Ilja Richter

Ilja Richter (* November 24, 1952 in Berlin ) is a German actor, voice actor, singer and television presenter.

Life

Ilja Richter was born as the third child of Eva and Georg Richter in Berlin -Karl Horst. The father was a communist, the Jewish mother had survived with a forged " Aryan" identity, the "Third Reich". They named the son after Ilya Ehrenburg. After the family had fallen in the GDR politically in trouble, she moved in 1953 to West Berlin. There the parents leased a restaurant. 1955 Ilja's sister Janina was born, and in 1959 the family moved to Cologne. There, too, the judge operated a restaurant, but in 1961 moved back to West Berlin, where they opened a boarding house. The mother, a former actress, Ilya brought in to audition for SFB.

Ilja Richter was 1975-1978 romantically involved with singer Marianne Rosenberg, which has been known since the early 1980s. Until February 2004 he was married to film editor Stephanie Falkenhausen. His son (* 2001) comes from a relationship with a French make-up artist. Ilja Richter lives and lives in Berlin.

Career

The RIAS, a West Berlin radio station, dedicated to the talented speakers and singers, when he was eight. His first role was spokesman for the " little mouse Kukuruz " in the radio play black on white by Ephraim Kishon, in the television film in 1963, he was seen on the side of Edith Hancke. In order for a child star was discovered who was involved in the subsequent period of more than 60 radio plays of the RIAS and was recommended for children's roles in the Berlin theater.

His first stage role was Ilja Richter 1961 in Belvedere at Berlin's Renaissance Theatre with Viktor de Kowa in the lead role. He attended a private school. In 1963, he took a small role in the musical Annie Get Your Gun at the Theater of the West. The main role was played by Heidi Brühl. In 1966 he joined with Vico Torriani - also in the theater of the West - in the musical comedy The White Horse Inn on. His talent was a lot of attention when he friends and foes played in the two- person play as a partner of Martin Held 1966.

Richter played in 1967 in the ZDF television series Till, the boy -next-door. As a 16 - year-old he took over in February 1969 ( along with Suzanne Doucet ) the co-host of the music show 4-3-2-1 Hot & Sweet on ZDF. It should be the response of ZDF on the Beat-Club ARD. One difference to the beat club style was that Ilja Richter - often occurred in jacket with tie and trousers creases - in marked contrast to the way how young people dressed back then. The film was shot in Berlin. From 1970 moderated judge the music program alone.

On February 13, 1971 it was disco. Judge sayings ( " Lights out! Whoom! Spot on! ... Yeah !") At that time were household words. Disco achieved high ratings. Following the success of the mission soon came to the evening program.

The extraordinary thing about the show was that artists of completely different genres ( pop, pop, rock ) occurred in succession. Scattered was the program of recordings of previously recorded skits in which Ilja Richter occurred along with a celebrity guest.

Overall, judges remained with Disco eleven years in the program. In November 1982, the format was discontinued. 1975 Ilja Richter got the " Bravo Otto". In 1997 disco was parodied in the 100th episode of Kalkofes focusing screen with Premiere.

1978 produced the Tucholsky lovers judge with actress Ursela Monn album Rieke Jesäng with Berlin chansons.

He then worked as an actor and director. The entry to he found in the Berlin Comedy Treppauf - down stairs and went with this piece in the fall of 1983 on tour, and it was recorded for television and broadcast in 1984. His most famous appearance was the one- man play The announcer of a striptease number is not on by Bodo Kirchhoff and directed by Detlef Altenbeck. For a time, was a judge member of the ensemble of the Bremen theater. As woodworm in the opera he created with Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft Opernnacherzählungen.

From 1985 to 1987 he was a columnist for the taz and the Hamburger Morgenpost.

Richter is also active as a voice actor, especially for animated films. Among the most famous figures, which he lent his voice to include the meerkat Timon from the Disney movie The Lion King, Count Duckula from the eponymous animated series and Mike Frankowski goggle from the Disney film Monsters, Inc..

In addition to his autobiography ( Spot out! Light on!) Ilja Richter published the book The German Jew, in which he ironically grapples with his mother to the German - Jewish history. His published also as audio book book Bruno - of bears and people (September 2007) is a parable about the 2006 shot "problem " Bruno. On 8 May 2013, published You can not always be 60. Older with a smile.

2011, the ZDF Disco had its 40th anniversary, Ilja Richter went on a "disco Tour". To mark the anniversary, Sony released several music CDs and DVDs, some of which were represented in the charts. In addition, Ilya produced with his son Kolya the children's record "The Little Snail". 2012 took judges with " The last disco tour" Farewell to the " disco" stage.

Awards

Filmography

Film dubbing

Theater and Musicals

Radio plays

Audiobooks

  • 2003 - Life of Pi
  • 2004 - Bambi country
  • 2005 - The background to the Helsinki Rocca Matios
  • 2005 - The Bear Strategy
  • 2006 - Great is the World
  • 2006 - Poems by Ringelnatz
  • 2006 - Love and Intrigue, as marshal of calf
  • 2007 - Bruno - of bears and people Gugis, Lahr 2007, ISBN 978-3-939461-24-1.

Records (selection)

  • Star Scene '77. 1000 Top - Stars presented by Ilja Richter, publishing company for reference books, Taunusstein 1977.
  • Eva Richter, Ilja Richter: The German Jew. In: Library of the German values ​​. Earthscan 2766 satire, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-426-02766-6.
  • Ilja Richter, Harald Stein Mart: My Story. dtv 2001, ISBN 3-423-20436-2 ( Original title:! . Spot of light on - My Story Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-455-11277-3 ).
  • Ilja Richter, Viola Roggenkamp: My momma. With a posthumous essay on Jews in Germany and their heritage, Fischer 16740, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16740-1.
  • Ilja Richter, Erich Rauschenbach ( Illustrator ): Bruno - From bears and humans. Buoy, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-414-82047-1.
  • You can not always be 60. Older with a smile are Riva, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86883-294-5
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