Michelle Ends 54-Year Schlager Run Before Schlagerbooom Farewell
Michelle will close out her schlager career on 27 June with one last television appearance as a singer on ARD’s Schlagerbooom. The 54-year-old, one of the best-known voices in German Schlager for more than three decades, is then moving into work as a spirit healer under her real name, Tanja.
Schlagerbooom on 27 June
The farewell lands on a fixed stage: Florian Silbereisen’s Schlagerbooom, where Michelle will sing on television for the last time. That gives the night a clear business meaning for her audience and for the format itself, because it is not a routine booking but a planned exit from the genre that made her name.
Michelle’s breakthrough came in 1993 with “Und heut‘ Nacht will ich tanzen,” the song that won the ZDF-Hitparade for her. More than three decades later, she is ending the career that started with that hit and has kept her among the most recognizable Schlager voices in Germany.
From travel to Tanja
Michelle said the decision grew over years, not days. In Riverboat, she said, “Es hat wirklich Spaß gemacht. Aber es ist schon über die Jahre so gewesen, dass ich gespürt habe, dass ich diese Reiserei nicht mehr möchte.” In another interview, she said, “Das ist nicht nur eine Überlegung, sondern das ist eine Überzeugung.”
Michelle also drew a line between exhaustion and resentment: “Es ist nicht so, dass ich aus einer Laune heraus sage, ich habe keinen Bock mehr, weil mir alles in der Branche auf die Nerven geht.” That distinction matters because she is not leaving the stage in protest; she is exiting by choice, after deciding the road life no longer fits.
Healer training and online plans
Michelle is not treating the move into spiritual work as a sudden reinvention. She said, “Vor zwölf Jahren machte ich eine Heiler-Ausbildung, später noch eine Medium-Ausbildung. Beides hat mir unglaublich geholfen, mich selbst auf meinem Weg zu finden.” She has also said she has worked for years with a “geistigen Zirkel” and a medium, and that the trainings helped her find her path.
“Ich möchte Menschen helfen zu heilen. Nicht mehr nur mit Musik. Sondern direkt. Persönlich. Tiefgehend,” she said, adding, “Ich beginne das jetzt erst mal online und schaue, was daraus wird.” That is the practical next step for her career: no longer Michelle the singer, but Tanja working first online as a spirit healer this year.
For readers who followed her Schlager run, the important detail is the handoff. One appearance at Schlagerbooom ends a more than three-decade run; after that, her public work shifts into a completely different field, with the first move already named and dated by her own plan.
