Iossif Davydowitsch Kobson

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Iosif Kobzon Davydovich ( Russian Иосиф Давыдович Кобзон * 11. September 1937 in Tschassow Jar , Donetsk Oblast , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union , † the 30th August 2018 in Moscow , Russia ) was a Soviet and Russian singer and politician.

Life

The Alexandrow Ensemble with Kobson in October 2009

Family and education

Kobson came from a Jewish family and grew up in simple circumstances in the Donets Basin . During the Second World War, the family was evacuated to Jangijul near Tashkent in Uzbekistan because of their Jewish origins . Kobson's father fought in the Red Army, was badly wounded in 1943 and treated in Moscow. There he met another woman and did not return to his family after the war.

The young Iossif and his mother moved back to the Ukraine in 1944, where they settled in Kramatorsk . There he practiced in his youth to the sport of boxing , and later studied mining engineering at the University in Dnepropetrovsk .

After his military service, he completed musical training at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow from 1958 to 1962 . In the following decades the baritone became one of the most popular singers in the Soviet Union .

In 1983 Kobson was accused of performing Jewish songs at an official event, and he was expelled from the CPSU , but soon afterwards rehabilitated. Even after the collapse of the Soviet Union , Kobson successfully continued his career in Russia.

Political and social engagement

Kobson was chairman of the public relations committee of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia and a member of the ruling United Russia party . Kobson had been a member of the Duma since 1997 .

Kobson 2012 with Putin

Kobson has been referred to repeatedly as the "Russian Frank Sinatra ". The characterization related partly to his level of awareness or his singing style , but occasionally also to his alleged contacts to organized crime. In 1995 his visa for the USA was revoked for this reason. Kobson was considered a close confidante of the former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov .

During the hostage-taking in Moscow's Dubrovka Theater in 2002, Kobson went to negotiations with the hostage-takers, and in the process brought a woman and three children out of the building.

Kobson, whose family roots lie in the Donetsk region, has repeatedly publicly expressed his support for the so-called People 's Republics of Lugansk and Donetsk , which were proclaimed during the war in Ukraine in 2014 , and pretended to be the Moscow “honorary consul” of the latter. He was involved in the organization of Russian "aid convoys" and appeared several times in Donetsk together with separatist leader Alexander Sakharchenko . Through this, he was naturalized in its People's Republic in 2016.

In addition to his commitment to the idea of ​​a “ New Russia ”, Kobson was a prominent proponent of the Russian annexation of Crimea . As a result, he was banned from entering Ukraine and Latvia in 2014 , and in February 2015 he was included in an expanded sanctions list of the European Union , which he ostensibly welcomed. Nonetheless , through the advocacy of Vladimir Putin , Kobson, who had prostate cancer , managed to obtain an entry permit into the member states of the European Union for medical treatment.

Honors

During his career, Kobson received many state awards, including the State Prize of the USSR and the People's Artist of the USSR Award . In December 1991 he was also honored as People's Artist of Ukraine . In 2012 he was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland 1st Class. In April 2016, he was awarded the title Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation .

Web links

Commons : Iossif Kobson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Rusif Huseynov: Sanctions on Russia: The case of Iosif Kobzon ( Memento from October 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). On September 21, 2015 on neweasterneurope.eu
  2. ↑ David MacFadyen (Ed.): Red Stars - Personality and the Soviet Popular Song, 1955-1991 . McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal 2001, ISBN 0773521062 . P. 101 ( excerpts online )
  3. ↑ Maria Podolskaja: Иосиф КОБЗОН: "На всех ее не хватит" On December 16, 2001 on izvestia.ru
  4. ↑ a b Manfred Quiring: A Russian rocker moves into the Duma . On January 30, 2010 on welt.de
  5. ↑ Walter Mayr: In the Land of the Golden Mountains On September 30, 2002 on spiegel.de
  6. ↑ Manfred Quiring : The FBI arrested a godfather of the Russian mafia - the Moscow Interior Ministry wishes 100 years in prison for him; In New York, the "little Japanese" went online . On July 13, 1995 on berliner-zeitung.de
  7. ↑ Andre Ballin, Patrizia Reidl: Article in Luschkow does not give up without a fight ( Memento from January 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). On September 29, 2010 onwirtschaftsblatt.at
  8. ↑ "Норд-Ост" ( memento from July 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on Agentura.ru
  9. ^ André Ballin: Ukrainian transmitter attacked . On January 4th, 2015 on fr-online.de
  10. ↑ Гуманитарная колонна МЧС с новогодними подарками для детей Донбасса выехала из Подмосковья . On December 18, 2014 on ukraina.ru
  11. ↑ Год ДНР . April 7, 2015 on gazeta.ru
  12. ↑ Alexander Gamow: "Ну, пускай стреляют ... А попадут - не испугаемся" . On June 25, 2016 on kp.ru
  13. ↑ Alexander Gamow: Иосиф Кобзон стал гражданином ДНР . On June 26, 2016 on kp.ru
  14. ↑ Иосиф Кобзон дал концерт в Донецке . On June 26, 2016 on tass.ru
  15. ^ Christian Neef: The Chaos Republics . On November 3, 2014 on spiegel.de
  16. ↑ IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/240 OF THE COUNCIL of 9 February 2015 implementing Regulation (EU) No. 269/2014 on restrictive measures in the face of acts that undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine , in the Official Journal of the European Union L 40/7 of February 16, 2015. At ausfuhrkontrolle.info, accessed on October 22, 2016 ( PDF ; approx. 349 kB, p. 5)
  17. ^ Daniel Brössler: Putin's Bard . On February 16, 2015 on sueddeutsche.de
  18. ↑ Natalia Reibmann: Кобзон и Моторола попали под санкции Евросоюза on February 15, 2015 on vedomosti.ru
  19. ↑ Ostar Zhukov: Путин добился лечения Кобзона в Европе в обход санкций on August 28, 2015 on mk.ru
  20. ↑ Honors . From iosifkobzon.ru, accessed October 22, 2016
  21. ↑ Tatiana Smorodinskaya, Karen Evans-Romaine, Helena Goscilo (eds.): Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Russian Culture . Routledge Publishing , Abingdon 2007, ISBN 9780415320948 . P. 302 ( excerpts online )
  22. ↑ УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТ УКРАЇНИ - Про присвоєння Кобзону Й.Д. почесного звання "Народний артист України" , Decree of the President of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk , dated December 27, 1991 on the awarding of the honorary title “People's Artist of Ukraine” to Kobson. From zakon1.rada.gov.ua, accessed October 22, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  23. ↑ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 04.21.2016 № 189 "О присвоении звания Героя Труда Российской Федерации" , decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin , on the award of the title "Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation". From publication.pravo.gov.ru, accessed October 22, 2016 (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Kobson, Iossif Davydowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кобзон, Иосиф Давыдович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet singer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Chasov Yar , Donetsk Oblast , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 2018
Place of death Moscow , Russia