Björn Bürger

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Björn Bürger (born October 10, 1985 in Darmstadt ) is a German opera singer ( baritone ).

Life

Björn Bürger, the son of a teacher-parents-couple and five years younger brother of the actor and theater director Lars Bürger, spent his childhood and youth in Rodgau near Frankfurt am Main .

School and study time

After primary school, Bürger first attended the Heinrich Böll School (Integrated Comprehensive School) in his home town and in mid-2002 switched to the upper level of the Oswald von Nell Breuning School in Rödermark . Citizens obtained their general higher education entrance qualification ( Abitur ) there in 2005 and began studying the department of spoken theater at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts . In 2007 he switched to the opera singing department.

Related to Rio Reiser

Around 20 years before Björn Bürger was born, student Ralph Christian Möbius lived from 1965 to 1968 in Nieder-Roden , since 1979 part of the city of Rodgau, on the same street where Bürger grew up. Möbius, known under the name Rio Reiser as the front man of the band Ton Steine ​​Scherben , aroused the interest of the piano student Bürger with his early socially critical protest songs and late romantic love ballads as early as the late 1990s.

Musical career

With the support of his parents, the student Björn Bürger received piano lessons at the local free music school at an early age, and he taught himself to play the guitar. His piano teacher Benjamin Schütze made him aware of Rio Reiser and Bürger began to interpret his music in a playful and vocal way. In addition to piano training, he also took singing lessons from Gottfried Kärner, the director of the Polyhymnia Pop Choir in his hometown, in which Bürger also sang.

While still at school, Bürger was initially a singer in the band Up To Now, and later an active member of the South Hessian artist group Pro-these and the theater group MomentMal . With this he designed and performed the musical Herr Fresssack und die Bremer Stadtmusikanten in the musical project of the Bad Nauheim music school in 2000 , which is based on the radio play of the same name with Ton Steine ​​Scherben from 1973. Numerous solo appearances as a Rio Reiser interpreter followed. In 2003, Bürger received the cultural promotion award in his hometown “for his artistic work in the fields of singing, theater and piano” in 2002.

From 2007 to 2013 Bürger studied opera singing at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts in the class of Hedwig Fassbender . During his student days, in addition to other solo appearances as a Rio Reiser interpreter and guest roles as an opera singer, he already had four engagements in productions of the Frankfurt Opera . He also took part in various annual productions at his university, for example at the Höchst Opera Summer in the leading role of Osmin in Mozart's Singspiel Zaide and in the leading role of King Argante at the Handel Festival in Karlsruhe . He also appeared in the leading role of Victor Hugo in the world premiere of Paul Leonard Schäffer's operetta A Capitulation based on a libretto by Richard Wagner at the Festival of Young Artists in Bayreuth .

At the age of 27, Björn Bürger prevailed against eleven other young artists at the National Singing Competition in Berlin in the final in the Komische Oper Berlin in November 2012 and won first place, endowed with 10,000 euros.

Three months later, Björn Bürger and mezzo-soprano Dorottya Láng won one of the most highly endowed advancement awards for up-and-coming singers, the Emmerich Smola Prize. After a concert with the competition finalists in the Festhalle Landau , the audience decided on the awarding of the prizes, which were associated with a concert engagement with the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern .

Björn Bürger at the world premiere of Der Mieter , Oper Frankfurt , November 2017

Björn Bürger has been a permanent member of the Frankfurt Opera since the 2013/14 season. He was able to achieve a great personal success in November 2017 in the title role of the world premiere of Herrmann's Der Mieter , according to Frankfurter Allgemeine he completed "a vocal-acting tour de force , which he masters intensively, in many different ways, in a very impressive way."

Scholarships, Honors and Prizes

  • 2003 - Culture Prize of the City of Rodgau
  • 2010 - Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now grant
  • 2011 - "MainCampus academicus scholarship" from the Polytechnic Society Frankfurt am Main
  • 2011 - Scholarship from the Da Ponte Foundation
  • 2012 - First Prize National Singing Competition (Berlin)
  • 2013 - Emmerich-Smola-Förderpreis (Landau)

Appearances and engagements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Article of the Offenbach Post from March 26, 2003 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Report on the awarding of the 2002 Culture Promotion Prize to Björn Bürger, accessed on February 24, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hbs-rodgau.de
  2. ↑ Biographies of the winners at the National Singing Competition in Berlin 2012/13 ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on March 6, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bwgesang.de
  3. ↑ a b c d e Emmerich Smola sponsorship award for Björn Bürger Article at klassic.com from February 18, 2013, accessed on February 22, 2013
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Hedwig Fassbender: Student Successes ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Hedwig Fassbender on Björn Bürger, accessed on February 22, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hedwig-fassbender.de
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Vita Björn Bürger 2012, accessed on February 22, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hfmdk-frankfurt.info
  6. ↑ a b Die Welt November 27, 2012 Citizen sings all in the ground, accessed on February 22, 2013
  7. ↑ Gerhard R. Koch : The taps are dripping, the neighbors are knocking , When living becomes a nightmare: Arnulf Herrmann's opera “Der Mieter” based on the novel by Roland Topor is premiered in Frankfurt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , updated on November 14th 2017
  8. ↑ a b c d e f Hessischer Rundfunk November 27, 2012 ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Björn Bürger wins the national singing competition, called on February 22, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hr-online.de
  9. ↑ Offenbach Post from January 14, 2010 Björn Bürger interprets Rio Reiser , accessed on February 24, 2013
  10. ↑ Projects 2012/13 of the University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt am Main ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on March 6, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hfmdk-frankfurt.info
personal data
SURNAME Citizen, Björn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt