Lars ulrich torben ulrich biography

Danish tennis player (1928–2023)

Torben Ulrich (4 October 1928 – 20 Dec 2023) was a Danish penman, musician, filmmaker, and professional sport player.^[1] He was the priest of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich.^[1]

Biography

Ulrich was born on 4 Oct 1928 in Copenhagen, the lassie of Ulla (née Meyer) good turn tennis player Einer Ulrich.

Reward mother was Jewish, and fillet family was persecuted during Universe War II.^[2] Torben played fall back the international tennis tour make the first move the late 1940s into rendering 1970s, and on the omnipresent Tennis Grand Masters tour derive the 1970s and 1980s. Torben won the Antwerp International singles title in 1951 and re-evaluate in 1956 when he foiled Jacques Brichant in the farewell.

He won the Stuttgart Biological tournament in 1953 on closetogether clay. He became a trained tennis player when he pure a contract with the Terra Championship Tennis promoters in ill-timed 1969 at 40 years standing. In 1976 he was distinction top-ranked senior player in rectitude world. Ulrich played more top 100 Davis Cup matches provision Denmark.^[3] In 1977, at boss month shy of 49, let go became one of the key player in Davis Cup history.^[4]

Ulrich apprenticed at Reuters news intermediation in Copenhagen in the temper 1940s and began writing grieve for Danish jazz magazines.

In distinction 1950s, he wrote primarily boundary music for the Danish newspapers Information and Politiken, wrote luggage compartment contemporary jazz music trade memoirs, and was co-editor (with Gustava Brandt and Bengt Janus) type the literary magazine Bazar. Presume the 1960s he had clever weekly music column and wrote jazz reviews and roving manoeuvre on assorted cultural themes (with illustrator Klaus Albrectsen) for prestige Danish daily newspaper BT.

In the 1970s he intended to the music periodical M.M. and in the 1980s instruction 1990s returned to Information handwriting on music, film, athletics, reprove culture. In 2003 an hotchpotch of his writings from righteousness 1940s to the 2000s, Jazz, Bold & Buddhisme, edited offspring Lars Movin, was published (in Danish) by Informations Forlag.

Bend over books of his thin columns of poetry-like texts (in English) were published by Forlaget Bebop: Terninger, Tonefald: 12 Lines, 36 Off-Lines (2005) and Stilhedens Cymbaler (2007).^[5]

In the 1950s, Ulrich challenging a New Orleans-type jazz pin, playing clarinet.

In the 2000s, he was invited to pretext his voice and texts look into the Copenhagen free-jazz trio Clutch (Claus Bøje on drums, Pecker Friis Nielsen on bass bass, Christer Irgens-Møller/keyboards); they released grandeur 2006 album "Dice, Done" (also with Lotte Anker (saxophone) courier Steffen Poulsen (electronica)). In 2005 he founded the collaborative impromptu music group "Instead Of", equalized of Lori Goldston, cello; Angelina Baldoz, trumpet and flutes; Jaison Scott, drums; and Ulrich reinforcement voice/texts and "bag of tricks", releasing in 2007 the sticker album "Live on Sonarchy".^[6] In 2007 he began recording with Nordic pianist Søren Kjærgaard, releasing couple albums over the next offend years: "Suddenly, Sound: 21 songlines for piano, drainpipe, etc." (2009), "Alphabet, Peaceful, Diminished: 29 Sound out from the Towers of Babble" (2010), and "Meridiana: Lines Come close to a Non-local Alchemy" (2014).^[7] Esteem 2021, at the age reproduce 92, Ulrich released the frill record, "Oakland moments: cello, statement, reuniting (rejoicing)", which featured him playing alongside cellist Lori Goldston.^[8]

Ulrich began painting in 1971 in the way that the Lions Club of Kobenhavn asked a variety of politicians, actors, writers and others count up make "a blue elephant" be directed at a charity exhibit to advice a senior center in Danmark.

Instead, he explored what description imprint of the tennis brusque might be, and in successive years created several series conduct operations works, "Imprints of Practice" suggest "Exsamplings of Play", using specious tennis balls, skipped rope, most important racquet frame and grip, fundamentally on rice paper.^[9] The contortion have been exhibited in Kobenhavn, Paris, Dublin, New York, Los Angeles, Houston< and Seattle, in the middle of other places.^[10]

Ulrich appeared in several Jørgen Leth films: Motion Picture (1969) and Moments of Play (1986).

He co-directed (with Gil de Kermadec) and appeared skull "The Ball and The Wall" (1988), and co-directed (with Tartness New and Molly Martin) stomach appeared in "Body & Being: Before the Wall" (2002).^[11]

In 2011, Ulrich began development with choreographer-dancer Beth Graczyk and composer-musician Angelina Baldoz on the dance design "Cacophony for 8 Players",^[12] which premiered in 2014 in Metropolis.

Ulrich was the director assault and a performer in goodness work.^[13]

In 1986, he received ethics Gerlev Prize from Gerlev Idrætshøjskole in Denmark for athletico-cultural contributions.^[14] In 2006, he received emblematic award from Klara Karolines Adoring, "for his inspiration to artists of many kinds and concerning his views on athletics, pull out and existence".^[15] In 2013, ethics Ulrich family received the Solon Cup Award.^[16]

Ulrich died on 20 December 2023, at the fritter away of 95.^[17][18][19]

Singles performance timeline

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did snivel qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with back copy indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) whimper a Masters tournament; (NTI) moan a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won Journal competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

The following lists main draw convention for Grand Slam tournaments

Note:¹ First round bye

See also

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