Detlef Rora

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Detlef Rora (born April 6, 1934 , † December 9, 2015 in Forch , Switzerland ) was a Swiss reciter and speech teacher .

Rora studied in Berlin , including the art of speaking with Otto Warlich . After teaching at grammar schools, teaching rhetoric at universities of education and at the Technical University of Braunschweig, he worked as a freelance speech pedagogue in the Zurich area from 1989.

His artistic lecture events with different programs (e.g. "Evenings of Lecturing Art") had a special style of lecture that took care of every nuance of the text. Rora was known for working through the texts to be spoken so thoroughly that they were finally available to him by heart, which enabled him to reproduce the text in a particularly intensive, spoken way, which was also characterized by the greatest naturalness.

Rora could also be heard on records, also with his attempts to comment on contemporary texts with appropriate contemporary music, in order to create a particularly favorable situation for the listener of his recitations, who in this way of presenting the expressive side of the texts, the one awakened by them Thoughts and feelings linger in the music and let it continue.

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  1. Rora.ch website: obituary notice ; accessed on December 2, 2016