Nadja Abd el Farrag

Nadja Abd el Farrag
Abd el Farrag in 2013
Born(1965-03-05)5 March 1965
Hamburg, West Germany
Died9 May 2025(2025-05-09) (aged 60)
Hamburg, Germany
Other namesNaddel
Occupations
  • Television personality
  • presenter
  • singer
Years active1989–2024[1]
Partner

Nadja Abd el Farrag (5 March 1965 – 9 May 2025), nicknamed Naddel, was a German television and media personality. She became known through her relationship with songwriter and record producer Dieter Bohlen of Modern Talking.

Early life

Abd el Farrag was born in Hamburg to a Sudanese father, Ibrahim, and a German mother, Uta.[2] She described her father as very strict and was estranged from him for the last 15 years before his death.[2] She had a younger sister.[3] Abd el Farrag left school a year before the Abitur and later did an apprenticeship as a chemist's assistant and worked in a shop.[2]

Career

In 1989, Abd el Farrag met Dieter Bohlen in Hamburg and became a background vocalist for his project Blue System.[4] During that time, she briefly had a part-time job in a hospice.[2] Abd el Farrag and Bohlen were in a relationship from 1989 to 1996 and from 1997 to 2001.[5] In 1999, she did two photoshoots for the magazine Playboy Germany.[4] From 1999 to 2000, she presented the RTL II erotic-show Peep![3]

In 2002, Abd el Farrag published a cookbook, which was followed by her autobiography Ungelogen in 2003. Ungelogen details her youth and her relationship with Bohlen, and also contains controversial statements about her former manager Gerd Graf Bernadotte, who sued her to have some passages removed.[6] In 2004, she took part in the second season of Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!, the German version of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! In 2005, she was a guest on Big Brother Germany for a week. In 2006, she released the single "Blinder Passagier" with Austrian schlager singer Kurt Elsasser, which was followed by their collaborative album Weiße Pferde in 2007. That same year, they took part in the preselection for the Grand Prix der Volksmusik with the song "Heimat". From 2007 to 2017, her stage-name Naddel was a registered trademark.[7] In 2008, Abd el Farrag also worked as a DJ. In 2009, she advertised for the German erotic company Orion and for the erotic fair Venus Berlin.[8] In 2013, she participated in Promiboxen on Sat.1. In 2016 and 2018, she took part in the RTL show Raus aus den Schulden, presented by debt counselor Peter Zwegat.[9] Also in 2018, she published her second autobiography Achterbahn.[10] Her last public appearance was at Schlagermove on 25 May 2024, after which she retired from the limelight "despite several offers".[1]

Personal life and death

Abd el Farrag and Bohlen had a tumultuous relationship, which she once described as "the mistake of my life".[4][11] Following their final breakup, media coverage of Abd el Farrag often focussed on her health and financial issues, particularly her alcohol consumption.[10][11][12] She was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as an adult,[9] and she told the German edition of Closer in 2017 that she had liver cirrhosis.[13] On 9 May 2025, she died from multiple organ failure in Hamburg, at the age of 60.[14][15]

Bibliography

  • Naddel kocht verführerisch gut, Südwest, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-517-06538-2
  • Ungelogen - (K)eine Liebesgeschichte, Herbig, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7766-2339-X
  • Nadja Abd el Farrag, Sybille F. Martin: Achterbahn. Eine Biographie, Obermayer, Buchloe 2018, ISBN 978-3-943037-46-3

References

  1. ^ a b Ebel, Leonie (14 May 2025). "Nadja Abd el Farrag ist verstorben: Das sind die Bilder ihres letzten Auftritts" [Nadja Abd el Farrag has died: These are the pictures of her last appearance]. Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine (in German). Retrieved 14 May 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d Herrnkind, Kerstin (6 July 2016). "Porträt: Die verlorene Ehre der Nadja Abd el Farrag" [Portrait: The lost honour of Nadja Abd el Farrag]. Stern (in German). Archived from the original on 13 May 2025. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
  3. ^ a b Faller, Heike (17 October 2002). "Oh, Naddel". Die Zeit (in German). Archived from the original on 25 May 2018. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  4. ^ a b c Treichel, Inge (5 March 2005). "Naddels Geburtstagswünsche" [Naddel's birthday wishes]. Stern (in German). Retrieved 23 May 2018.
  5. ^ "Dieter Bohlens Kinder hassten Naddel zutiefst" [Dieter Bohlen's children hated Naddel deeply]. Blick (in German). 23 March 2018. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
  6. ^ "Document for the media by the district court of Frankfurt am Main" (PDF) (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  7. ^ "Register number: 30000239". German Patent and Trade Mark Office (in German). Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  8. ^ "Naddel wirbt für Erotikmesse Venus" [Naddel advertises for erotic fair Venus]. Horizont (in German). 7 April 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  9. ^ a b Hildebrandt, Antje (23 April 2018). "Die fragwürdige Emanzipation der Nadja Abd el Farrag" [The questionable emancipation of Nadja Abd el Farrag]. Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  10. ^ a b mai (26 February 2018). "Paparazzi-Jagd: Viele wollen sie scheitern sehen - so wird Nadja Abd el Farrag verfolgt" [Paparazzi chase: Many want to see her fail - how Nadja Abd el Farrag is followed around]. Stern (in German). Retrieved 14 May 2025.
  11. ^ a b Spoerr, Kathrin (9 August 2016). "Naddel: Blieb sie zu Hause, ging Dieter Bohlen fremd" [Naddel: When she stayed home, Dieter Bohlen cheated]. Die Welt (in German). Archived from the original on 15 August 2023. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
  12. ^ "Alkohol: Naddel leidet unter ständiger Beobachtung" [Alcohol: Naddel suffers from constantly being watched]. Kurier (in German). 27 February 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
  13. ^ Eiserbeck, Janna (19 April 2017). "Nadja "Naddel" abd el Farrag: "Ich kämpfe um mein Leben!"" [Nadja "Naddel" Abd el Farrag: "I'm fighting for my life!"]. Berliner Morgenpost (in German). Retrieved 14 May 2025.
  14. ^ "TV-Star Nadja Abd el Farrag gestorben" [TV star Nadja Abd el Farrag has died]. ZDFheute (in German). 12 May 2025. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
  15. ^ "Nadja »Naddel« Abd El Farrag ist tot" [Nadja "Naddel" Abd el Farrag is dead]. Der Spiegel (in German). 12 May 2025. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
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