Born about 1904 in Russia (where exactly is not known), Boris (also: Bodo) Greverus belonged to the German minority in the Tsarist empire. He studied voice with Ernst Grenzebach in Berlin and made his debut in 1929 in Mannheim as German in Pikovaja dama. He had his next contracts, for one year each, in Essen, Prague (Deutsches Landestheater) and Graz. 1936–38 at the Theater der Jugend in Berlin, then a freelancer during the war, 1945–61 at the Städtische Oper Berlin, and 1961–64 at the Theater des Westens, again in Berlin. |