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Marika Lichter (born Mariza Lichter in Vienna on October 24, 1949 ) is an Austrian singer , actress , and music manager .

Life and accomplishments

The daughter of a Polish father and a Hungarian mother, both Holocaust survivors, began playing the piano and taking dance lessons from the age of 3 . From the age of 12 she took piano lessons at the Vienna Conservatory and from the age of 14 she took singing lessons with Alice Gross-Jiresch. After graduating with a diploma in opera singing, further studies with Ruthilde Boesch followed .

After her theatrical debut as an operetta soubrette in the Raimund Theater in Vienna in 1971, she took part in one of her first major roles in the musical Mayflower at the Theater an der Wien from 1978 to 1979 . As Dolly in the Gräfin vom Naschmarkt with Marika Rökk , she premiered in 1979 at the Theater an der Wien. In 1980 she was on stage at the Robert Stolz Revue at the Theater an der Wien and at the Theater des Westens in Berlin .

From 1988 to 1991 she played in Les Misérables at the Raimund Theater , Into The Woods at the International Theater, Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti at the Perchtoldsdorf Summer Games and Pariser Leben at the Melk Summer Games.

In the musical Elisabeth in 1992 she was on stage at the premiere at the Theater an der Wien as Ludovika and Frau Wolf ( Uwe Kröger , who was managed by her, made her final breakthrough with the role of Death). The director of this production was Harry Kupfer .

In the children's TV series Die Rätselburg by Thomas Brezina , she played Lady Huberta von Humpelstein in over 50 episodes from 1997 to 2002. At the opening of the Seebühne Klagenfurt in 1997 she took part in the show That's Musical together with Uwe Kröger, Viktor Gernot and Ute Gfrerer. At the Mörbisch Seefestspiele she was seen and heard as Adelaide in The Bird Trader in 1998 .

From 1998 to 1999 she hosted her own esoteric television show. At the Maria Enzersdorfer Summer Games in 2000, lights worked in the piece Nur Ruhe! With. She played at the 2002 Summer Games in Laxenburg the Posse Don Giovanni's amorous adventures . A year later she appeared in Faust freely after Goethe . She was also active on television from 2003 to 2004, where she was the main juror of the second season at the Starmania casting show .

Together with Pia Douwes , Uwe Kröger, Viktor Gernot and Anna Maria Kaufmann , Marika Lichter went on tour in 2004 with the production of Musical Moments . In July and August 2005 she gave the world premiere of The Servant of Three Lords as Seraphine in Laxenburg . Marika Lichter danced with the dance professional Andy Kainz in the 1st season of the Austrian dance TV show Dancing Stars 2005 . In the final, she and her dance partner won against Toni Polster and Michaela Heintzinger. She donated her prize money as "Dancing Star" to Licht ins Dunkel .

At the Stadttheater in Klagenfurt she played from December 2005 to January 2006 and in July 2006 Jack's mother in Into the woods . At the Summer Games in Laxenburg in 2006 she played the role of Belinde in The Imaginary Sick . In July and August 2006 she played the role of Countess Stasa Kokozow in The Count of Luxembourg at the Mörbisch Sea Festival. In September 2006 the premiere of the play Csaterberg by Angelika Messner took place in Oberwart . Under the musical direction of Christian Kolonovits were u. a. Willi Resetarits and Wolfgang Ambros next to Marika Lichter on stage, who embodied the female lead.

In March and April 2007 she presented the new TV show I am sexy in five episodes on ATV . In summer 2007 she was back in Laxenburg, this time as Elsa von Laxenburg in the world premiere of Lohengrin von Laxenburg . On September 6, 2007, Marika Lichter took on the role of Mrs. van Hopper in the musical Rebecca by Sylvester Levay and Michael Kunze at the Raimundtheater.

Private

Lichter is divorced and has a son.

successes

Lichters records and CD recordings have been released in Austria , Europe and South America . She was a participant in international festivals such as B. Rio de Janeiro , Caracas , Mexico City , Havana , Athens . In addition to her theater appearances, she sang for five years in Gerhard Bronner's Cabaret Fledermaus and was a guest in television shows and series Strauss Dynasty , Calafati Joe or Schlosshotel Ort and others. a. Her new CD zeitlos was released in November 2006.

Discography

  • Adieu (1969)
  • I have a heartache (1970)
  • Again / Don't Pretend (1970)
  • Not kissed / men are like that
  • Then it will be nice again / alone
  • CD Musik ist Trumpf (2006) only 3 tracks: Music is Trumps / Play again for me, Habannero / Tipipipitipso

Awards

Publications

Web links

Commons : Marika Lichter  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gold Medal of Merit of the State of Vienna for Marika Lichter city hall correspondence of May 3, 2006 (accessed on June 14, 2010)
  2. ^ Vorarlberger Nachrichten: Decoration of Honor for Lights . Article dated June 9, 2017, accessed June 9, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Lights, Marika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lights, Mariza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna