Tim Fischer

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Tim Fischer (2008)

Tim Fischer (born March 12, 1973 in Delmenhorst ; bourgeois Tim Jiménez Domínguez since 2008 ) is a German chansonnier and actor . His younger brother Denis Fischer is also a singer.

Life

Fischer grew up in Hude and attended elementary school there. Then he switched to the Waldorf School in Oldenburg . He discovered the chanson early on. Influenced by the film Lili Marleen by Rainer Werner Fassbinder , he began to listen to chanson records.

At the age of 15, Tim Fischer performed for the first time in front of a large audience. His first appearances took place in Oldenburg .

Tim Fischer moved to Hamburg when he was 17 . He worked in the Schmidt Theater and began to build his career as a chansonnier. Various appearances were made together with Rainer Bielfeldt .

In 1991 he moved to Berlin . Through his appearances on television (including: NDR talk show ), he became known to a wider audience and within a very short time he gained a large fan base in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In addition to cabaret theaters, he was also seen in city theaters and large concert halls, made films (with Werner Schroeter and Leander Haußmann, among others ) and appeared in radio plays. His first CDs were made in the mid-1990s. In February 1993 he presented the second chanson evening with his band in the Berlin cabaret establishment under the title When love goes out . In addition to the songs by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Peer Raben, the program mainly included texts by Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Wolf Wondratschek and Friedrich Hebbel . His first CD was created under the title When love goes out , including the song Rinnsteinprinzessin (with text by Edith Jeske ).

Tim Fischer (2006)

In 1993 he also overcame his alcohol and drug addiction and the third chanson program Because mir is so premiered in Berlin in October. On March 23, 1994, Tim Fischer presented his fourth program, And I like me, in an unconventional mix of classics and contemporary chansons in the Bar every reason . His second CD was released under the same title as a recording of a concert.

From December 5 to 12, 1994, the third CD by Tim Fischer Na so was was produced together with the Berlin pianist Thomas Dörschel in a co-production with Radio Bremen and Junge Theater Bremen . It contained old and new titles and recordings with guests Rainer Bielfeldt, Cora Frost and Hildegard Schmahl . On February 13 and 14, 1995, the album Duette was created , Tim Fischer's fourth CD, on which he can be heard together with Rainer Bielfeldt, Cora Frost, Daniel Morgenroth , Hildegard Schmahl and the Viennese chanson singer Lilli Walzer. On 8./9. In May of the same year he co-produced his fifth album Chansons with Radio Bremen .

Also in 1995, Tim Fischer was the youngest chansonnier to receive the German Cabaret Prize .

In 1996 a double CD was created in the broadcasting hall of Radio Bremen. The first part is the cycle Songs of a poor girl by Friedrich Hollaender , which Fischer recorded for the 100th birthday of the lyricist and composer. The songs are from the years 1921/22; Hollaender had written it for his first wife, Blandine Ebinger. Since the sheet music for the songs Jeheimnis der Blumen and With a hideous doll have been lost, the composer Serge Weber set them again so that the cycle could be heard in full for the first time in 60 years. The second CD contains a live recording from the Junge Theater Bremen .

In 1996 and 1997 Tim Fischer gave concerts in the Middle East ( Damascus , Cairo and Khartoum ) and in France ( Montpellier , Toulouse and Bordeaux ) at the invitation of the Goethe Institute .

In July 1997, recordings with songs by Georg Kreisler , Cora Frost and others were made under the title From Blue Glass . They contain four duets with the actress Rosel Zech .

In August 1997, Tim Fischer proved his acting talent in the cabaret program Nothing is Impossible - a joint theater production with Lisa Politt and Gunter Schmidt ( Herrchen's mistress ) and Rolf Claussen, which gave guest performances across the republic after starting at the Schmidt Theater in Hamburg and in January 1998 in a coproduction with Radio Bremen and the Junge Theater Bremen under the same title on CD.

In autumn 2000 Tim Fischer released the CD Romeo's Seance with new songs by Georg Kreisler, Cora Frost, Gilbert Bécaud , Leo Ferré and Jackson Browne .

On December 1, 2000, Tim Fischer's new program Walzer Delirium premiered in the Luftschloß in Berlin, in which he presented songs by Tom Waits , Rio Reiser , Freddie Mercury , Janis Ian , Udo Jürgens and Thomas Pigor , among others . “I love waltzes. It makes you dizzy, ”says Tim Fischer.

