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Name
  
Ute Lemper

Website
  
www.utelemper.com


Years active
  
1987–present

Occupation(s)
  
Singer, actress

Role
  
Singer · utelemper.com

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Born
  
4 July 1963 (age 61) Munster, West Germany (
1963-07-04
)

Spouse
  
Todd Turkisher (m. 2011), David Tabatsky (m. 1994–2001)

Movies
  
Roger Waters: The Wall: Live in Berlin

Albums
  
Berlin Cabaret Songs, Paris Days - Berlin Nights, Punishing Kiss, All That Jazz: The Best of Ut, Life Is a Cabaret

Profiles

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Ute Lemper (born 4 July 1963) is a German singer and actress renowned for her interpretation of the work of Kurt Weill. Her numerous roles in musicals include playing Sally Bowles in the original Paris production of Cabaret, for which she won the 1987 Molière Award for Best Newcomer, and Velma Kelly in the revival of Chicago in both London and New York, which won her the 1998 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical.

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Biography

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Born in Münster, Germany, Ute Gertrude Lemper was raised in a Roman Catholic family. She joined the jazz-rock music group known as the Panama Drive Band at the age of 16. Later, she graduated from the Dance Academy in Cologne and the Max Reinhardt Seminary Drama School in Vienna.

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Her diverse credits include musicals, such as her breakthrough role in the original Viennese cast of Cats, the title role in Peter Pan, a recreation of the Marlene Dietrich-created Lola in The Blue Angel, the original European Sally Bowles in a Paris production of Cabaret, and Velma Kelly in Chicago (Lemper has played the role of Velma Kelly in Chicago in both London and New York. She won the Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in London). She also dubbed the singing voices of Ariel in Disney's The Little Mermaid and Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame for German-speaking audiences.

In 1991 Ute Lemper participated in the Sanremo Music Festival with song The Photograph, written by Italian songwriter Enzo Jannacci.

A painter in the neoclassical style, Lemper's paintings have been showcased in numerous galleries.

Lemper, a mother of four, resides on the Upper West Side section of Manhattan in New York City. She performs worldwide, recently in the Middle East. Her autobiography was published in Berlin in 1995. She has also authored several journal articles.

Film and television work

She starred as Marie Antoinette for L'Autrichienne (1989, directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre), and subsequently appeared in films such as Prorva, Bogus, Jean Galmot, aventurier, Prospero's Books, Appetite and Prêt-à-Porter (in the latter appearing in a well-publicised nude scene filmed while she was pregnant, and she received National Board of Review for Ensemble Cast award). She has contributed to the soundtracks of numerous films, including The Voyager, Kissing Jessica Stein and Appetite.

In 2007, Lemper was a juror in Let's Dance, the German version of Dancing with the Stars.

Recording

Lemper, named Billboard's Crossover Artist of the Year for 1993/1994, is a prolific recording artist, appearing on numerous cast recordings and compilation concerts, including Roger Waters' "The Wall" concert in 1990. As a solo artist, her extensive discography includes ubiquitously well-reviewed interpretations of Kurt Weill's compositions from the late 1980s, in addition to German cabaret songs, which were very political songs sung in underground locations in 1930s Berlin and elsewhere. She recorded Illusions in 1992, devoted to the songs of Marlene Dietrich and Édith Piaf. She has numerous pop albums, variously in English, French, and German, and 2000s lauded modern Punishing Kiss. Punishing Kiss featured songs written especially for her by the likes of Scott Walker, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Philip Glass, and Neil Hannon, the latter of whom performed with her on two of the album's tracks. Lemper is known for wild interpretations on discs like the Sondheim tribute City of Strangers, containing a particularly mannered version of the Elaine Stritch-popularized song "The Ladies Who Lunch". In 1998, a Lemper compilation, All That Jazz: The Best of Ute Lemper, was released. In 2003 and 2006, Lemper's songwriting talents were shown on her discs from those years as she moved from being an interpretive singer to a singer/songwriter.

