Rut Rex-Viehöver

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Rut Rex-Viehöver (born July 15, 1931 in Saarbrücken ) is a German singer , actress and musical artist .

Life

The daughter of a furniture dealer attended high school and ballet school. She received singing lessons from Johannes Treffny. In Zurich she took dance lessons with Mary Wigman and obtained her dancer diploma. On July 15, 1947, she married Oberleutnant a. D. of the Air Force and hypnotherapist Dr. Gerhard Rex. She became the mother of a son. She then applied to the state conservatory for admission to the acting class. She failed the entrance exam, but received approval to take the final exam before the stage cooperative in Frankfurt am Main , which she passed.

She received her first engagement under the stage name Rut Gerhard as a singer and dancer at the Saarbrücken Theater . She acted in musical comedies, including Irma in My Sister and I and most recently in Kiss Me, Kate .

For many years she worked exclusively as the manager of the Rex department store in Saarbrücken. It was only Peter Kreuder who prompted her to return as the daughter of Zarah Leander on September 5, 1958, when his musical Madame Scandaleuse was premiered at the Raimund Theater in Vienna .

On the occasion of the Berlin premiere of Madame Scandaleuse in the Titania-Palast on October 29, 1958, reporter Wolfgang Rademann changed her stage name to Rut Rex-Gerhard and finally to her real name Rut Rex. In doing so, he purposefully justified her future image as the sex bomb "Sexy Rexy". Then she was, among other things, a partner of Freddy Quinn in the musical Heimweh nach St. Pauli at the Operettenhaus in Hamburg in 1962 . At the Berlin radio tower she embodied Juliska in a mask in blue . After that, she interrupted her career again and became the mother of a son a second time. At the Theater an der Wien she then stood next to Freddy Quinn, homesick for St. Pauli .

In 1967 her first vocal recordings were made on vinyl. In 1969 she appeared for the first time as a Diseuse in the Lenbachhaus in Munich with sung texts by Erich Kästner . In 1970 she received a 45-minute television show entitled Sex Bomb With Tick . Several appearances on television programs followed, in which she mainly sang musical numbers. She continued to be on stage, for example in Berlin as the title character in The Sacrifice Helena .

On December 22, 1971 she was divorced from her previous husband, and on January 28, 1972 she married the ZDF program director Joseph Viehöver (1925–1973). Shortly afterwards her first long-playing record was released on EMI under the title Nice, that you are there . She worked as a supporting actress in several films. In Alter Kahn und Junge Liebe she gave with Why are men so tired? a vocal interlude. The ten-part series Help, my mother sings with her in the lead role, planned in 1972 , did not materialize.

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SURNAME Rex-Viehöver, Rut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rut Rex; Ruth Rex; Rut Rex-Gerhard; Ruth Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken