Katharine Mehrling

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Katharine Mehrling (2018)

Katharine Mehrling (* 1974 or 1975 in Hanau ) is a German actress, singer and songwriter.

Life

Katharine Mehrling grew up in Ostheim (Nidderau) . She studied Acting and Musical Theater at the London Studio Center and the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in New York. In 1993 she was engaged by director Michael Bogdanov as Chrissy for the revival production of the musical Hair at the Old Vic Theater during her training .

Her engagements include numerous female leading roles in plays such as Sugar Kane in Some Like It Hot , Polly in Die Dreigroschenoper , Eponine in Les Misérables , Eva Peron in Evita , Lucy in Jekyll & Hyde , Irma in Irma la Douce , Emma in Remain until Sonntag (Tribüne Berlin), Fanny Brice in Funny Girl , Lilli Vanessi / Katharina in Kiss Me, Kate (Bad Hersfelder Festspiele) and Sally Bowles in Cabaret in the Bar every Vernunft Berlin (director: Vincent Paterson).

In 2016 she was the first cast in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita (production: Vincent Paterson) at the Ronacher in Vienna. Her embodiment of Edith Piaf in three different theater productions caused an international sensation .

She devoted herself to her love of jazz and French chanson in her solo programs and on several CDs: Hommages, Bonsoir Katharine, Piaf Au Bar, Mehrling Au Bar, Vive La Vie. Her first album with self-written songs, Am Rande der Nacht (Music: Rolf Kühn & Katharine Mehrling / Texts: Katharine Mehrling), was produced in the Berlin Hansa Studios and released in 2011 on Monopol Records. At the end of 2011, Hessischer Rundfunk presented an evening in the large broadcasting hall with Katharine Mehrling and the HR Big Band under the direction of Jörg Achim Keller .

From February 11th to April 14th, 2012 she was on stage with her band, dancers, international artists and special guest Rolf Kühn in the winter garden with her show Am Rande der Nacht . For this she was awarded the Lale Andersen Prize by the City of Bremerhaven .

In the film Operation Walküre - Das Stauffenberg Assassination , Katharine Mehrling appears as a singer in the officers' club, and she can be heard on the soundtrack with the song For a night full of bliss . Wolfgang Rademann had a role written for her for the dream ship series “Mauritius”. In the Sat1 film, Love at First Trick , shot in Cape Town , she can be seen alongside Dieter Hallervorden , Veronica Ferres and Steffen Groth .

In 2011 she was a jury member at the national singing competition , in which she won 2nd place herself in 1995. In 2013 she was the jury president and moderated the award gala in the Friedrichstadtpalast.

She gave concerts with the Big Band of the Deutsche Oper in the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra , the Philharmonic Orchestra Kiel, the Philharmonic Orchestra Freiburg and several times with the Babelsberg Film Orchestra . On December 19, 2015, she celebrated Edith Piaf's 100th birthday in two concerts at the Komische Oper with a large orchestra, in the presence of Piaf composer Charles Dumont. Her concert with the NDR Radiophilharmonie Katharine Mehrling sings Piaf (conductor: Enrique Ugarte ) was broadcast on NDR Kultur Radio in 2017.

In September 2018 she made her New York concert debut at Joe's Pub in the Public Theater.

In May 2019 she released her single Straßen von Berlin , recorded with the Babelsberg Film Orchestra (text: Katharine Mehrling / music: Paul Hankinson & Katharine Mehrling) on Traumton Records . The video was shot in Berlin with Jannik Schümann , Tilmar Kuhn and Dagmar Biener (director: Katharine Mehrling / production: Titus Hoffmann).

For her role as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl ( Bad Hersfelder Festspiele ) she was awarded the Great Hersfeld Prize of the Critics Jury in 2019 . During the closing gala Finale Furiose on September 1, 2019, she was also presented with the 2019 audience award.

Since their collaboration on Paul Abraham's JazzOperette Ball in the Savoy , Katharine Mehrling and Barrie Kosky have enjoyed an artistic friendship. With their evening Lonely House (premiere: December 2019) they dedicated themselves to the admired composer Kurt Weill and presented for two French and American songs and songs from Weill's exile in Paris and New York.

Katharine Mehrling was awarded the “Golden Curtain” theater prize for the sixth time as the most popular actress in Berlin, among other things for her program Vive la vie in the bar of every reason . The award ceremony took place on January 19, 2020 on the stage of the Komische Oper following their Kurt Weill concert “Lonely House” with Barrie Kosky.

Awards

Discography

  • Hair . The 1993 Original London Cast Recording. EMI-Electrola, 1993
  • Rainer Bielfeldt : Conni - I like making music so much. Universal Music, 2004
  • Tributes . 2008
  • On the edge of the night . 2011

Television films

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Axel Schock: I just didn't sleep with Dieter Bohlen . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 6, 2006, accessed: May 6, 2014
  2. ↑ Barbara Jänichen: Katharine Mehrling survives serious illness . In: Die Welt , April 30, 2006, accessed: September 18, 2011
  3. ^ Bernd Wegner: London - New York - Berlin. Katharine Mehrling, the "Piaf von Berlin", has been living on the Spree for ten years. In: BVG plus _07 / 08 (2010). Pp. 28–29 (PDF; 7.1 MB)
  4. ↑ Gunda Bartels: The freaks are on the loose. July 26, 2014, accessed September 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Peter Zander: Katharine Mehrling has "the best voice in the world". January 20, 2020, accessed on August 18, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ National Singing Competition: All Prize Winners Musical / Chanson ( Memento from February 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Gitte Haenning receives the Lale Andersen Prize - Advancement Prize for Katharine Mehrling. Press release of the City of Bremerhaven from August 17, 2012, accessed on September 29, 2012
  8. ↑ https://www.hersfelder-zeitung.de/bad-hersfeld/hersfelder-festepiele-2019-preise-iegen-katharine-mehrling-guenter-zr-12842772.html accessed on August 25, 2019
  9. ↑ Peter Zander: Katharine Mehrling has "the best voice in the world". January 20, 2020, accessed on August 18, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Multiples, Katharine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, musical artist, singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1974 or 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau