Dorle Rath
Doris "Dorle" Rath (born March 10, 1921 ; † July 9, 1989 ) was a German singer of swing and light music .
Live and act
Rath, daughter of the physician Hugo Rath and his wife Veronika, received piano and cello lessons as a child in order to then have her voice ( mezzo-soprano or alto ) trained. Until the work of high school she attended the Lyceum in Wandsbek . Then she completed an apprenticeship as a physiotherapist and medical pool attendant at the Lette-Haus in Berlin , but was not allowed to take the state examination during the National Socialist era because of her Jewish descent . For the next few years she worked in her father's outpatient clinic in Ahrensburg , but was only able to take over its management after the end of the Nazi dictatorship.
Her vocal talent was discovered when she sang at a wedding in 1946; she was hired as the refrain singer of the NWDR dance orchestra Hamburg . There she got into the dispute about the role of jazz in popular music. Many listeners would rather hear conventional timbres than the jazz-oriented sounds offered by Kurt Weg . After Weges employee Friedrich Meyer escalated the situation, Dorle Rath (like Weg) was also on leave. In 1949 she was signed by Polydor to record hits like "Barbara, Barbara, drive with me to Africa" with Benny de Weille . Further recordings such as “Money alone doesn't make you happy”, “You are my secret” or the “Optimist Boogie” followed, as did the vocal number “The Elephant” for Helmut Zacharias . Since 1953 she also played in music films, for example as a singing cook in the film "Das singende Hotel" by Michael Jary . In the film “ Big Star Parade ” she sang a few bars of “Bongo Boogie” with Ilja Glusgal and Bully Buhlan and danced to it. Then she retired to run her outpatient clinic and only sang in the Ahrensburg church choir.
Web links
- Biography with discography (fifties singers) ( memento from July 24, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- Dorle Rath in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dorle Rath at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Götz Alsmann Jazzschlager February 2008 (You are my secret)
- ↑ Sheet metal pressed against the wall. Between hot and sweet Der Spiegel , January 17, 1948
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rath, Dorle |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rath, Doris (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz and entertainment singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1921 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1989 |