Masha Qrella

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Masha Qrella (actually Mariana Kurella ; * 1975 in East Berlin ) is a German singer and songwriter .

Life

Kurella is the daughter of a German and a Russian. At the end of the 1990s, the musician, who was born in East Berlin in 1975, and her bands Contriva , Mina and NMFarner were considered the central stars of a Berlin post-rock branch, until she turned to her solo career in 2002 and released her first solo album Luck on Gudrun Gut's label Monika Enterprise published.

In the following years she toured worldwide and released four more solo albums on the Berlin label Morr Music . The album Speak Low - Loewe And Weill In Exile consisted of newly interpreted Broadway classics by Kurt Weill and Frederick Loewe .

Her most successful album to date, Keys , which was described by Der Spiegel magazine as her best to date, was released in Germany in 2016 ( Moor Music ) and in Poland in 2017 ( Jazzboy ). She toured Europe and Japan with Keys .

In 2019 Kurella sang in German for the first time on her EP Day after Day , which was released at Staatsakt . For Day after day she set a poem by Heiner Müller and a text by Einar Schleef ( Arthur ) to music . Arthur (a 12-minute piece) is originally a short story from 1981 in which the first-person narrator - the author's alter ego - takes a seagull with a broken wing home and nurses it back to health.

Since 2010 she has also been working with the British-German performance group Gob Squad , which she is the musician for her piece Revolutiuon now! to get and with whom they u. a. toured in the US, South America, Italy and Norway. In 2012 she brought Stefan Pucher to the Schauspiel Frankfurt a. M. ( Faust ) and in 2013 and 2014 at the Deutsche Theater ( Elektra and Was ihr wollt ).

As a composer, she made musical contributions to various documentaries and feature films. Two of her pieces of music from the album Unsolved Remained ( Destination Vertical and Feels Like ) were licensed for the Grey's Anatomy series .

Discography (selection)

Albums
  • 2002: Luck (Monika Enterprise)
  • 2005: Unsolved Remained (Morr Music)
  • 2009: Speak Low - Loewe And Weill In Exile (Morr Music)
  • 2012: Analogies (Morr Music)
  • 2016: Keys (Morr Music and Jazzboy)
Singles & EPs
  • 2002: I Want You To Know (Monika Enterprise)
  • 2005: Don't Stop The Dance / Saturday Night (More Music - A Number Of Small Things)
  • 2013: Boys Don't Cry / Fishing Buddies - James McNew Version (Morr Music - A Number Of Small Things)
  • 2019: Day after day ( State Act )

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jenni Zykla: Truly not a rampage pig . taz , June 17, 2009, accessed February 24, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Jens Uthoff: Crisis is your status quo. taz , March 30, 2016, accessed October 30, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Andreas Hartmann: Let's go fishing, my friend. Der Tagesspiegel , May 27, 2012, accessed on February 24, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Stefan Michalzik: An I says no. Frankfurter Rundschau , August 22, 2016, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
  5. ^ Luck - Monika Enterprise. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
  6. ^ Artist - Masha Qrella. Morr Music , accessed October 12, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Andreas Borcholte, Tex Rubinowitz, Andreas Spechtl: Abgehört - new music: first England trembled, now the whole world . In: Spiegel Online . April 13, 2016 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 12, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Stephanie Grimm: Concert recommendation for Berlin: "I lived in an amnesia" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . April 5, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed October 12, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Jens Uthoff: The wing of the seagull . In: The daily newspaper: taz . April 5, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 24 ( taz.de [accessed October 12, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Esther Boldt: Faust. Part One - Actor vs. Theater machine with Stefan Pucher in Frankfurt. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
  11. ^ Deutsches Theater Berlin: Deutsches Theater Berlin - Elektra, by Sophocles. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
  12. ^ Deutsches Theater Berlin: Deutsches Theater Berlin - What you want, by William Shakespeare. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Christian Rakow: Revolution Now! - Gob Squad conjures subversive energy in the great house of the Volksbühne. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
  14. ^ "Destination Vertical" - Masha Qrella. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
  15. ^ Viaggio sola. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
  16. ^ Music from Mistresses (US) S2E02. Retrieved October 12, 2019 (American English).
  17. ↑ THE SPIRITS THAT CALLED ME | Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Mein Berlin - 28 years with and without the wall (2018). Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Qrella, Masha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kurella, Masha (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin