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Seura 32/2008
Tapio Rautavaara's daughters:
Tapsa memories, Dad
Text Jukka Lyytinen
Images SKOY
Tapio Rautavaara was the superstar of the time. Daughters according to the occurrence of the artist's self-orientation was reflected at home .At old age there started to become moments of bitterness.
The father was for the time the model of a remote, but still a very good father, even though he much had been away from home, Tapio Rautavaara daughters Irma and Leena remember.
Writer Pentti Haanpää said once to Tapio Rautavaara:
"It is a real man who does what he can well. Stay Tapsa on the road. "
Tapsa remained. The family waited for the man at home - or did they wait?
"No not really! We did not do the waiting for the evening trip home. We had our own world and own lives, "says Leena Rautavaara.
"He was always long gone, lapland tour for months. My mother once went to him to see the Lapland. After returning home, she told us the children that he wanted her to return home. It is not the father of much talked about performances. It was his job and he thought there to be no glamour on his tours. "
The children were three: Irma, and Marja Leena, Liisa who were born 1943, 1946 and 1948.
"My mother was at home. Activity was around at home, we did carry on our own things. We did not have anything to worry about ", says Irma Rautavaara-Lehmuskoski.
That it was in the old times - children were with their mothers, fathers doing their own business.
Meeting of East Karelia
It affected the children's input of course Mr Rauta I live. He was happy daughters.
Before the children Tapio Rautavaara had seen a lot of life. In particular, an experience is worth telling about him for decades.
In autumn and winter 1941, he met with the East-Karelia Council lonely soldier, who was standing 20 meters away. The enemies of gun arm. Rauta saw his face. At the same time, a fraction of a second brother of Russian noticed Finnish.
Both stood still. Fingers were the trigger. They stood there a few long seconds. Then the enemy's face into the smile. Rautavaarakin smiled. Why do they no longer would be subject to kill each other?
Rautavaara, 26, has fingers slowly out of trigger, raised his hands towards the cap and saluting. He answered the same gesture. He turned and left to their own walking roughly away.
Somewhere about was also the father who had left the unmarried Hilda Mary and their toddler son , Kaj Tapio, in the 1910's. Single parent family life was not easy and not the surrounding community viewed favorably of that lifestyle. Consequence of poverty, disease of rice, left the huge Tapsa forever an inward turned sternum.
Tapsa and mother's relationship was solid, even if the boy spent six year old for almost a year away from his mother at Rauhaniemen children's home in Tampere. After childhood, for the rest of his life, spent Tapsa in Helsinki Oulu village (Åggelby H:fors).
At16-year-old Tapsas image was in the newspaper. He was was the tallest Finnish newspaper boy. Soon, he met Elisabeth Saima Handelin. She was called Liisa Her father deal with trade in the village of Oulunkylä (Åggelby). A young married couple of marriages in 1942.
1940s Finland began to hear the entertainer and athlete Tapio Rautavaara. 1946 was published in Turku Sointu-label (Record-company) for his singing the Russian national melody The gull. Two years later in London it rains throwing spot flew javelin 69.77 meters - the Olympic Games return to Athens airport and at home the gold medal in your pocket. That same year he bought a plot of Oulunkylä (Åggelby) and at the village began construction work.
Childhood at the countryside in Oulu Village
Leena Rautavaara remembers Oulunkylän to have been a peaceful place for growth.
"1940 - and 1950-the figures at Oulunkylä was quite countryside. It was a dirt roads, fields, a working farm. We had a semi-contryside childhood. We gave the milkmaid help and we vent to milk cows and steal cabbage, "she says.
"On weekends we went to the city to shop, ice cream and a movie," Irma adds.
The film star daughters had to learn to pull sheets. This job, the home did not help either, even though the father how many times was voted on the radio as the most popular performer.
"I was two times watching father's movie-making. ”Wild North” at Sasekas dunes at Vuosaari and Kummituskievaria at Alice Street Studios, "Irma says.
1950s films first nights celebrated at Rex on Mannerheim-road. The movie stars came to show with bus and the whole family. Leena remember how they rose with elevators to their places while people staring like at the Hollywood. Flashes everywhere. Then came the normal day and once again had to go to school or to the milkmaid help at Gåttbyn Manor stables.
"Once my father came with Eemeli (Esko Toivonen) to the home after the descriptions. They were forced to cross Vantaa river in terribly cold water. Shivery men came to us, "Leena remember.
"Seeing Father in movies was a natural thing for us. We had grown a situation where our father is a celebrity. It is not able to be surprised. People in the street could identify our father. At the time, people were not as intrusive as they are today. Our father felt so good with admiration, in a twinkling of a look. Silent whispers began to happen. If not heard of what people whispered, so lips movement was able to read: "Rau-ta-vaa-ra."
Fans called at home. From the reciever could be heard a mere breath.
The daughters appeared on radio, in Niilo Tarvajärvis Saturday sauna. They sang with their father's accompaniment “Flowers for mother”. People liked, daughters think. Or, was it only about the fact that they were Tapio Rautavaara daughters.
Puistola Labor Hall met Reino Helismaa and Esa Pakarinen spent with the tours are no longer the 1950s, of the Rautavaaran view, sensible. Because of the fees: they were divided into three, even though Rautavaara alone would have been able to charge gigs almost the same amount. Rautavaara moved to a solo career in 1951. Relations to Helismaa went sour. Duo renewed the friendship a few more years before Helismaa died in 1965.
Helismaa was Leena's godfather.
"Not him, we did not seen a lot. Helismaa once came to us and asked that who then is my godchild. And gave the gift. "
Mother-Liisa care at home
At home the star was not a star. When Liisa fetched her husband's long johns for wash, she said:
"This is the star´s long johns. They are going to wash now. "
Tapio Rautavaara paternity was to modern-day charity compared to be even remote.
"I was sometimes at fathers piggyback, but the father never shouted at us children. The role he gave to the mother. Mother of us, after all, grew, not the father. The father was so far away. I am as senior this wondered that, since he himself was fatherless, he is himself the father had no role model, "Leena concludes.
"Artists are very self-essential, so my father, hardly even thought of paternity. It was always, but that 'Liisa treat! ". Its degree of self-centered man, he was compared with the current, which drive their children to hobbies. That was not known. I went to Lasse Pihlajasaari accordeon school, but grandma was the one who brought my accordeon there. At the time, does not even come to mind that the family would have purchased a second car. Let alone that our mother would have taken the single car and took the children somewhere. Grandma took us to the bus, if not walking. "
Just how not only children, after all things had to be his father's opinion, no.
"He was interested in our school numbers. He was awfully proud of us, but did not require us to be top students. When I was studying languages at university, I heard him proudly told many of my learning, "says Leena.
Tapio Rautavaara successful sportsman also. Archery and the javelin was his champion.