit\">Accept required service and unblock content<\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>\n <\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Inka Bause &#8211; Florian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p>After the death of her father in 2003, she took a short break before continuing her career as a singer and presenter. Since 2005, she has been best known as the presenter of the successful RTL documentary soap <g id=\"gid_0\">&#8220;Bauer sucht Frau&#8221;<\/g>, which helped her gain a wide audience. She has also presented various formats on ZDF and MDR and appeared in other entertainment shows such as &#8220;Die 100.000 Euro Show&#8221; and &#8220;Das Supertalent&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n<p>Bause returned musically in 2018 after a long break with the album &#8220;Mit offenen Armen&#8221;.\nThe album, released by Universal Music, was created in close collaboration with her ex-husband Hendrik Bruch and other well-known artists.\nThe album &#8220;Lebenslieder&#8221; was released in 2020, in which she takes a personal look back at her childhood and youth.\nHere, too, she proved her versatility as a co-producer and founded her own record label.   <\/p>\n\n<p>In addition to her musical career, Inka Bause is still active on television.\nShe has hosted the show &#8220;Inkas Abend&#8221; on Schlager Radio since 2020 and has been the face of an online dating platform since 2021.\nShe also took part in the popular show &#8220;The Masked Singer&#8221; in 2023, where she came fifth as &#8220;Toastbrot&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> \n <div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-container brlbs-cmpnt-content-blocker brlbs-cmpnt-with-individual-styles\" data-borlabs-cookie-content-blocker-id=\"youtube-content-blocker\" data-borlabs-cookie-content=\"PGlmcmFtZSB0aXRsZT0iSW5rYSBCYXVzZSAtIEhlcnogaW0gU3Ryb2ggKE9mZml6aWVsbGVzIE11c2lrdmlkZW8pIiB3aWR0aD0iODAwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjQ1MCIgc3JjPSJodHRwczovL3d3dy55b3V0dWJlLW5vY29va2llLmNvbS9lbWJlZC9yOERUM2NJV0hMcz9mZWF0dXJlPW9lbWJlZCIgZnJhbWVib3JkZXI9IjAiIGFsbG93PSJhY2NlbGVyb21ldGVyOyBhdXRvcGxheTsgY2xpcGJvYXJkLXdyaXRlOyBlbmNyeXB0ZWQtbWVkaWE7IGd5cm9zY29wZTsgcGljdHVyZS1pbi1waWN0dXJlOyB3ZWItc2hhcmUiIHJlZmVycmVycG9saWN5PSJzdHJpY3Qtb3JpZ2luLXdoZW4tY3Jvc3Mtb3JpZ2luIiBhbGxvd2Z1bGxzY3JlZW4+PC9pZnJhbWU+\"><div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-preset-c brlbs-cmpnt-cb-youtube\"> <div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-thumbnail\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/musiknerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/borlabs-cookie\/1\/yt_r8DT3cIWHLs_hqdefault.jpg')\"><\/div> <div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-main\"> <div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-play-button\"><\/div> <div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-content\"> <p class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-description\">You are currently viewing a placeholder content from <strong>YouTube<\/strong>. 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Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers.<\/p> <a class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-provider-toggle\" href=\"#\" data-borlabs-cookie-show-provider-information role=\"button\">More Information<\/a> <\/div> <div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-buttons\"> <a class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-btn\" href=\"#\" data-borlabs-cookie-unblock role=\"button\">Unblock content<\/a> <a class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-btn\" href=\"#\" data-borlabs-cookie-accept-service role=\"button\" style=\"display: inherit\">Accept required service and unblock content<\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>\n <\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Inka Bause &#8211; Heart in the straw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Studio albums<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1987 Inca<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1989 Steps<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1991 I walk through the night<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1992 A train from somewhere<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2002 Be Happy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2006 Inca&#8217;s grass green day<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008 I miss nothing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2018 With open arms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020 Songs of life<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inka Bause, born on November 21, 1968 in Leipzig, is a German pop singer. pop singerpresenter, actress and producer. 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