Margareth Kammerer

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Margareth Kammerer (* 1966 in South Tyrol ) is a jazz singer and guitarist.

Kammerer studied musicology in Bologna from 1987 to 1993 . She also took singing lessons with Michiko Hirayama from 1991 to 1993 . In 1989 she was one of the co-founders of the improvisation ensemble laboratorio di musica e immagine . In 1993 she founded the women's band Fastilio .

In 1994 Kammerer moved to Berlin. It was here that in 1997 the album The Songs That Cannot Stand was created with Adeline Rosenstein and Leonid Soybelman and in the following year Ode an die Langeweile - A homage to Hanns Eisler with Michael Gross , Leonid Soybelman, Hanno Leichtmann , Joe Williamson , Nicholas Bussmann and others. In 1999 she founded the Guestar group with Soybelman, Williamson, Bussmann and Andrea Ermke .

Since 2000, Kammerer has participated in several theater projects and performances. She appeared as a singer in the pieces Comas directed by Laurent Frechuret (1999–2001), Traum im Herbst by Jon Fosse (directed by Wulf Twiehaus , music by Jörg Gollasch , 2001) and in the opera Venusmond by Burkhard Stangl and Oswald Egger (2002).

In 2004 her first solo album To Be an Animal of Real Flesh was released (with Axel Dörner , Chris Abrahams and Tatsuya Yoshida ), on which she sings songs based on texts by EE Cummings , Anne Carson , Paul Celan and Antonin Artaud .

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