Ebba Durstewitz

Ebba Durstewitz at a concert in 2005

Ebba Durstewitz (* 1971 ) is a German musician , singer , literary scholar and freelance writer .

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Ebba Durstewitz grew up in Nordhorn in Lower Saxony and moved to Hamburg in the early 1990s , where she still lives today. There, she and her then-boyfriend and current husband James Durstewitz of (born Siebel) music critics acclaimed pop - band JaKönigJa that exists to this day. She also studied Lusitan and English at the University of Hamburg . From 2004 to 2011 she worked at the Institute for Romance Studies there as a lecturer for Portuguese literature . In 2011 she was ebenda with a thesis on the Brazilian songwriter and writer Chico Buarque for Dr. Phil. PhD. The work, which was assessed with "summa cum laude", was awarded the Graduate Prize of the Hamburg Study Foundation (so-called "Haspa-Förderpreis") in July 2011 and was published in September 2011 by Berlin-based tranvia Verlag.

From 2006 to 2009 Durstewitz ran the Durstewitz Sapre Gallery for Contemporary Art together with the Hamburg businessman and " Effilee " publisher Vijay Sapre . a. Exhibited works by Jan Timme, Mirjam Thomann and Sam Prekop . Since the late 1990s, Durstewitz has also worked as a translator from Portuguese and English and as a freelance writer for u. a. the The Daily Newspaper , Texts on Art , The Travel Almanac, and other magazines and newspapers. Since 2010 she has also appeared more and more as a lecturer. For example, she has been a guest at the Berlin House of World Cultures several times .

In 2013, Durstewitz was involved as a dramaturge in Jorinde Dröse's production of the Tino Hanekamp novel So Was von da at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg. At the end of the same year she again took over the musical direction of Annette Pullen's staging of the musical Elternabend at the Freiburg Theater.

In 2014 Durstewitz took over the conception and scientific management of the artistic-scientific festival format "Scienceville" in Hamburg.

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Miscellaneous

1995 was ebba durstewitz citizen of the year the city of Nordhorn .

Web links

Official homepage of the Ebba Durstewitz gallery
Ebba Durstewitz at Discogs (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Durstewitz, Ebba
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German musician, singer and gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH	1971