Marie-Thérèse Escribano

Marie-Thérèse Escribano (born March 19, 1926 in Paris ) is a singer and cabaret artist living in Vienna .

biography

Escribano is the daughter of a Spaniard and a Belgian. She had an older brother. She spent her childhood in Paris and Madrid , where she attended the Real Conservatorio .

Marie-Thérèse Escribano has lived in Vienna since 1955, where she studies at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts Vienna (now the university) under Professor Witt (opera school) and Professor Erik Werba (song and oratorio). At first she intends to become an opera singer, but then feels strongly drawn to contemporary music and in 1959 becomes a member of the ensemble “Die Reihe” (founded by Friedrich Cerha and Kurt Schwertsik ).

In addition to Cerha, she worked with the conductors Lorin Maazel , Paul Sacher , Mauricio Kagel , and Pierre Boulez at this time . Escribano performs in Europe and the USA and interprets works by Anton Webern , Alban Berg and Arnold Schönberg . Her interpretation of Schönberg's “ Pierrot Lunaire ” is still considered outstanding today.

From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s Escribano sang with "Les Menestrels", a Viennese ensemble for early music . At about the same time, her engagement in the AUF (Action for Independent Women) , an association of the Austrian women's movement, begins . There she headed the theater working group for many years , in which the women work together on feminist plays and perform them successfully.

Since 1981 Escribano has appeared as a solo cabaret artist with texts she wrote herself. Her programs revolve around topics such as “being a woman, being old, being a foreigner, the arrogance of the 'big ones' in politics and the church” and, as she herself says, comes from her own life experience.

In addition to the cabaret performances, the artist also gives recitals (including Sephardic songs) and teaches singing. As a workshop leader, she has developed her own style (“voice liberation”).

In October 2006 Marie-Therèse Escribano was awarded the Silver Medal of Honor of the City of Vienna.

In December 2007 she received the honorary prize of the Austrian World Music Awards for her life's work at the Vienna Festival of Sounds .

Cabaret programs

• Slap the first
• It doesn't take much to be old
• A woman traveling
• Divas and red carnations
• Foxtrot for Moritz
• Mystery games
• The older the me
• Seems Spanish to me
• Single & Co.

CDs

• Canciones de seda verde
• Canciones Sefardies
• Cantigas Sefardies
• Tango tango
• Lula purple

literature

• Barbara Asen: “The older I am!” Age, gender and identity in feminist cabaret. Using the example of Marie-Thérèse Escribano's texts . In: Ingrid Bauer and Christa Hämmerle (eds.): L'Homme. European Journal of Feminist History . 17th year, Cologne, 2006. Issue 1. Age (s). Pp. 109-121.
• Barbara Boisits, Georg Demcisin: Escribano, Marie Thérèse. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .

Web links

• http://www.escribano.at/