Gunter Köberl

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The tenor Gunter Köberl in May 2015

Gunter Köberl (born March 19, 1952 in Obertraun ) is an Austrian operetta singer ( tenor ).

Life

Gunter Köberl was born as the son of the "singing Seewirtes" Karl Köberl and his wife Martha in Obertraun. At his father's request, he was later to take over the catering business and therefore first attended the hotel management school in Salzburg .

He never wanted to become an innkeeper himself and took the entrance exam at the Salzburg Mozarteum without his father's knowledge . Because the lessons at the hotel management school could not be reconciled with the Mozarteum, Köberl ended his training at the hotel management school. During his training at the Mozarteum, he took part in a pop singing competition in the Salzburg Congress Center , which he won. He attracted the attention of the opera singer Ilse Kofol Pormann, who gave him free singing lessons every day in the free periods of the boarding school for 3 years and led him to the state examination in 1972 with Erich Kunz and Herbert Prikopa . Opera director Robert Filzwieser from the Klagenfurt City Theater was present at this examination and engaged Köberl. Under the directorship of Herbert Wochinz he was three years in the commitment for drama , operetta and opera at the Theater of Klagenfurt, where he worked in "Man of La Mancha" debuted .

At the hotel management school, Köberl met his future wife Leopoldine, an innkeeper from Wels , whom he married in 1973. Two years later he interrupted his stage career to take over the “Künstler-Pension Zeilinger - Rollschuhwirt” in Wels and the “Seewirt” in Obertraun / Salzkammergut . As a “roller skate owner”, he served drinks on roller skates and opera arias only played at curfew . He got involved in the youth and social sector and founded the "youth drinks" according to § 112 (4) GewO in all restaurants.

After he had decided to devote himself to both the hospitality industry and the theater, he started a tour of Austria and Germany after a 15-year break from the stage . He appeared in the Ljubljana Opera , in the city ​​theaters of Detmold , Luxembourg , Wiener Neustadt , Augsburg and Wels, in the Braschat Music Theater / Belgium and in the Vienna Operetta Theater as well as on the Munich Opera Theater and in more than a hundred benefit concerts and sang on the cruise ships MSC Musica and MSC Opera .

Guest performances took him to the health resorts of Bad Hall and Bad Zell , the Dominican House Steyr , cultural Timelkam in the Kurresidenz Oberlaa , to the festival Obertraun and he participated in a tour of the Labor part. Köberl is an integral part of the Welser Arkadenhof cultural summer (WAKS).

In his hometown of Obertraun he is considered to be the founder of the "Dachstein Ice Sound Concerts" because he was the first singer in the cave at the time for the wedding of an ice cave guide and sang in the cave at the celebration of the world cultural heritage .

The singer and restaurateur is the father of Melanie, a daughter born in 1973.

repertoire

operetta

Opera

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Pension Zeilinger accessed on March 27, 2014
  2. ^ "Youth drink" according to GewO accessed on March 27, 2014
  3. ^ Website of the Pension Zeilinger accessed on March 27, 2014
  4. ↑ Dachstein Tourismus AG website accessed on March 27, 2014
  5. ↑ Gunter Köberl in the "Salzkammergut-Rundblick", accessed on March 27, 2014
  6. ↑ Report of the award on the website of the Province of Upper Austria, accessed on March 27, 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Köberl, Gunter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Köberl – Marthyn, Gunter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian operetta singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Obertraun