Musicians, resistance fighters, composer, conductor and politician:. All this combines Mikis Theodorakis, the today 90 years old is in a person. He is regarded as the voice of Greece and as a composer of secret Greek national anthem: the music for the film “Zorba the Greek”.
Theodorakis has the conducting and composing long abandoned. The image of the 1.90-meter man with outstretched arms (“like an eagle,” wrote newspapers) orchestra, singers and sometimes the public “in the musical sky” rose, one sees only on TV or in old movies .
“Mikis”, as everyone calls him in Greece, however, still looks young and vibrant when he expresses himself with shining eyes and a loud voice on political issues that concern his country. Although he has increasingly retreated into his house below the Acropolis of Athens. But anyone who plays a role in Greece must have even spoken with Mikis. Recently, it was Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who visited him after his election victory in January. Theodorakis gave him by saying, “I will stand by” figuratively his blessing.
To the music, born 1925 on the Aegean island of Chios Theodorakis came through an old film about Beethoven. “I saw the movie with my father. I was fascinated, “he told in an interview with the Greek television. “I asked my father who is professionally to Athens to bring me everything he could find in the capital about music drove. So it began. “Later, he studied music at the Conservatory of Athens.
During the Second World War he was a resistance fighter. During the subsequent Civil War (1947-1949) he made his way to the side of the left. He was sent into exile.
As a composer Theodorakis was the early 1960s, world famous with the music for “Zorba the Greek”, the film by Michael Cacoyannis with Anthony Quinn in the title role. After that he fought against the Colonel Junta in Greece (1967-1974). He was arrested and tortured. Until 1974 he lived in exile in Paris. There he composed “Axion Esti”, “The Song of the Dead Brother” and the “Canto General”.
After the restoration of democracy in 1974, he returned to his homeland and started a political interplay without equal. Theodorakis became a deputy for the Communists; when she disappointed him, he was elected for the Conservatives in parliament. For a while he was minister of the Conservative Party, then he approached the Socialists.
But as an opportunist, no one has called him. Because Theodorakis is, as they say in Athens, “the voice of the people”, he always fights against overbearing authority and injustice. After the outbreak of severe financial crisis, he founded to protest the harsh austerity measures a movement against the subjugation of Greece. They had no political repercussions. Theodorakis but respected, no matter what he says and does, writes the Greek press. His music sounds at each ceremony, with every mass political event and at every even so small celebration of the Greeks.
| NAME | Business | Age | DATE OF BIRTH | birth | BIRTH COUNTRY |
| Tukur, Ulrich | German actor and musician | 58 | 29/07/1957 | Viernheim | Germany |
| Holzer, Jenny | American artist | 65 | 29/07/1950 | Gallipolis | USA |
| Spils, May | German film director | 74 | 29/07/1941 | Twistringen | Germany |
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