Katrin Weissensee

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Katrin Weissensee
Katrin Weißensee during a performance

Katrin Weißensee (* 20th April 1976 in Arnstadt ) is a German Diploma in Business Administration (FH) and is considered the first performance artist of sand animation in Germany.

Born in Arnstadt as the daughter of a family of artists and raised in Crawinkel , Weissensee performed her first magic trick in a school at the age of six, when she began to play the recorder at the age of seven, at nine she learned the clarinet and played in a youth orchestra, and when she was eleven Saxophone to it. She also painted for classmates as a schoolgirl and at the age of 13 she won the Bravo painting competition for the appearance of the film Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles . In addition, at the age of 15, she was already on stage with her older brother and her father, a magician, as a magician and juggler at smaller events.

After graduating from the commercial high school in Ilmenau and graduating in business administration in 2002, majoring in marketing and tourism at the Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences , Weißensee moved to Berlin, where she acquired other current painting techniques from the art scene and where she made space for the Development of own presentations in the area of ​​caricaturing and quick drawing as a stage act took place. In the beginning, Weißensee worked with black light and applied motifs with white paint on black canvas and told her own ballads, until she discovered her own talent in the field of sand painting and sand animation after a presentation by the Israeli artist Ilana Yahav .

Weissensee had to learn the art of sand animation, the interplay of music with suitable, constantly changing images and thus tell a picturesque story, since this art was not practiced in German-speaking countries. There was no specialty “sand animation” at any art college and there were no workshops on the subject at that time. She had to find out the first sandboxes with the appropriate lighting technology, cameras and projection herself.

Appearances (excerpt)

TV and radio presence
  • Live as a guest at MDR at four
  • Gala Night of Sports on ORF
  • Tell the truth on SWR
  • Matinee in SWR2
  • Report in the hessenschau
  • Live broadcast on WDR
  • Live as a guest on ZDF
Reports in the press (excerpt)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First hit , accessed November 24, 2011
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 6, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  3. ↑ Gala Nacht des Sports  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , (from minute 35:40)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / tvthek.orf.at  
  4. ↑ Tell the Truth , accessed September 18, 2012
  5. ^ Matinee SWR2 - Moving Pictures Sand Painting , accessed on November 12, 2012
  6. ↑ Report in the Hessenschau , accessed on November 24, 2011
  7. ^ Report on Ms. Weißensee in the WDR , accessed on November 28, 2011
  8. ↑ Video artful sand painting  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on November 24, 2011. (offline)
  9. ↑ NZZ Online , accessed on November 24, 2011
  10. ^ Böblinger Zeitung ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 24, 2011
  11. ^ Rheinbote, Düsseldorf , accessed on November 24, 2011
  12. ↑ Thüringer Allgemeine , accessed on November 24, 2011
  13. ↑ Bild-Zeitung, 2013 ( memento from September 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on September 11, 2013
  14. ↑ Bild der Frau, 2012 ( memento from September 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on September 11, 2013
  15. ↑ Gießener Allgemeine, 2012 ( memento from September 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on September 11, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Weissensee, Katrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graduate in business administration and sand animation artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnstadt , GDR