Rajvinder Singh

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Rajvinder Singh (born January 4, 1956 in Kapurthala ; † December 16, 2021 in Berlin ) was a German-speaking author and voice actor of Indian origin. He lived in Berlin.

Life

Rajvinder Singh decided to devote himself to writing at the age of eleven after lying to his mother for the first time in his life and feeling so guilty about it that he drew up seven different versions of the lying story, none of which sounded believable. He then collected these texts under the title My Experiments with a Lie (an allusion to Gandhi's autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth ).

Singh came from a well-to-do family in the Indian Punjab . His father kicked him out of the house at the age of 16 because he wanted to take the author's path instead of studying medicine. He lived in the dormitory and initially worked at night in a cattle feed factory. Later, with the help of a professor, he translated Russian books from English into Punjabi and thus financed his studies. He became a student leader and campaigned for the underprivileged. Until 1991 he had no contact with his father. From then on he described the relationship with him as an aging friendship ; that is also the name of one of his poems.

His real date of birth was January 4, 1956. However, his father registered him with the date of birth October 10, 1953 so that he could start school earlier. Singh had two birthdays, and his publisher, Lotos Verlag Roland Beer, dedicated a volume to him in 2003 with 50 of his selected poems for his supposed 50th birthday, selected by long-term friends, authors and cultural partners, including Brigitte Burmeister , FC Delius , Ilija Trojanow , Georg Lechner, Dietger Pforte , Jochen Reinert and Uli and Franz Lebfromm .

He was a member of the New Society for Literature (NGL) and was elected to its board from 1987 to 1989. He was also a member of the PEN Center Germany , where he was strongly committed to the work of the Writers in Prison Committee.

After various positions in Europe, Singh lived in Berlin from 1981. He was married to the Indian painter Jyotika Sehgal and also had a daughter. He died after a brief serious illness on December 16, 2021, three weeks before his 66th birthday.

Voice actor

Through his work as a voice actor , his voice became known to a wide audience. In 2003 he dubbed Bernard White in the role of Indian Rama-Kandra in Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions . In 2004 he voiced Aasif Mandvi in the role of Mr. Aziz in Spider-Man 2 . This was followed by engagements for other films such as Departed - Unter Feinden , 96 Hours , The Losers , Pirates of the Caribbean - Curse of the Caribbean 2 and Crossing Over . In addition, he was also heard in various television series, such as in The Big Bang Theory, which ran from 2007 to 2019 as Dr. Rajesh Ramayan "Raj" Koothrappali, embodied by Kunal Nayyar . He also dubbed Bhasker Patel in the film Snowden (2016) about the whistleblower of the same name .

Awards

Publications

  • Reading book , 1995
  • Traces of the Roots , 1996
  • Rheinsberger Silence , 1997
  • Rheinsberg Rhapsodies , 1998
  • Shores of Time , 1999
  • Birds and other fish of the wind sea , 2001
  • Foreign literal existence. Poems from two decades , 2003
  • Word and body. Remscheid poems , 2005
  • Beyond the Horizon , 2006
  • Under trees over trees , 2007
  • Wordbrain , 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "The Big Bang Theory" speaker: German voice of "Raj" died. In: image. December 21, 2021, accessed December 21, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Singh, Rajvinder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indo-German poet, writer and voice actor
BIRTH DATE 4th January 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Kapurthala , India
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Berlin