In September 2001 Tim Fischer presented his Kreisler program in the Berlin bar every Vernunft with the words: “ Now that Georg Kreisler has given his acclaimed farewell tour, I feel called upon to take on the torch of cultivated malice and continue to shine through German lands to let. "

In February 2002 Tim Fischer played under the direction of Werner Schroeter for the film Deux alongside Isabelle Huppert the role of Josephine Baker. This film premiered in Paris in November 2002.

Tim Fischer played in the world premiere of Georg Kreisler's one-man musical Adam Schaf hat Angst or: Das Lied vom Ende in the Berliner Ensemble in 2002 . In 2003 he was seen in a supporting role in Leander Haußmann's film Herr Lehmann (adaptation of the novel by Sven Regener ), at the end of 2005 in a Tatort (episode 615: Der doppelte Lott ) on ARD and in 2007 in Dani Levy's film Mein Führer - Die really truest truth about Adolf Hitler .

From autumn 2008 Tim Fischer, accompanied by Rainer Bielfeldt on the piano, went on tour on the occasion of his 20th stage anniversary with a revision of his program Zarah ohne Kleid (first in 1991), a musical homage to Zarah Leander . From 2009 onwards, Fischer and the pianist Rüdiger Mühleisen were also on the road with the Merciless Reckoning program put together by Georg Kreisler . Both programs were also released on CD. In 2010, Fischer performed the retrospective Das Konzert , which combined songs from programs from the past two decades. In the same year he started a new program with texts by Hildegard Knef under the title Tim Fischer singt ein Knef-Konzert , which is also available on CD.

After the premiere in Stuttgart's Renitenztheater in September 2011, Fischer went on tour with the program Satiriker sind nicht Lyriker , which was written by Gerhard Woyda , the theater's founder. He accompanied Fischer on the piano. A CD of the program was released in December 2011.

On November 17, 2012, Fischer's program That Was Good! Tim Fischer sings Georg Kreisler -Chanson's premiere, a homage to the lyricist and composer who died in November 2011, with whom Tim Fischer was friends for many years and who worked closely on several projects.

In October 2016 Tim Fischer goes on tour with Rainer Bielfeldt with his new program ABSOLUT.

Tim Fischer is committed to his project songs against AIDS for at AIDS ill people in the final stages and collect donations at his concerts in favor of Iceland Hospice in Zimbabwe .

Tim Fischer has been living in a registered partnership since 2008 .

Awards

Discography

  • ABSOLUTE (2016)
  • Three Stars (2014)
  • Beloved Songs (2013)
  • Satirists are not poets - Tim Fischer sings Gerhard Woyda (2011)
  • Tim Fischer sings a Knef concert (2011)
  • Tim Fischer sings Georg Kreisler's 'Merciless Reckoning' (2009)
  • Zarah without dress - DVD (2008; recorded in May 2008 in the Tipi at the Berlin Chancellery )
  • Zarah without dress (2008; recorded on April 6, 2008 in the Schmidt-Theater Hamburg)
  • Adam Schaf is Afraid (2007)
  • Rain (2005)
  • Tim Fischer sings Kreisler (2003)
  • Waltz Delirium (2001)
  • Romeo's Seance (2000)
  • Baby boy (1999)
  • Songs against AIDS (1998/1999)
  • Live on the Reeperbahn (1998)
  • Tim Fischer, Herrchens Frauchen & Rolf Claussen - Nothing is Impossible (1998)
  • Made of blue glass (1997)
  • Poor Girl's Songs (live double album, 1996)
  • Chansons (1995)
  • Duets (1995)
  • So what (1994)
  • ... and love me (1994)
  • When Love Runs Out (1993)

Web links

Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Foam in the head . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1994, p. 250-253 ( Online - May 2, 1994 ).
  2. ↑ Thomas Breuer: Chansonnier Tim Fischer got married , article in Delmenhorster Kreisblatt dated March 12, 2008 ( online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove it this notice. , accessed on September 15, 2012)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.dk-online.de  
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Tim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jiménez Domínguez, Tim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chansonnier and actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Delmenhorst