Katharina Wingen

Katharina Wingen (* in Bonn ) is a German opera singer ( soprano ), director , screenwriter , singing coach and founder and director of the Leipzig Chamber Opera .

Life

Katharina Wingen spent her childhood in Lannesdorf and, after attending the Gertrud Bäumer girls' secondary school in Bad Godesberg, began training as an educator in Bonn, which she broke off immediately when she passed the entrance examination at the Cologne University of Music and Dance at the age of 18 . She studied, among others with Edda Moser , singing, pantomime and acting, speech training , Italian and music history , was a master class student of Rachel Yakar and graduated after six years with "very good".

In 1999 she began her career as a freelance soprano at theaters in Germany, Belgium and Switzerland and was engaged at the Middle Saxon Theater in Freiberg from the beginning of 2007 to mid-2010 . The desire for independence led her to quit this permanent position.

Together with colleagues she set up the touring theater "Kammeroper Leipzig" and toured Germany with a team of singers and pianists. She wrote the pieces herself, in which she integrated opera melodies.

In 2012 she returned to her home region and has lived in Alfter ever since .

social commitment

In addition to her freelance work as a singer, singing teacher, screenwriter and director, Wingen works part-time as a socio-cultural employee in the “Sankt Angela” retirement home of the Cellitinnen in Hersel , where she occupies the residents with singing and playing and takes on individual care tasks.

Web links

• Katharina Wingen homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Katharina Wingen in the General-Anzeiger Bonn , accessed on June 26, 2016
2. ↑ Retirement home "Sankt Angela" on the Cellitinnen website , accessed on June 26, 2016