Karin Oehler

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Karin Oehler (born September 13, 1950 in Ruhla ; † March 20, 2020 in Stuttgart ) was a German chanson and jazz singer .

Life

Karin Oehler grew up with her twin sister Liane in Thuringia and attended schools in Ruhla with her until they graduated from high school . She received music education from her parents from the age of four. From the age of ten she attended the Eisenach music school, starting with music theory and ear training with the composers Ulrich Müller and Emil Gutsch. Instrumental lessons and singing followed later. She was also a member of a dance ensemble, soloist in the school choir and singer in the band Crescendo .

After graduating from high school, she studied singing at the Liszt School of Music Weimar with Marianne Fischer-Kupfer from September 1969 . From the fifth semester, she also studied jazz and chanson with the jazz pianist Manfred Schmitz and completed the complete E and U singing courses at the same time. During her studies she successfully took part in several competitions, played in a musical production at the Halle Theater and moved to the Federal Republic of Germany after completing her studies in June 1976. Since then she has given concerts as a freelance singer with songs in French, English and German. In November 1978 she won the VDMK national singing competition in Berlin with Dieter Huthmacher, her future husband, and the Wolfsburg Wolf Cabaret Prize in 1994 . Together they published twelve records and since 1975 they have also operated the Doppelfant press, which prints and publishes press prints with original graphics.

Her preferred repertoire are chansons by French composers, especially Michel Legrand . Since 2000 she has been working as a vocal coach for jazz and pop singing. She also gives concerts where she is accompanied by a double bass player (from Axel Kühn ).

Discographic notes

  • 1976: Always in a hurry - chansons (with Dieter Huthmacher)
  • 1978: songs
  • 1980: Ideal images (with Prof. Paul Angerer)
  • 1981: fragile
  • 1983: sympathy
  • 1985: exposed
  • 1986: cautious
  • 1988: right in the middle
  • 1990: resolutions
  • 1992: Fire & Water
  • 1994: Matteo and the Magic Forest (with KMD Prof. Rolf Schweizer)
  • 1996: men know everything
  • 2000: Rummaging in subjects
  • 2005: Chocolate songs extra dry

Publications

  • Dieter Huthmacher and Karin Oehler-Huthmacher: The Huthmachers and their songs . Text book with notes. Bad Teinach: Doppelfant press, approx. 1991.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chanson singer Karin Oehler has died
  2. ↑ Neue Berliner Illustrierte 1973, issues 1–26, page 62
  3. ^ Authors in Baden-Württemberg: a current reference work , hrgg. by Imre Török, Birgit Grübl, 1991
  4. ↑ Portrait of the singer-songwriter on the cover of the LP Immer in Eile (Doppelfant)
personal data
SURNAME Oehler, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruhla
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 2020
Place of death Stuttgart