Discography

  • Cats (original German cast recording, 1983)
  • Ute Lemper Singt Kurt Weill (1987)
  • Life is a Cabaret (1987)
  • Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill (1988)
  • Starlight Express (original German cast recording, 1988)
  • I Dreamed a Dream (1988)
  • Crimes of the Heart (1989)
  • Die Dreigroschenoper (1990)
  • The Seven Deadly Sins (1990)
  • The Wall - Live in Berlin (1990)
  • Arielle, die Meerjungfrau (1990)
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber Welterfolge (1990)
  • Prospero's Books (1991)
  • Ute Lemper Live: Ihre Grossen Tournee-Erfolge (1991)
  • The Michael Nyman Songbook (1991)
  • Homo Faber (1991)
  • Guarda La Fotografia (1991)
  • Illusions (1992)
  • Prorva (1992) / Прорва
  • Komisch' Wetter (1992)
  • Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill - Volume 2 (1993)
  • Espace Indécent (1993)
  • Portrait of Ute Lemper (1995)
  • City of Strangers: Songs by Sondheim, Prévert... (1995)
  • Die Eisprinzessin (1995)
  • Birds in Cages (1995)
  • Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame (1996)
  • Bogus (1996)
  • Berlin Cabaret Songs (versions in English and German, 1996/1997)
  • Nuits Étranges (1997)
  • All That Jazz: The Best of Ute Lemper (1998)
  • Chicago (London cast recording, 1998)
  • Kurt Gerrons Karussell (1999)
  • Punishing Kiss (2000)
  • Little Water Song (2000)
  • But One Day... (2002, Decca/Universal Classics)
  • Blood & Feathers: Live from the Café Carlyle(2005)
  • Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (2009)
  • Paris Days, Berlin Nights (2012)
  • Forever: The Love Poems of Pablo Neruda (2013)
  • The 9 Secrets (Based on texts from Paulo Coelho's book "Manuscript Found in Accra") (2015)
  • Filmography

