Olivera Katarina

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Olivera Katarina ( Cyrillic  Оливера Катарина * 5. March 1940 in Belgrade , whose real name is Olivera Šakić ( Cyrillic  Оливера Шакић ), also Olivera Vuco ( Cyrillic  Оливера Вучо ), native Petrović ) is a known Yugoslav and Serbian actress and singer .

Life

Training and first appearances as an actress

Olivera was born in Belgrade as the daughter of the ship's captain Budimir Petrović and his wife Katarina . Her family moved frequently during the Second World War . The family lived in Dobanovci , Valjevo and Zemun, among others . Olivera attended primary school in Belgrade from 1947 to 1951. Meanwhile, she took ballet lessons in parallel. After primary school, Olivera attended the Second Belgrade Girls' High School from 1951 to 1955. At that time she also took piano lessons.

At her father's request, Olivera began studying law in 1958 , which she broke off because she realized that it did not meet her wishes and skills. At the age of almost nineteen, she traveled to Paris against her mother's wishes at the beginning of 1959 and took a language course at the Alliance française .

In September 1959, he signed up for the Belgrade Akademija Dramskih Umetnosti (Academy of Dramatic Arts). For the entrance exam she performed a Japanese poem and a monologue from a play by Lope de Vega . She passed the entrance exam and entered the class of Professor Ognjenka Milićević. Already after the first year she got an engagement at the renowned theater Atelje 212 . She first played in the play Kad je žena nema (1960) and later at the Narodno pozorište (National Theater) in the play Koštana , which was to be her first major success.

In a lightning wedding, she married the critic Vuk Vučo, but soon separated from him. In the following years she continued to play in the theater. In 1963 she got the leading role in the play Masna Čorba together with Nevenka Urbanova . At the last moment, however, Urbanova decided to leave the project. She was of the opinion that the piece was "not ideal as a comeback".

International success as an actress and singer

Olivera traveled to the Cannes Film Festival in 1966 with the film Vojnik . Even if her engagements at the theater did not suffer, she was fired. In the same year Olivera Katarina traveled a lot and was a guest of Pierre Cardin , who offered her to give a concert in his theater Espace Pierre Cardin . She also toured the United States , including appearing on the popular Johnny Charson Show . She often performed with Janika Balaž's (Janika Balázs) tamburica orchestra. In 1967 she closed the film festival in Cannes with a joint concert with Nana Mouskouri and Dionne Warwick . The RAI called her “the most distinctive Mediterranean voice”.

In Yugoslavia, her idiosyncratic voice leadership was ridiculed. Many were skeptical about the quality of their voice, which sounded "as if it came out of a throat that had been choked on a marble". It was said that the sound recordings had been reworked in the studio because "it was impossible to sing so fervently".

From 1967 to 1969 she set to ten EPs with songs in different languages. Among other things, Olivera Katarina sang in Japanese , Indonesian , Hebrew and in some African languages. As usual in the Yugoslav pop music scene of the time, she also covered some world hits, including Puppet On A String by Sandie Shaw and La felicidad . Her pop song Šu-Šu , in which she brought motifs from Serbian folklore, was particularly successful . The single Četiri balade (Four Ballads) was also highly valued .

In 1967 she played in the film Skupljači perja ( Die Federsammler , official German title: I even met happy gypsies ), which was awarded the “Grand Prix du Jury” in Cannes. That was the first major international success of the Yugoslav film. Olivera Katarina played the role of the pub singer Lenče in the film. Among other things, she interpreted the Roma song Đelem, đelem , which became internationally known as a result.

The New York Times wrote after the great success of Skupljaci perja : "The new Anna Magnani was born!", While the French press wrote: "Olivera Katarina needs Brigitte Bardot not envy!". Bruno Coquatrix , the director of the Paris Olympia , traveled to Belgrade to meet and invite Olivera Katarina. In 1968 she signed the contract and performed 72 times at the Olympia. The French composer Charles Dumont offered her several times to collaborate with him and Stu Phillips . He dedicated the song Jedan dan posle kraja sveta to her . The French chansonnier Gilbert Bécaud , who called her the "world's best ambassador of Yugoslavia", attended her concerts at the Paris Olympia . Salvador Dalí knelt in front of her after a concert with enthusiasm.

In 1969 she took part in the Yugoslav qualifications for the Eurovision Song Contest with the title Poigraj, poigraj, devojče . In the same year she played in the Italian film Fräulein Doktor and in the controversial German film Witches Tormented to the Blood , alongside Udo Kier .

On January 4, 1969, Olivera's mother Katarina died, which was a great shock for her. In honor of her mother, she was now called Olivera Katarina instead of Olivera Vučo as before. On February 1, 1970, she married Miladin Šakić and celebrated as her best man Branko Pešić, the Mayor of Belgrade, wished in the premises of the baroque Belgrade City Hall. Their son Mane was born on February 1, 1971.

In 1971 she played the Duchess of Alba in the German - Soviet coproduction Goya - or the arge path of knowledge . The film was shot for over a year in Leningrad , Berlin , on the Black Sea in Bulgaria and in Dubrovnik , among others . Kornelije Kovač wrote her the song Alba, inspired by the film . The Yugoslav premiere of the film was boycotted by the press , although the film had won major awards in Moscow and Venice .

Two years later, the Japanese composer Dome Suzuki offered her to take part in an international music festival in Tokyo with one of his songs in Japanese, representing Japan . In 1973 she took on other Suzuki tracks in Tokyo, which were set to music on the album Wakamono ha kaeranakatta i Koi ha . In Belgrade, these titles were never played on radio or television.

From 1974 to 1977 Olivera Katarina brought various singles and albums onto the market. She interpreted titles from various genres, such as pop, Roma music and Serbian folk music. She also recorded various musical show programs for Yugoslav television stations and worked with major Yugoslav composers.

The singer Olivera Katerina

In 1975 she sang for Josip Broz Tito and his wife Jovanka on Brijuni on New Year's Eve . In 1978 she sang again exclusively for Tito in Belgrade. In the same year she took part in the music festival in Opatija with the song Nikad 'ne zaboravi dane naše ljubavi . In 1979 she recorded a very successful album with the composer Kornelije Kovač in London . In 1980 she changed her musical style and set a popular album with Obren Pjevović. The album was very successful and achieved gold status. In 1982 Olivera worked with Milutinom Popović-Zahar. The LP Idu momci u vojnike was heavily inspired by the interval sequence (melos) of South Serbian music and also contained a song in Romanian .

Shortly before a media boycott, she set her last LP Retka zverka to music in 1984 . The album was carried by modern folk sounds , but was hardly noticed by the media. Since Olivera Katarina was unsustainable for the socialist regime due to her nationalist standpoints, all artistic activity was made impossible for her. She spent many years in isolation as a banned artist. She had to sell her apartment for financial reasons and move into a rental apartment.

Her son Mane later began studying theology. Then he studied art. Today he lives and works as a painter in Madrid. Only in 2005 did Olivera's life change again. She appeared with Marina Abramović in the performance Balcan Epic at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York with great success . Directed by Uroš Stojanović, she was back in front of the film camera in 2008 after 34 years in Čarlston za Ognjenku .

On June 19, 2008 she had her first big concert in Belgrade's Sava Centar . A second followed in November. In 2002 she published her autobiography Aristokratsko stopalo . A second, updated edition was published in 2006. She wrote the volume of poetry Beli badnjaci . She is also featured in a volume of poetry about Kosovo .

Filmography

movie theater

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  • 1964: Belo u belom
  • 1964: One i on
  • 1965: Akcija inspektora Rukavine
  • 1974: Partizani
  • 1978: Sedam plus sedam
  • 1979: Zarudela zora na Moravi
  • 1982: Jelena Gavanski
  • 1982: Urime, Urime
  • 1987: Vuk Karadžić

Theater roles

Narodno pozorište

  • Koštana
  • Infantekinja
  • Majstor Hanut
  • Igra interesa
  • Nikola Tesla

Atelje 212

  • Kad je žena nema

Discography

Singles

  • 1966 Nije to, ljudi, istina / Šošana / Ajde da igramo / Nedam, nedam (PGP RTB)
  • 1967 Ja ništa ne znam / Bosonoga Sendi (Marioneta) / Moj je ceo svet (Uno Tranquillo) / Tema iz filma "Jedan čovek, jedna žena" (PGP RTB)
  • 1967 Neću tebe (Doksa to teo) / Suliram / Svu noć je padao sneg / Jer ljubav to je miris belog cveća (PGP RTB)
  • 1967 Đelem, đelem / Rino / Trajo, trajo / Bida / Niška banja / Čerde Mile (Supraphon Prague)
  • 1968 Balade (PGP RTB)
  • 1969 Poigraj, poigraj, devojče (Evrovizija 1969) (PGP RTB)
  • 1969 Himna čoveku (PGP RTB)
  • 1969 Šu, šu / Tula / Baš sam srećna ja (La felicidad) / Eri (Irene Erini) (PGP RTB)
  • 1969 Ža, ža / Lidu, lidu / Verka kaluđerka / Kaljina, maljina (PGP RTB)
  • 1971 To je naše more, to su naše gore ... (Jugoton)
  • 1971 Vatra / Ljubav (PGP RTB)
  • 1971 Budi moj / Imam nešto da ti dam (PGP RTB)
  • 1971 Tam deka ima / Dimitrijo (PGP RTB)
  • 1972 Treperi jedno veče / Htela bih da znam (PGP RTB)
  • 1973 Wakamono ha kaeranakatta / Koi ha ... (Amon)
  • 1973 Alba / Plovi lađa Dunavom (PGP RTB)
  • 1974 Ne dodiruj moje lice / Ne reci nikom (PGP RTB)
  • 1974 Pričaj mi o ljubavi / Pada noć (PGP RTB)
  • 1975 Alaj mi je večeras po volji / Kamerav / Čep, čep u slavinu / Verka kaluđerka (PGP RTB)
  • 1975 Žena / Sada i nikada više (PGP RTB)
  • 1976 Sanjam / Bilo je tako lepo sve (PGP RTB)
  • 1977 Crvena jabuka / Sijerinska banja (PGP RTB)
  • 1978 Nikad ne zaboravi dane naše ljubavi / Slatke male laži (PGP RTB)

Albums

  • 1974 Olivera Katarina (PGP RTB)
  • 1974 Alaj mi je večeras po volji (TV Show) (PGP RTB)
  • 1976 OK (U ime ljubavi) (PGP RTB)
  • 1977 Ciganske pesme (PGP RTB)
  • 1979 Osvetnica (PGP RTB)
  • 1980 Zarudela zora na Moravi (PGP RTB)
  • 1982 Idu momci u vojnike (PGP RTB)
  • 1984 Retka zverka (PGP RTB)
  • 1999 Alaj mi je večeras po volji - Najlepše pesme (PGP RTS)
  • 1999 Romanija / Pleme moje ... (Renome)
  • 2009 Tajna (3 CDs) (PGP RTS)

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personal data
SURNAME Katarina, Olivera
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vučo, Olivera; Šakić, Olivera (married name); Petrović, Olivera (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgrade , Serbia