Interview with Ramona Cramer, founder of the fan club and the entertainers Thomas Murza in the Hanseatic city of Greifswald on 15.06.2010 Ramona: On stage you say "The blond Hans", what is your name in real life? Thomas: Thomas Ramona: Thomas what relationship do you have to Pomerania? Thomas: I was born in Pomerania, in Pasewalk. My grandparents fled at the end of the war from Stettin-Pomerania. When I was three years old, my mother, who worked previously as a teacher trainer for nurses in Greifswald, and I went to Berlin. There I got my musical education. Ramona: Do you have a profession learned? Thomas: Yes, business merchant. Eight years ago I started to take piano lessons and founded my first band at 15. My biological father, Karl Ludwig Trust, was an actor and director in a theater. I have also tried acting and was involved in film production as a supporting actor. On the big breakthrough as an actor, I'm still waiting ... ?. Ramona: Why do you sing only sea shanties? What inspired you? Thomas: My repertoire includes around 120 songs that are hits, folk songs and oldies. Sea shanties as you call, I sing since 2006 under the pseudonym "The Blonde Hans". For many years I played Conutrymusik and Rock'n Roll. Later, I toured with the legendary Sputniks. In 2001 I started my solo career. That was a good decision. I have great pleasure in my performances. I have been working hard on a program that I use today in concerts. The result is: Sailorsongs and Comedy. A great combination, for I can do both, bring music and my acting ambitions. Ramona: Do you sing your own songs or do you have a producer? Thomas: I write my own texts, among others I have the Song "Amarillo by Morning" re-recorded with German text. I dont have a producer, I finance my own CDs. Ramona: And you've already sold something? Thomas: Yeah, my house and my car. Seriously. My fans were the ones who have touched me if I would even CDs. Ramona: Do you sing always live on your concerts? Thomas: Well, the music is from the CD, but I always sing live. At concerts in other countries or on cruise ships, of course, musicians. I thank Thomas for the interview. POMERANIA Pomerania is an ancient country. The name derives from the Slavic po more and means "Land on the sea".Towards the end of the 13th Century was a division of Pomerania by the rulers of the family of Access in the principalities of Stettin and Wolgast. From 1534 was the Reformation in Pomerania catchment. The Pomeranian Pastor Johannes Bugenhagen known as "Doctor Pomeranus" next to Luther, one of the best-known Reformers. The neutrality of Pomerania in the Thirty Years' War took advantage of the country not much. Pomerania was alternately by the imperial troops under Wallenstein and the Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus plundered. By the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, Stettin-Pomerania came to Brandenburg andWolgast- Pomerania fell under Swedish rule. It remained so until 1815. Since Western Pomerania became Prussian, as nearly one hundred years earlier, East-Pomerania. At the end of World War, Pomerania in the spring of 1945 was conquered by the Red Army and divided in the following years by establishing the German-Polish border. From now decree was Vorpommern, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. To separate areas again to get closer to each other, was in the framework of European cooperation in 1995 founded the Euro Region of Pomerania. We say Welcome and look forward to your visit in Pomerania!