    Actress
    2020
    Rendezvous with Marlene (TV Movie) as
    Ute Lemper / Marlene Dietrich
    2014
    Magic in the Moonlight as
    Cabaret Singer
    2003
    Aurélien (TV Movie) as
    Rose Melrose
    2002
    The Little Mermaid DVD Read-Along (Video short) as
    Ariel
    1998
    Appetite as
    Greta
    1997
    River Made to Drown In as
    Eva Kline
    1997
    Wild Games as
    Carole Valmer
    1996
    Bogus as
    Babette
    1996
    Tales from the Crypt (TV Series) as
    Jacqueline
    - Smoke Wrings (1996) - Jacqueline
    1995
    Rage and Outrage: The Dreyfus Affair (TV Movie)
    1994
    Jiggery Pokery (TV Movie) as
    Lena
    1994
    Ready to Wear as
    Albertine
    1992
    Moscow Parade as
    Anna
    1992
    Der Blaue Engel (Video) as
    Lola Fröhlich
    1992
    Coupable d'innocence ou quand la raison dort as
    Catherine Gless
    1991
    Not Mozart: Letters, Riddles and Writs (TV Movie) as
    Mozart
    1991
    Pierre qui brûle as
    Hanna
    1991
    Prospero's Books as
    Ceres
    1990
    Jean Galmot, aventurier as
    Arlette Simon
    1990
    L'Autrichienne as
    Marie-Antoinette
    1987
    Das Erbe der Guldenburgs (TV Series) as
    Peggy Brinkley
    - Das bittere Ende (1987) - Peggy Brinkley
    - Kopf oder Zahl (1987) - Peggy Brinkley
    - Die endlose Nacht (1987) - Peggy Brinkley
    - Der neue Anfang (1987) - Peggy Brinkley
    - Die große Liebe (1987) - Peggy Brinkley
    - Das rote Kleid (1987) - Peggy Brinkley
    - Das offene Messer (1987) - Peggy Brinkley
    - Das schnelle Geld (1987) - Peggy Brinkley
    1986
    Ein Stück aus ihrem Leben (TV Series short)
    - Der Wanderpokal (1986)
    1985
    Drei gegen drei as
    Marianne
    Writer
    2020
    Rendezvous with Marlene (TV Movie) (creator)
    Producer
    2020
    Rendezvous with Marlene (TV Movie) (producer)
    Soundtrack
    2019
    The Whistlers (performer: "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer")
    2016
    Paris Can Wait (performer: "Que Reste-t-il de nos Amours ?", "Je te veux")
    2014
    Magic in the Moonlight (performer: "It's All a Swindle (Alles Schwindel)")
    2013
    Die Harald Schmidt Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Show #197 - Weihnachtsberatung (2013) - (performer: "La nuit dans l'île")
    -
    Der Salon am Dienstag (TV Series) (music - 1 episode, 2012) (performer - 1 episode, 2012)
    - Episode dated 20 November 2012 (2012) - (music: "If You Forget Me") / (performer: "If You Forget Me")
    2005
    So You Think You Can Dance (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Top 6 (2005) - (performer: "All That Jazz")
    2005
    Romance & Cigarettes (performer: "Little Water Song")
    2004
    Estradilla: Huips! (TV Special) (performer: "They call me Naughty Lola")
    2001
    Kissing Jessica Stein (performer: "When the Special Girlfriend")
    1998
    Legionnaire (performer: "Mon Légionnaire")
    1998
    Appetite (performer: "Whenever we get close (we fall apart)")
    1996
    Die Eisprinzessin (TV Movie) (performer: "Wilde Vögel")
    1992
    Ute Lemper: Illusions (TV Special) (performer: "Illusions", "Allein", "Lili Marlene", "Black Market", "Jonny, Wenn du Geburtstag Hast", "Falling in Love Again", "Lola", "Milord", "Elle Fréquentait la Rue Pigalle", "Les Feuilles Mortes", "L'Accordéoniste", "Polichinelle", "La Vie en Rose", "Non, je ne Regrette rien", "Setting the Scene", "Berlin", "Paris", "Rendez-vous dans l'Irréel")
    1991
    Pierre qui brûle ("Idö Van", "Trouble Man")
    1991
    Voyager (performer: "Careless Love")
    1991
    Querido cabaret (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Episode #1.10 (1991) - (performer: "Bilbao Song", "The Saga of Jenny")
    1990
    The Wall: Live in Berlin (Video documentary) (performer: "The Thin Ice", "The Trial")
    1989
    Ute Lemper: A Concert from the 1989 Bath International Festival (TV Movie) (performer: "Mack The Knife", "Surabaya Johnny", "Johnny", "Youkali", "My Ship")
    Self
    2023
    Brisant (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 11 June 2023 (2023) - Self
    2019
    Riverboat - Die MDR-Talkshow aus Leipzig (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 9 June 2023 (2023) - Self
    - Episode dated 1 March 2019 (2019) - Self
    2023
    Titel, Thesen, Temperamente (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 4 June 2023 (2023) - Self
    2012
    Kölner Treff (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 2 June 2023 (2023) - Self
    - Episode dated 15 April 2016 (2016) - Self
    - Episode dated 19 October 2012 (2012) - Self
    2022
    Die grosse Terra X Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - 40 Jahre Terra X - Die große Terra X-Show zum Geburtstag der Erfolgsmarke (2022) - Self
    2022
    Quizduell (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 17 June 2022 (2022) - Self
    2022
    Wer weiß denn sowas? (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 1 February 2022 (2022) - Self
    2022
    The Masked Dancer Germany (TV Series) as
    Self - Firefly
    - Grand Final (2022) - Self - Firefly
    - Premiere (2022) - Self - Firefly
    2022
    The Palace (TV Mini Series) as
    Self
    - Der Palast - die Dokumentation (2022) - Self
    2020
