Frank Forster

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Frank Forster (born March 8, 1931 in Augsburg , † April 19, 2006 ) was a German singer , actor and painter .

Life

Frank Forster lived in Munich from the age of 7 . After high school he enrolled at the Munich Art Academy to train as a graphic designer . The Italian music teacher , with whom he sublet , taught him singing technique and reading music.

Working as an interpreter for the US Army , it was easy to get performance opportunities in various clubs for American soldiers. In 1955, at the opening of the “Studio 15” jazz club in Munich- Schwabing , he joined the house band, the Freddie Brocksieper Quartet. In the following years he deepened his musical skills there, for example by jumping in on the drums , and learned what it means - especially on tour  - to eke out a musical existence with all its joys and difficulties.

In 1956 he was involved in radio productions with the Kurt Edelhagen Orchestra and signed his first recording contract with Polydor . Cindy, oh Cindy and Mi casa su casa became successful and opened another door, namely to the film.

In 1957 he played a singer in the entertainment films Nachts im Grünen Kakadu with Marika Rökk and Dieter Borsche as well as Heinz Erhardt's widower with five daughters and appeared in the film It will be all good again with two hits. He suffered from not being offered roles that would fill him. But even later it was only enough for a supporting role in the television series Der Kommissar .

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Mi casa su casa
  DE 18th 09/21/1957 (4 weeks)

Musically things went better: tours with Max Greger first in German-speaking countries, then in 1959 through the USSR . And in 1960 a first place at a music festival in Belgium , where he left Udo Jürgens behind, among others . Finally, he experienced a high phase when he performed with Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra during a long stay in the USA .

His hobbies , documentary filming and painting, had actually brought him to the USA . He has been practicing the latter more and more professionally since the late 1960s, so that in 1986 the first of many other exhibitions took place.

Frank Forster was married to Nora Maier, a daughter of the publisher Franz Karl Maier . His daughter Ariane Forster († 2010) was the singer of the British punk band The Slits under the stage name Ari Up .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Frank Forster Biography (on the Biography subpage) , accessed on June 6, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Danny: A bit of luck for Frank Forster . In: Bild am Sonntag , [around April 17, 1960].
  3. ^ Günter Ehnert (Ed.): Hit balance sheet. German chart singles 1956–1980 . Taurus Press, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 , p. 75.
personal data
SURNAME Forster, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer, actor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2006