Claus Ocher

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Claus Ocker (born December 20, 1923 in Verden (Aller) ; † November 25, 2015 ) was a German singer of classical music and university professor with a baritone voice .

Life

Ocher was used as a soldier in the Wehrmacht for military service during the Second World War from 1942 from 1945 . After the war, from 1945 to 1951 he studied music at the Hamburg University of Music . From 1948 to 1975 Ocker worked as a freelance concert singer . Concert tours have taken him to the Middle East , Canada , Japan , China and India, among others . As a recitalist, ocher was particularly with German art songs of romance on.

From 1969 to 1975 he taught concert singing at the Bremen Conservatory . From 1975 to 1989 he was professor for singing at the Hamburg University of Music. From 1987, Ocker also took on various visiting professorships , including at St. Jose State University in California , as well as at universities in China and Japan. Until 1993 he also held lectureships at various universities, including at Osaka Ongaku Daigaku , the Osaka University of Music .

Ocker was a founding member of the Federal Association of German Singing Pedagogues and an honorary member of the Japanese Hugo Wolf Society and the Japanese Franz Schubert Society .

Works (selection)

Audio documents

  • Innsbruck. EMI-Electrola, Cologne 1982 (production: 1962)
  • Heinrich Schütz : Historia [of] the birth of Jesus Christ. EMI-Electrola, Cologne 1982
  • Valentin Rathgeber : [Ears-pleasing and mind-pleasing table confection (selection)] Augsburg table confectionary. Carus-Verlag, distribution: Disco-Center, Stuttgart / Kassel [1985]
  • Franz Schubert : The beautiful miller. Kissing and Wildner, Hamburg; Distribution: Fono-Schallplattengesellschaft, Münster (Westphalia) [1990]
  • Franz Schubert: The Winter Journey. Kissing and Wildner, Hamburg; Distribution: Fono-Schallplattengesellschaft, Münster (Westphalia) [1991]
  • Songs by Erich Böhlke . Recording of the Japanese Hugo Wolf Society, Tokyo [2002]

Book publication

  • Soldier in World War II. Subject con variazioni. (Telling is remembering, Volume 28), Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, Kassel 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary in the Weserkurier on December 5, 2015
  2. ↑ Vita Claus Ocker  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 195 kB) In: Lohmann-Stiftung für Liedgesang eV Wiesbaden , 54th Lohmann Symposium March 3rd and 4th 2007, (program booklet), page 4@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.lohmann-stiftung.de  
personal data
SURNAME Ocher, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Verden (Aller)
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 2015