Ivan Rebroff

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Ivan Rebroff (2006)

Ivan Rebroff , real name Hans Rolf Rippert (born July 31, 1931 in Berlin - Spandau ; † February 27, 2008 in Frankfurt am Main ), was a German singer with a bass voice who had a vocal range of more than four thanks to his falsetto voice Possessed octaves. He is registered in the 1993 Guinness Book of Records as the person with the broadest vocal range in the world (4½ octaves).

Life

Rebroff was born as Hans Rolf Rippert in the Berlin district of Spandau as the son of the engineer Paul Rippert (* 1897 in Liebenwerda ) and his wife Luise Fenske (* 1896 in Bromberg ). He was the younger brother of the future ZDF sports reporter Horst Rippert (1922-2013). There are various unconfirmed legends about his ancestors, according to which the mother was of Russian, the father of Jewish-Russian descent.

Rebroff grew up in Belzig and Halle (Saale) , where he was a member of the Stadtsingechor . He later lived alternately in Zell-Weierbach , in a small hunting lodge near Hunoldstal and on the Greek island of Skopelos .

Rebroff studied singing at the State University of Music in Hamburg from 1951 to 1959 as a Fulbright scholar . His singing teacher Adolf Detel made him an interpreter of Eastern European songs. In 1958, Rebroff won the German University Competition. Then he was a singer in the Black Sea Cossack Choir and in the Ural Cossack Choir . Membership in the Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff is at least doubtful, despite multiple statements. In 1960 he won first prize at the 9th ARD International Music Competition in Munich .

Rebroff became known through the role of the milkman Tevje in the musical Anatevka in the Théâtre Marigny on the Parisian Champs-Élysées , where he gave over 1,400 performances. He then took part in various touring productions and feature films, including Der Barber von Sevilla , Boris Godunow , Der Zigeunerbaron , Wiener Blut and Der Rosenkavalier . There were also appearances in numerous television programs. He gave concerts in concert halls, churches and at gala events, most recently in December 2007 in the Vienna Votive Church . Based on The Three Tenors , Rebroff occasionally performed with Gunther Emmerlich and Günter Wewel as The Three Basses .

In 1985 Rebroff was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in recognition of his achievements in promoting international understanding between East and West . He was also an honorary citizen of the Greek island of Skopelos from the age of 60 .

Rebroff has received a total of 49 gold records worldwide and one platinum record for 10 million LPs sold since 1975.

pseudonym

The pseudonym Rebroff is derived from the Russian translation ребро (rebro) of the German word Rippe . Ivan is the Russian form of Johannes or Hans . In keeping with this pseudonym, Rebroff wore a powerful full beard and at events and on official photos he always wore a traditional Russian fur hat and matching folklore clothing. This staging and his slight accent always made him appear like a “real Russian”, as some imagined him to be based on clichés that were widespread in West Germany at the time.

Legal dispute against the Alois Müller dairy

In 1994 Rebroff successfully sued the Müller dairy for violating his personal rights. The dairy had used a double in a commercial because they did not want to pay Rebroff the fee. The Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court ruled Rebroff and sentenced Müller to retrospectively pay license fees of 155,000 D-Marks .

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE
1967 Folk tunes from ancient Russia DE14 (28 weeks)
DE
1968 Slavic soul DE11 (10 weeks)
DE
with Tatjana Iwanow , Dunja Rajter , & Balalaika-Ensemble Troika
Folk tunes from ancient Russia 2nd episode DE17 (12 weeks)
DE
Well Zdarovye DE17 (10 weeks)
DE
1969 At the sound of the balalaika DE20 (12 weeks)
DE
1970 Russian party DE30 (2 weeks)
DE
Cossacks have to ride DE4 (17 weeks)
DE
1971 My Russia, you are beautiful DE16 (11 weeks)
DE
1972 Star portrait DE20 (8 weeks)
DE
1980 Magic of a great voice DE20 (6 weeks)
DE