    Leute heute (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 4 November 2020 (2020) - Self
    2020
    Berlin Mitte (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Keine Angst vor Corona - Hat Trump Recht? (2020) - Self
    2020
    ZDF-Mittagsmagazin (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 25 May 2020 (2020) - Self
    2019
    Bauerfeind - Die Show zur Frau (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Da, wo ich herkomme - (2019) - Self
    2015
    DAS! (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 6 March 2019 (2019) - Self
    - Episode dated 29 June 2017 (2017) - Self
    - Episode dated 28 February 2015 (2015) - Self
    2018
    Talk aus Berlin (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Ute Lemper - Musicalstar und Schauspielerin (2018) - Self
    2017
    Heute leben (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 12 June 2017 (2017) - Self
    2017
    Tom Waits: Tales from a Cracked Jukebox (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2017
    Annemie kommt! (TV Mini Series) as
    Self
    - Annemie Hülchrath & Ute Lemper (2017) - Self
    2016
    6 Mütter (TV Series documentary) as
    Self (2016)
    2013
    Markus Lanz (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 8 November 2016 (2016) - Self
    - Episode dated 4 December 2013 (2013) - Self
    2016
    Tietjen und Bommes (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 30 September 2016 (2016) - Self
    2016
    Die große Show der Naturwunder (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Die große Show der Naturwunder 2016 (2016) - Self
    2013
    Volle Kanne (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 9 February 2016 (2016) - Self
    - Episode dated 9 December 2013 (2013) - Self
    2015
    Zibb (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 9 October 2015 (2015) - Self
    2015
    Promi Shopping Queen (TV Series) as
    Self - Contestant
    - Motto in Dresden: "Morgens Business, abends Party - Präsentiere ein Outfit, das sich im Handumdrehen auf dem laufsteg verändern lässt" (2015) - Self - Contestant
    2013
    Landesschau (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 6 November 2014 (2014) - Self
    - Episode dated 5 December 2013 (2013) - Self
    2014
    III nach neun (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Ausgabe 481 (2014) - Self
    2013
    Die Harald Schmidt Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Show #197 - Weihnachtsberatung (2013) - Self
    2013
    Inas Nacht (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Ute Lemper, Leonard Lansink, Jupiter Jones (2013) - Self
    2013
    Hallo New York (TV Series) as
    Self
    2012
    Der Salon am Dienstag (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 20 November 2012 (2012) - Self
    2009
    Ànima (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #2.45 (2009) - Self
    2009
    Bulles de Vian (TV Movie) as
    Self
    2008
    Musical Showstar 2008 (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Top Ten (2008) - Self
    1989
    NDR Talk Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.571 (2008) - Self
    - Episode dated 7 February 1992 (1992) - Self
    - Episode dated 29 September 1989 (1989) - Self
    2008
    Legends (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Edith Piaf: Singing Her Life (2008) - Self
    2007
    Tischgespräch mit Susan Stahnke (TV Series) as
    Self - Musician
    2007
    Let's Dance (TV Series) as
    Self - Judge
    - 7. Show: Zwei der noch nicht gezeigten Tänze (Tango und Paso Doble, Slowfox und Jive) (2007) - Self - Judge
    - 6. Show: Zwei der noch nicht gezeigten Tänze (Quickstep und Cha-Cha-Cha, Langsamer Walzer und Rumba) (2007) - Self - Judge
    - 5. Show: Samba und ein gemeinsamer Wiener Walzer (ohne Wertung) (2007) - Self - Judge
    - 4. Show: Slowfox oder Paso Doble (2007) - Self - Judge
    - 3. Show: Tango oder Jive (2007) - Self - Judge
    - 2. Show: Rumba oder Quickstep (2007) - Self - Judge
    - 1. Show: Cha-Cha-Cha oder Langsamer Walzer (2007) - Self - Judge
    2007
    Miraxes (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.7 (2007) - Self
    2006
    Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (Documentary) as
    Self
    2005
    Ute Lemper: Blood & Feathers (Video) as
    Self
    2005
    Enrique Morente sueña la Alhambra (Documentary) as
    Self
    2005
    Central Park (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2004
    Menschen der Woche (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 13 November 2004 (2004) - Self
    2000
    HermanSIC (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 18 July 2004 (2004) - Self
    - Episode dated 14 May 2000 (2000) - Self
    2003
    Double je (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 23 September 2003 (2003) - Self
    1997
    Thé ou café (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 31 May 2003 (2003) - Self
    - Episode dated 24 May 1997 (1997) - Self
    2003
    Nomade Ute Lemper (TV Movie) as
    Self
    2000
    Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration (TV Special) as
    Self
    2000
    Die Johannes B. Kerner Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 4 May 2000 (2000) - Self
    2000
    Later... With Jools Holland (TV Series) as
    Guests
    - Episode #15.3 (2000) - Guests
