Brigitte Rabald
Brigitte Rabald (* 1934 in Markkleeberg ; † September 2, 2019 in Leipzig ) was a German pop singer.
Life
After attending school, Brigitte Rabald began an apprenticeship at HO when she was 17 . Singing was her hobby. She was trained by Käthe Brinkmann , Frank Schöbel's mother , in voice training and breathing techniques . She dared to use the microphone for the first time in the Forsthaus Raschwitz, a dance hall in her hometown at the time, where the bands Kurt Henkels and Alo Koll played. Soon afterwards, their first radio recordings were made in the Funkhaus Leipzig under Kurt Henkels. Don't be so proud and don't get excited, which were soon followed by more.
In 1954, she took first and third place in the annual ranking of the Schlagerlotterie , a program on the GDR radio hosted by Heinz Quermann , with the titles That is love at first sight and Whoever is young, falls in love . In 1955 she was voted the most popular pop singer in the GDR by the readers of the youth newspaper Junge Welt . She also took on minor film roles.
In 1956 she married Alo Koll. The couple had a daughter and a son. Brigitte Rabald withdrew from the music business in the 1960s. In 1982 the couple moved to Alo Koll's hometown Aachen , where Alo Koll died two years later. Brigitte Rabald then moved to Florida to live with her daughter . In 2000 she came back to Leipzig. She spent the last two years of her life in a senior citizens' residence in Leipzig.
Discography (selection)
- 1953: Don't get upset , (Kurt Wichmann / Lem Arcon)
- 1954: Oh, Fips, you are like Apollo (with Fips Fleischer ; Alo Koll / Johannes Kretzschmar )
- 1954: Bella Bimba (Oscar de Mejo / Kurt Feltz )
- 1954: Make up your mind ( Helmut Nier / Willy Schüller )
- 1955: Is it you or isn't it ( Gerd Natschinski )
- 1956: This is love at first sight (Gerd Natschinski / Günter Loose )
- 1956: That can't be a sin ( Heino Gaze / Günther Schwenn )
- 1956: Sing, baby, sing ( Heinz Gietz / Kurt Feltz )
- 1958: A Woman's Heart (Alo Koll / Helmut Kießling )
- 1962: Stranger, hear my melody (Alo Koll / Willy Schüller)
Filmography
- 1955: Star with strange feathers
- 1962: What do you think of music?
Web links
- Brigitte Rabald. In: DDR dance music. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
- Pop star of the 50s: Brigitte Rabald died in Leipzig. In: LVZ, September 22, 2019. Accessed November 4, 2019 .
- Brigitte Rabald in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
---|---|
SURNAME | Rabald, Brigitte |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Koll, Brigitte (married name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pop singer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1934 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Markkleeberg |
DATE OF DEATH | 2nd September 2019 |
Place of death | Leipzig |