Ivan Rebroff

Ivan Rebroff ( born July 31, 1931 in Berlin -Spandau as Hans Rolf Rippert, † 27 February 2008 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German singer who had a vocal range of more than four octaves thanks to the use of falsetto.

Life

Rebroff was and his wife Luise Fenske (* 1896 in Bydgoszcz ) born as Hans Rolf Rippert in the Spandau district of Berlin, the son of the engineer Paul Rippert ( in Liebenswerda * 1897). He was the younger brother of the later ZDF sports reporter Horst Rippert ( 1922-2013 ). According Rebroffs own, the media often is undoubted, but never refuted statement was the mother of Russian, the father of Jewish and Russian descent; Emma was actually born Rippert vineyard, the mother of his father, a Jew. Rebroff grew up in Belzig and Halle (Saale ), where he was a member of Stadtsingechor. Later, he lived alternately in cell Weiersbach, a small border town of Offenburg, in a small hunting lodge near Hunoldstal and in Skopelos, a small Greek island. Rebroff studied as a Fulbright scholar singing at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg ( 1951-1959 ). His Hamburger singing teacher Prof. Adolf Detel formed him there for a performer eastern song good. In 1958 he won the German high school competition. After that, he was a singer at the " Black Sea Cossack Choir " and "Ural Cossacks Choir ". A membership at the " Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff " is at least doubtful in spite of many details that effect. In 1960 he won the 1st prize at the 9th International ARD Music Competition in Munich.

Rebroff is best known for the role of the milkman Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof Musical at the Theatre Marigny on the Champs Elysees ( over 1400 performances). Subsequently, he was involved in various touring productions and feature films, including The Barber of Seville, Boris Godunov, The Gypsy Baron, and Wiener Blut Der Rosenkavalier. There were also appearances in numerous television shows. He gave concerts in concert halls, churches, and at gala events, most recently in December 2007 in the Votive Church. 1985 Rebroff was awarded in recognition of his services to the understanding between East and West, the Federal Cross of Merit. He was since he turned 60, also an honorary citizen of the Greek Sporades Skopelos Island. Ivan Rebroff received a total of 49 gold records and one platinum record for selling 10 million LPs worldwide since 1975.

Rebroff died on 27 February 2008 at the age of 76 in a hospital in Frankfurt am Main from organ failure and cardiac arrest. Most recently, he was a Greek national.

Pseudonym

The name Rebroff is derived from the Russian translation ребро ( Orebro ) of the German word rib. Ivan is the Russian form of John or Hans. Due to this pseudonym was Rebroff a mighty beard and always wore at events and on official photos a traditional Russian fur hat and matching Folklore clothes. This staging and his slight accent made ​​him as a " true- Russians " always appear as some imagined him in West Germany at that time widespread clichés.

Litigation against Müller

Rebroff sued successfully in 1994 against the Müller Dairy because of the infringement of his personal rights. The dairy had been used in a commercial, a double, because you did not want to pay Rebroff the required fee. The Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe was Rebroff law and sentenced Mueller to a retroactive payment of royalties in the amount of 155,000 DM

Success title

  • Evening Bells ( Вечерний звон )
  • Thanks be to Thee, O Lord
  • The lonely bell ( Однозвучно гремит колокольчик )
  • The Legend of the 12 Robbers ( Жили двенадцать разбойников )
  • The Legend of the twelve robbers ( Жили двенадцать разбойников )
  • A white birch
  • Havah Nagila
  • I pray in the power of love ( Коль славен )
  • Deep in the basement
  • Kalinka
  • Katjuscha
  • With the Troika in the big city
  • Moscow Nights ( Подмосковные вечера )
  • O Isis and Osiris
  • Black eyes ( Очи черные )
  • Stenka Razin ( Стенька Разин )
  • If I Were a Rich Man ( from the musical Fiddler on the Roof )
  • Wolgalied
  • Volga Boatmen

Discography (selection)

  • Ave Maria
  • I pray in the power of love
  • Magic of a great voice
  • My Russian Homeland
  • Glasnost perestroika
  • Come to Hellas
  • His greatest operatic successes
  • Musical Gems
  • Russian Christmas
  • Spring in the Taiga
  • Request concert
  • Christmas with Ivan Rebroff
  • When I once rich would '
  • Live in Concert DVD
  • Live in Concert, Recitals 1968
  • My trip around the world
  • My Russian soul
  • My Russia, you're beautiful
  • Coronation of a great career
  • The most beautiful voice of Russia
  • And on earth peace ...
  • A Moscou
  • From the World
  • Cossacks have to ride
  • Well Sdarowje
  • Taiga dreams
  • Russian Party
  • Memories of Russia
  • Folk tunes from the old Russia
  • Boris Godounov
Spandau (locality) Germans Bad Liebenwerda Bad Belzig Fulbright Commission Musical interpretation Boris Godunov (opera) Wiener Blut (operetta) Greece Hava Nagila Kalinka (song) Katyusha (song) Die Fledermaus Carlos Kleiber Integrated Authority File
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