    1993
    Taratata (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 29 April 2000 (2000) - Self
    - Episode #2.11 (1993) - Self
    2000
    Biography (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Marlene: Inventing Dietrich (2000) - Self
    1999
    Kurt Gerrons Karussell (Documentary) as
    Self
    1998
    The Thousand and One Lives of Ute Lemper (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1997
    Originals in Art: Ute Lemper, a Portrait in the First Person (TV Movie) as
    Self
    1997
    The Works (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Movers and Shakers (1997) - Self
    - Movers and Shakers - Self
    1997
    The Royal Variety Performance 1997 (TV Special)
    1997
    Theatreland (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 23 November 1997 (1997) - Self
    1997
    HARDtalk (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Ute Lemper - Singer (1997) - Self
    1994
    Le cercle de minuit (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 22 April 1997 (1997) - Self
    - Episode dated 22 September 1994 (1994) - Self
    1996
    Die Harald Schmidt Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Show #171 (1996) - Self
    1996
    Glücklich und manchmal verloren: Die Wege der Ute Lemper (TV Movie) as
    Self
    1995
    Celebration Concert - It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow (TV Movie) as
    Self
    1995
    Victoires de la musique (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Les 10èmes Victoires de la musique (1995) - Self
    1994
    Dream On (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 21 October 1994 (1994) - Self
    1994
    Les victoires de la musique classique (TV Series) as
    Self - Co-Host
    - Episode #1.1 (1994) - Self - Co-Host
    1993
    Artists for Bosnia: Two Songs and a Poem for Bosnia (TV Special) as
    Self
    1988
    Sacrée soirée (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 29 December 1993 (1993) - Self
    - Episode dated 18 November 1992 (1992) - Self
    - Episode dated 21 December 1988 (1988) - Self
    1993
    Viva Cabaret (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.6 (1993) - Self
    1987
    La nuit des Molières (TV Series documentary) as
    Self - Presenter / Self - Molière de la révélation théâtrale féminine
    - La 7ème nuit des Molières (1993) - Self - Presenter
    - 1ère nuit des Molières (1987) - Self - Molière de la révélation théâtrale féminine
    1993
    Le monde est à vous (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 14 February 1993 (1993) - Self
    1992
    In Search of Cabaret (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1992
    Ute Lemper: Illusions (TV Special) as
    Self
    1992
    Ute Lemper chante Kurt Weill (TV Special) as
    Self
    1992
    Stars in der Manege (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Jubiläums-Gala: 30. Folge Stars in der Manege (1992) - Self
    1992
    The Michael Nyman Songbook (Documentary) as
    Self
    1991
    Die Peter Ustinov Gala - Ein Abend zu seinem 70. Geburtstag aus dem UNESCO-Center in Paris (TV Special) as
    Self
    1991
    Querido cabaret (TV Series) as
    Self - Musical Guest
    - Episode #1.10 (1991) - Self - Musical Guest
    1990
    The Wall: Live in Berlin (Video documentary) as
    The Mother (act one), The Wife (act two)
    1990
    Die Pyramide (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Ausgabe 103 (1990) - Self
    1989
    Ute Lemper: A Concert from the 1989 Bath International Festival (TV Movie) as
    Self
    1989
    Na siehste (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 20 September 1989 (1989) - Self
    1989
    Le grand échiquier (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Béjart Ballet Lausanne (1989) - Self
    1989
    Wedden, dat..? (TV Series) as
    Self - Musical Guest
    - Episode #4.2 (1989) - Self - Musical Guest
    1987
    Champs-Elysées (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 14 January 1989 (1989) - Self
    - Episode dated 28 February 1987 (1987) - Self
    1988
    Du côté de chez Fred (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 14 October 1988 (1988) - Self
    1987
    Heut' abend (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Ute Lemper (1987) - Self
    1987
    Einer wird gewinnen (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #14.2 (1987) - Self
    1987
    Mensch Meier (TV Series) as
    Self - Musician
    - Episode dated 10 September 1987 (1987) - Self - Musician
    1987
    Acteur studio (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 9 March 1987 (1987) - Self
    1987
    C'est encore mieux l'après-midi (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 26 February 1987 (1987) - Self
    1987
    Leute (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 6 February 1987 (1987) - Self
    Archive Footage
    2011
    Memòries de la tele (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #5.17 (2011) - Self
    2007
    La mandrágora (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 10 March 2007 (2007) - Self
    2005
    De Caunes/Garcia - Le meilleur de Nulle Part Ailleurs 2... suite et fin! (Video) as
    Self

    References

    Ute Lemper Wikipedia


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