Karsten Troyke
Karsten Troyke ( born August 14, 1960 in East Berlin as Karsten Bertolt Sell Horn ) is a German chanson singer, actor and spokesman, who especially with Yiddish songs made an international reputation. He is considered one of the most important artists of this genre in Europe. He is a son of Werner Sell Horn, grandson Iseult Kilian and Uncle Tino Mewes.
Life
Since 1982, on the stage, however, he had first learned the gardener career and later worked with mentally handicapped children. On the side he took singing lessons with Leonore Gendries as well as instruction in drama and elocution. In 1990 he gave up this job and devoted himself entirely to the songs programs and the theater (including vagrants Stage Berlin, Hackesches Court Theatre, Teatr creature).
He worked in radio plays, worked as a voice actor and was seen in a very different stage plays. As an ambassador of the " Yiddish song", he traveled since 1989 a number of countries such as Poland, France, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Australia, Israel, USA, Croatia and Sweden.
His album Yiddish Anders ( 1992) was awarded the German Record Critics. His 1997 released CD Forgotten Songs contains previously unreleased songs from the memory of Sara Bialas - Tenenberg who was also his mentor for the Yiddish language.
In his Chanson programs Troyke worked mainly with Bettina Wegner, Suzanna and the Trio Scho. His interpretations of songs Georg Kreisler were mentioned in the first biography published in 2005. In 2006 published two documentaries with Troyke in Belgium (Les Films de la Mémoire ), Yiddish and Yiddish Soul Soul - The Concert. In 2007 he was a regular guest soloist with the farewell tour of Bettina Wegner. 2008 and 2009, he starred alongside his concerts theater again, in the ensemble of Miriam Sachs
Troyke are workshops for the interpretation of Yiddish songs, gives rare songs from his collection, taught from at the Jewish Music Institute SOAS London, Carleton College in Northfield (Minnesota) and most recently in the summer school of the Centre Medem, Paris.
In his concerts he has devoted himself since 2006 geratenen especially in oblivion Yiddish tangos, he is in this case accompanied by Trio Scho and Jan Hermerschmidt.
Works
Books ( as co-editor )
- Fritz Mordechai Kaufmann: The most beautiful songs of the Eastern Jews - Forty-seven selected folk songs., Reprinted facsimile of 1920 and translated by Karsten Troyke and Achim Freudenstein. Achim's publisher, Edermünde 2001. ISBN 978-3932435096