More studio albums

  • 1986: ... and peace on earth
  • 1986: I pray to the power of love
  • 1986: My Russian Homeland
  • 1988: the magic of a great voice
  • 1988: Ivan Rebroff: His greatest operatic successes
  • 1988: In Concert
  • 1989: perestroika
  • 1989: Ave Maria: Festive evening music with Ivan Rebroff
  • 1991: Come with me to Hellas
  • 1997: Christmas with Ivan Rebroff
  • 1997: Crowning of a great career
  • 1998: Musical gems from the land of the light muse
  • 1998: Spring in the taiga
  • 1999: The most beautiful voice in Russia
  • 1999: And Peace on Earth
  • 1999: Kalinka
  • 1999: From the World
  • 2002: My trip around the world
  • 2004: if I were once rich
  • 2005: Russian Christmas
  • 2005: Golden Star
  • 2005: Voice of Gold
  • 2005: Plaisir d'Amour
  • 2008: Immortal
  • Request concert
  • My russian soul
  • A Moscou
  • Taiga dreams
  • Memories of Russia
  • Boris Godounov
  • Johann Strauss , Die Fledermaus : Prinz Orlofsky, director Carlos Kleiber , Deutsche Grammophon 1975

Live albums

  • 1968: Live in Concert, Recitals 1968

Compilations

  • 1994: Kalinka Malinka: Greatest Hits
  • 1995: The Very Best of Ivan Rebroff, Vol.1
  • 2001: Ivan Rebroff: His greatest successes
  • 2006: 75 years
  • 2008: great successes

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE
1967 The legend of the 12 robbers DE28 (8 weeks)
DE
( Жили двенадцать разбойников )

More singles

  • Evening bells ( Вечерний звон )
  • Thank you sir
  • The lonely bell ( Однозвучно гремит колокольчик )
  • The Legend of the Twelve Robbers ( Жили двенадцать разбойников )
  • A white birch
  • Havah Nagila
  • I pray to the power of love ( Коль славен )
  • In the deep cellar
  • Kalinka
  • Katyusha
  • With the troika in the big city
  • Moscow Nights ( Подмосковные вечера )
  • O Isis and Osiris
  • Black eyes ( Очи черные )
  • Stenka Razin ( Стенька Разин )
  • If I were rich (from the musical Anatevka )
  • Wolgalied (from the operetta Der Zarewitsch )
  • Volga tug

Video albums

  • 1968: Live in Concert (DVD)

Radio plays

Web links

Commons : Ivan Rebroff  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Guinness Book of Records 1993 .
  2. ↑ Matthias Bardong (Ed.): The Lexicon of German Schlager. 2nd Edition. Schott, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-7957-8208-2 , pp. 264-265.
  3. ↑ Ivan Rebroff biography. In: musicforum.de. January 23, 2020, accessed on July 7, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ Ivan Rebroff died: The Russian soul brought to Germany . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed July 7, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Singer Ivan Rebroff is dead. In: stern.de. February 28, 2008, accessed July 7, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Famous students in the Francke Foundations Rippert, Hans (Ivan Rebroff).
  7. ↑ Chronicle, the story of a legend. Black Sea Cossack Choir, accessed July 6, 2020 .
  8. ^ "Ural Kosaken Chor": The years after the war from 1951–1972 ( Memento from February 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ); The contemporary choir since 1984 ( Memento from February 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Ivan Rebroff's official website: biography .
  10. ↑ "Although the gold medal for the singers at the 9th International Music Competition fell to Germany, it was awarded for an Eastern voice: Iwan Rebroff, who legitimized himself as a sensitive singer of three Michelangelo songs by Hugo Wolf at the chamber music evening, is a heroic baritone with a beautiful Material whose effect is equally impressive in the lyrical piano moments and in the forte outbursts. ”In: Abendzeitung, Munich, September 22, 1960.
  11. ↑ Ivan Rebroff is dead . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 28, 2008.
  12. ↑ Peter Weiss: Again, for the given occasion: On the amount of compensation for pain and suffering according to Section 15 (2) AGG . (PDF; 481 kB) In: Journal for Labor and Anti-Discrimination Law. No. 1/2009, p. 6.
  13. ↑ Müller-Milch has to pay Rebroff. In: Lebensmittel Zeitung , February 6, 1998.
  14. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE
  15. ↑ Ivan Rebroff -… And Friede Auf Erden , Discog, 2 CD, Elisar Records
personal data
SURNAME Rebroff, Ivan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rippert, Hans Rolf (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer with a bass voice
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Spandau
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 2008
Place of death Frankfurt am Main