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.
Jonas Turkisher, Julian Lazaar Turkisher, Max Emanuel Tabatsky, Stella Tabatsky
Parents
Elfrieda Lemper, Joseph Lemper
Awards
John Bunn Award
Nominations
Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album, Nika Award for Best Actress, Laurence Olivier Observer Award for Outstanding Achievement
Movies
Roger Waters: The Wall: Live in Berlin, The Michael Nyman Songbook, Prorva, Prêt-à-Porter, Bogus, A River Made to Drown In, Appetite, Ute Lemper: Blood & Feathers, Magic in the Moonlight, Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill, Wild Games, Ute Lemper: The Thousand and One Lives of Ute Lemper: A Trilingual Po...
Star Sign
Cancer
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I'm a world citizen, and I'm inspired by many different traditions and cultures and music. But it all comes back to me, and to the way I interpret the songs and the poems and the music. That's really a personal interpretation - But there is a little piece of Berlin in everything I do.
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On her native Germany: I was very critical of my own background - with the way I grew up - and I did not find my surroundings open or tolerant enough. My spirit couldn't run free. I was uptight in that place and I found a vaster freedom abroad.
In the late 1980s, early 1990s, she was in a long-term relationship with Volker Schlöndorff. He planned to cast her as Hildegard Knef in a movie based on Knef's autobiography, "The Gift Horse". Bernd Eichinger was going to produce the film which was finally made almost twenty years later as Hilde (2009) with Heike Makatsch in the title role.
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She lived in Münster (until 1981), Vienna (1981-83), Berlin (1984-85 & 1991-92), Stuttgart (1985), Paris (1986-87 & 1993-97), Frankfurt (1988-89), and London (1989-91 & 1997-99) before finally moving to New York in 1999.
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Michael Nyman wrote the 1992 album "Songbook" especially for her.
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Robert Altman had planned to cast her in a remake of Mata Hari (1931), but the movie never came about.
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Maurice Béjart created a ballet for her called "La morte subite" (1991).
Has four children: two children from her first husband David Tabatsky, a son Max Emanuel Tabatsky (b.1994) and a daughter Stella Tabatsky (b.1996); also has two children from her second husband Todd Turkisher - sons Julian Lazaar Turkisher (b.2005) and Jonas Turkisher (b.2011).
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Quit acting in 2003 due to her career as a singer.
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She was awarded the 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Musical of 1997 for her performance in Chicago.
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Performed at Roger Waters'' "The Wall Live in Berlin" Concert in July 1990, singing "The Thin Ice" and "the Trial". Also appears in the video release.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Magic in the Moonlight
2014
Cabaret Singer
Aurélien
2003
TV Movie
Rose Melrose
Appetite
1998
Greta
River Made to Drown In
1997
Eva Kline
Wild Games
1997
Carole Valmer
Bogus
1996
Babette
Tales from the Crypt
1996
TV Series
Jacqueline
Jiggery Pokery
1994
TV Movie
Lena
Rage and Outrage: The Dreyfus Affair
1994
TV Movie
Ready to Wear
1994
Albertine
Pierre qui brûle
1992
TV Movie
Anna
Prorva
1992
Anna
Coupable d'innocence ou Quand la raison dort
1992
Catherine Gless
Not Mozart: Letters, Riddles and Writs
1991
TV Movie
Mozart
Prospero's Books
1991
Ceres
Jean Galmot, aventurier
1990
Arlette Simon
L'Autrichienne
1990
Marie-Antoinette
Das Erbe der Guldenburgs
1987
TV Series
Peggy Brinkley
Drei gegen drei
1985
Marianne
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Magic in the Moonlight
2014
performer: "It's All a Swindle Alles Schwindel"
Die Harald Schmidt Show
2013
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Der Salon am Dienstag
TV Series music - 1 episode, 2012 performer - 1 episode, 2012
So You Think You Can Dance
2005
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Romance & Cigarettes
2005
performer: "Little Water Song"
Huips
2004
TV Movie performer: "They call me Naughty Lola"
Kissing Jessica Stein
2001
performer: "When the Special Girlfriend"
Legionnaire
1998
performer: "Mon légionnaire"
Die Eisprinzessin
1996
TV Movie performer: "Birds in Cages"
Pierre qui brûle
1992
TV Movie "Idö Van", "Trouble Man"
Ute Lemper: A Concert from the 1989 Bath International Festival
1989
TV Movie performer: "Mack The Knife", "Surabaya Johnny", "Johnny", "Youkali Tango", "My Ship"
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Thousand and Ones Lives of Ute Lemper
1998
TV Movie
Herself
Originals in Art: Ute Lemper, a Portrait in the First Person
1997
TV Movie
Herself
The Works
1997
TV Series documentary
Herself
Theatreland
1997
TV Series
Herself
HARDtalk
1997
TV Series
Herself
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1996
TV Series
Herself
Celebration Concert - It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow
1995
TV Movie
Herself
Victoires de la musique
1995
TV Series
Herself
Les victoires de la musique classique
1994
TV Series
Herself - Co-Host
Artists for Bosnia: Two Songs and a Poem for Bosnia
1993
TV Movie
Herself
Viva Cabaret
1993
TV Series
Herself
Illusions
1992/II
TV Movie
Herself
In Search of Cabaret
1992
TV Movie
Herself
Ute Lemper chante Kurt Weill
1992
TV Special
Herself
The Michael Nyman Songbook
1992
Documentary
Herself
Querido cabaret
1991
TV Series
Herself
The Wall: Live in Berlin
1990
TV Movie documentary
The Mother (act one), The Wife (act two)
Ute Lemper: A Concert from the 1989 Bath International Festival
$6 Million
