Ute Lemper

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Ute Lemper (2008)

Ute Gertrud Lemper (born July 4, 1963 in Münster ) is a German musical artist , chanson singer and actress .

Musicals and singing

Ute Lemper's birthplace

Ute Lemper attended St. Mauritz high school in Münster and received piano and ballet lessons. She studied dance at the Institute for Stage Dance in Cologne and acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna . In 1982 she took part in the first pop course in Hamburg, but was brought to Vienna by Peter Weck after half time . Lemper was seen there in the first German-language production of Cats . In addition, she was with Peter Pan and The Blue Angel . For the German version of the Disney film Arielle, the Mermaid (dubbing from 1989) she sang the part of the main female character Arielle . She played in the musical Cabaret in Paris and in the musical Chicago first in London . In the Disney film The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), she sang the part of the main female character Esmeralda . She performed on Broadway in New York and appeared on Starlight Express .

Ute Lemper is an interpreter of Kurt Weill works. She is particularly interested in composers and authors from the interwar period and the war years, especially from the cabaret. Her collaboration with Michael Nyman is also worth mentioning.

Ute Lemper (2009)

Discography

  • 1986: Ute Lemper sings Kurt Weill
  • 1987: Life is a Cabaret
  • 1988: chants Kurt Weill
  • 1989: Crimes of the Heart
  • 1990: Ariel, the mermaid
  • 1990: The Threepenny Opera
  • 1990: The Seaven Deadly Sins
  • 1990: The Wall Live in Berlin
  • 1991: Songbook (songs by Michael Nyman )
  • 1991: Live great tour success
  • 1992: Illusions
  • 1993: Ute Lemper sings Kurt Weill Vol. 2
  • 1993: Espace Indecent
  • 1995: Portrait of Ute Lemper
  • 1995: City of Strangers
  • 1996: Berlin Cabaret Songs
  • 1997: Nuits Étranges
  • 1998: The Very Best of Ute Lemper
  • 2000: Punishing kiss
  • 2002: But One Day
  • 2005: Blood and Feathers
  • 2008: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
  • 2012: Paris Days, Berlin Nights
  • 2013: Forever - The Love Poems of Pablo Neruda
  • 2015: The 9 Secrets

Film and television series

Ute Lemper made a brief appearance in Robert Altman's film Prêt-à-Porter in 1994 . She appears as a heavily pregnant model , even naked at the end of the film. When asked what her belly meant, she replied: "Big fish in the aquarium" (in the original: "Big fish in the trunk").

In 1985 she played a supporting role alongside Stephan Remmler in the film Three Against Three . In 1987 she had a series role as Peggy Brinkley in the ZDF series Das Erbe der Guldenburgs .

She played leading roles in French film productions such as Moscou Parade , Coupable d'innocence and most recently in 1997 in the thriller Der Mann im Lift ( Combat des fauves ) directed by Benoît Lamy , in which she tortures Richard Bohringer, who is stuck in the elevator, as femme fatale . She also played an aging porn actress in George Milton's Appetite (1998) opposite Trevor Eve and starred in A River Made to Drown In (1997) with Richard Chamberlain .

She also appeared in Ilona Ziok's internationally award-winning cabaret film Kurt Gerron's Carousel , which celebrated its world premiere in 1999 in the Panorama section of the Berlinale. In it she sang The Moritat by Mackie Messer , whose first interpreter in the theater had been Kurt Gerron .

Filmography (cinema productions)

Other television appearances

In 1991 Lemper performed as a vertical rope artist as part of the Stars in the Manege charity event . In 2007 Lemper was a member of the jury for the first seven episodes of the second season of the RTL dance show Let's Dance , in the final of the show she was represented by Dieter Bohlen , as she had a concert obligation . In February 2015 she was a candidate for Celebrity Shopping Queen and won the show in front of Susan Sideropoulos .

Private life

Ute Lemper's marriage to the US comedian David Tabatsky resulted in a son (* 1994) and a daughter (* 1996). For her engagements in New York she moved to the United States in 1998 with her then two children. Today she lives in the USA , on the Upper West Side in New York City . She has two sons (* 2005, * 2011) with the musician Todd Turkisher , who goes on tour with her as a drummer and whom she married in 2011.

Awards

In 1987 Lemper won a Bambi , which she returned the following year (like Klausjürgen Wussow and Thomas Gottschalk and Katarina Witt in 1989 ) in protest against the reports in the magazines of the Burda publishing group .

Nominations

  • 1989: Laurence Olivier Award, for her Kurt Weill evening
  • 1992: Nika , for her role in the film Moscou Parade
  • 2013: Grammy , for her album “Paris Days, Berlin Nights” in the category Best Classical Solo Voice

Film about Ute Lemper

  • 2002: Ute Lemper - There is no Paradise . Documentation, 60 min., Director: Christoph Rüter. * Table of contents from Christoph Rüter Filmproduktion

Literary works

  • Ute Lemper: Uncensored. Verlag Henschel, Berlin 1995 (autobiography)

Web links

Commons : Ute Lemper  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Das Erste : Inas Nacht , 0:10 a.m., November 2, 2013
  2. ↑ The life of Ute Lemper ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Lemper became a mom again
  4. ↑ Münchner Merkur : Keyword: Bambi , April 12, 2009
  5. ↑ a b c WDR : Ute Lemper and the WDR Big Band: world-famous, professional - and by you ( memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrieved on @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wdr3.de
  6. ↑ a b iMDb : Ute Lemper
  7. ^ Deutsche Welle : Musical star Ute Lemper turns 50 , July 3, 2013
  8. ↑ theatreworldawards.org: Theater World Award Recipients
  9. ^ Süddeutsche de GmbH, Munich Germany: Ute Lemper receives honorary award from the Musical Academy. Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 22, 2017, accessed on August 25, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Die Welt : German Hope at Grammy Awards: Ute Lemper and Hans Zimmer , February 7, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Lemper, Ute
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lemper, Ute Gertrud (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer, dancer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster