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Dipole excitations in the semimagic N=50 nucleus ^{87}Rb were investigated at the Stuttgart Dynamitron
facility using bremsstrahlung with an endpoint energy of 4.0 MeV. The widths Gamma or the reduced excitation probabilities B(Pi 1)uparrow of 19 states were determined for the first time. The magnetic dipole excitations
are well reproduced in the framework of the shell model, however, these calculations cannot describe the observed electric dipole excitations.The 1/2^+ state at 3060 keV is proposedto be the weak coupling of an f_{5/2} proton hole to the 3^- octupole vibrational state in the N=50 core ^{88}Sr. The relatively strong E1 transition from that state to the ground state is explained as mainly the neutron h_{11/2} \rightarrow g_{9/2} transition. The breakup of the N=50 core and neutron excitations into the h_{11/2} shell are essential to describe electric dipole excitations, but neutron-core excitations do not play an important role for the structure of magnetic dipole excitations.