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Ilja Richter (born 24 November 1952) is a German actor, voice actor, television presenter, singer, theatre director and author, best known as the presenter of the ZDF show Disco.




Life


Richter was born in East Berlin to Georg and Eva Richter. Georg was a Communist, who named Ilja after the Russian journalist Ilya Ehrenburg, and Eva was a Jew who survived the Third Reich under a fake Aryan identity. Georg spent nine and a half years in concentration camps during the Third Reich.
After the family was in political difficulties in East Germany, they moved to West Berlin in 1953. There, the Richters leased a restaurant. In 1955, Ilja's sister Janina was born, and in 1959 they moved to Cologne. There, too, the Richters ran a restaurant, but moved back in 1960 to West Berlin, where they opened a guesthouse.
Eva, a former actress, brought Ilja to the Sender Freies Berlin (Radio Free Berlin) for an audition. Ilja's acting career began at the age of nine. As a teenager he starred in the series Till, the Boy Next Door as Albert. In the 1970s, Richter became famous in West-Germany as television presenter of Disco, a music show filmed before a young live audience in which he also performed in sketches.
As an actor, he played several roles in films and in theatre. He starred in several comedy movies alongside Rudi Carrell. As a voice actor, his most prominent role was lending his colourful, peppy voice to Timon from The Lion King. He also provided the German voices of Mike Wazowski in Monsters, Inc., Spot/Scott in Teacher's Pet (TV series), the title character of Count Duckula and Dave in The Penguins of Madagascar. One of his records is a German adaptation of Tiny Tim's Tiptoe Through the Tulips.
Richter wrote several books. He dated the singer Marianne Rosenberg from 1975 to 1978. From 1995 to 1997 he was married to singer Stephanie von Falkenhausen. He lives in Berlin with his longtime companion Barbara Ferun, and has one child, Kolja.




Filmography






= Film

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1962: So toll wie anno dazumal
1963: Piccadilly Zero Hour 12
1969: I'm an Elephant, Madame
1970: When the Mad Aunts Arrive
1970: Who Laughs Last, Laughs Best
1970: Unsere Pauker gehen in die Luft
1970: Musik, Musik – da wackelt die Penne
1971: Das haut den stärksten Zwilling um
1971: Hilfe, die Verwandten kommen
1971: The Mad Aunts Strike Out
1971: Die Kompanie der Knallköppe
1971: Wenn mein Schätzchen auf die Pauke haut
1971: Aunt Trude from Buxtehude
1972: Betragen ungenügend!
1973: Blue Blooms the Gentian
1973: Das Wandern ist Herrn Müllers Lust
1983: The Roaring Fifties
1996: One More Kiss and He's Dead!
1998: Drei Chinesen mit dem Kontrabass
2007: My Führer – The Really Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler




= Television

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1963: Schwarz auf Weiß
1965: Die Schneekönigin
1967/1968: Till, der Junge von nebenan
1969: Tony's Freunde
1980: Bühne frei für Kolowitz (based on Enter Laughing)
1980: Hollywood, ich komme
1985: Ausgeträumt
1985: Drei Damen vom Grill
1985: Mein Freund Harvey
1992: Sylter Geschichten
1992: Treff am Alex
1997: Wenn der Präsident zweimal klingelt
1999: Cologne's Finest 2
1999: Im Namen des Gesetzes: Freitag der 13.
1999: Tatort: Blinde Karriere
1999: SOKO 5113: "Fauler Zauber"
1999: Spuk im Reich der Schatten
2000: Tatort: "Mauer des Schweigens"
2000: Spuk im Reich der Schatten
2002: SOKO Kitzbühel: "Ein tiefer Fall"
2002: Herz in Flammen
2003: Körner und Köter
2003: Schlosshotel Orth
2005: Princess Undercover
2005: Ein Hund, zwei Koffer und die ganz große Liebe
2005: Liebe süß, sauer
2005: In aller Freundschaft
2006: Ich leih mir eine Familie
2006/2007: Pocoyo (voice)
2007: Die ProSieben Märchenstunde: "Dornröschen: Ab durch die Hecke"
2008: Tierärztin Dr. Mertens
2008: 4 Singles
2009: Romeo und Jutta
2009: Klick ins Herz
2010: Forsthaus Falkenau
2010: Notruf Hafenkante




Awards


1975: Bravo Otto in Gold
1977: Goldene Kamera
2005: Curt-Goetz-Ring
2010: Deutscher Hörbuchpreis




Songs


1961 – "Schokolade, Pfefferminz, saure Drops"
1961 – "Lausbubentwist"
1961 – "Ich möchte am Broadway Blümchen pflücken"
1969 – "Tip-Tap in die Tulpen"
1970 – "Ich hol' dir gerne vom Himmel die Sterne"
1972 – "Eine Goldmedaille für deine Supertaille"
1977 – "Tip-Tap in die Tulpen" (new version)
1979 – "Liebe im Büro"
1984 – "Liebeslied"




Books


Star-Szene '77. 1000 Top-Stars presented by Ilja Richter, Verlagsgesellschaft für Nachschlagewerke, Taunusstein 1977.
Eva Richter, Ilja Richter: Der deutsche Jude. In: Bibliothek der deutschen Werte. Droemer Knaur 2766 satire, Munich 1993. ISBN 3-426-02766-6.
Ilja Richter, Harald Martenstein: Meine Story. dtv 2001, ISBN 3-423-20436-2 (original title: Spot aus! Licht an! – Meine Story. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-455-11277-3).
Ilja Richter, Viola Roggenkamp: Meine Mamme with an essay about Jews born in Germany after the Holocaust and their heritage, Fischer 16740. Frankfurt am Main 2005. ISBN 978-3-596-16740-1.
Ilja Richter, Erich Rauschenbach (illustrator): Bruno – Von Bären und Menschen. Boje, Cologne 2007. ISBN 978-3-414-82047-1.
Du kannst nicht immer 60 sein. Mit einem Lächeln älter werden. Riva, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86883-294-5.
Ilja Richter: Nehmen Sie’s persönlich: Porträts von Menschen, die mich prägten. With photos of Joseph Gallus Rittenberg, Elsinor Verlag, Coesfeld 2022, ISBN 978-3-942788-70-0.




External links



Ilja Richter at IMDb

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• I'm an Elephant, Madame
• Daftar pembawa acara televisi
• Brie Bella
• Edge (pegulat)
• Ilja Richter
• Ilja
• Disco (TV series)
• Richter (surname)
• List of German actors
• Karlshorst
• List of television presenters
• List of German films of the 1980s
• List of German films of the 1970s
• Blue Blooms the Gentian