Fifi Brix

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Fifi Brix (born December 16, 1932 in Magdeburg as Lore Kowalke , after marrying Lore Wittek ) is a German chansonnière , composer and author .

Live and act

According to information from the record companies and a questionnaire filled out by Fifi Brix himself, she was born in Magdeburg. However, some other sources give Berlin as her place of birth, where there is evidence that she at least grew up. During her training as a concert pianist at the Berlin Music School , she also appeared on smaller stages, as her scholarship of 90 marks at that time was not enough to live on. After seven years of study, she passed the state examination as a concert pianist in 1958 and in the same year had her first major public appearance in Willi Schaeffer's “ Tingeltangel ” cabaret bar . Brix has performed solo programs since 1967, but also designed various duo programs together with Gert Fröbe and Barbara Kuster . In 1968 Brix received the Schwabing Art Prize and in 1969 she starred in six programs for NDR under the direction of Heinz Dunkhase .

Brix was best known during the heyday of German chanson in the 1960s and 1970s. In her programs she combined classical music with texts in the Berlin dialect .

In 1979 NDR recorded the program Play Brix in Ball Pompös with her and broadcast it. Afterwards - until 1983 - the press only reported sporadically about upcoming or completed concerts or tours .

Starting in 1997, Brix performed a number of appearances as a trio under the heading of “Frauenpower”, together with Helga Siebert and Barbara Kuster, which were well received by the press. A CD ( Best Of Brix ) was released, which for the most part contained some of the old recordings in digitally revised form. She also appeared solo again with a program of the same title. With the program Zwei Schlampen in Blond she started in 2000 - again with Barbara Kuster - on her last tour so far.

Programs

  • 1967 Play Brix
  • 1971 Cocktail, with Gert Fröbe
  • 1975 burned and sewn up
  • 1978 Fifis Festival
  • 2000 Two sluts in blonde with Barbara Kuster

Filmography

Sound carrier

  • Nice doll from Berlin. (EP) Telefunken
  • sex: null. (LP) disco030
  • Play Brix. (LP) Elite Special, 1969
  • Live. (LP) Polydor, 1970 or 1971
  • Fifi Brix. (LP) Elite Special, 1974
  • Best of Brix. (CD); Christoph Kügler, Robert F. Schneider u. a., Munich 1998

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry: Brix, Fifi . On: liedermacher-forum.de ; last accessed on April 9, 2014.
  2. ↑ Schwabing Art Prize, All Prize Winners . (1968, honorary award) On: www.muenchen.de ; last accessed on April 9, 2014.

literature

  • Klaus Budzinski, Reinhard Hippen: Metzler Cabaret Lexicon. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-476-01448-7 .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Brix, Fifi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wittek, Lore; Kowalke, Lore (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chansonnière, composer and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg