Nanette Scriba

Nanette Scriba , born in Mainz , is a German musician , chanson singer , composer , lyricist and painter . She lives in Wiesbaden .

Artistic career

Nanette Scriba was born as the daughter of the cantor and organist of the Mainz Johanniskirche Hanswolf Scriba and his wife, the painter Eleonore Scriba. During her school days at Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium , she began to play the guitar and violin and to perform French chansons that she had heard for the first time during stays in France. In 1981 she released her debut album, French Chansons .

As a result, she increasingly began to write German-language texts and to find her own musical forms of expression. Scriba played in numerous live and TV concerts in Germany, France, Poland and China. Since then she has published her own lyrics and compositions on her albums, almost without exception. She completed a degree in art education and art history at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz , as well as a contact course in popular music at the Hamburg University of Music . In the years that followed, she worked full-time as a singer, chanson writer and composer, among others with Manfred Maurenbrecher , Dirk Raufeisen , Richard Wester and Heinz-Dieter Sauerborn . Larger became famous for a proffered by Scriba and translated into German version of Henry Purcell -title "The Cold Song", the soundtrack in the New York Fashion Week came in 2014 for use, and in the farewell scene episode of Eva Mattes from fourth December 2016 was recorded.

After a stay in Cape Verde in 2006, Scriba returned to painting and presented her work in various galleries and numerous exhibitions. She preferably creates her work with acrylic paint on canvas , as well as watercolors on handmade paper . She finds inspiration and motifs in her urban environment in Mainz, Wiesbaden and Frankfurt am Main as well as in Cape Verde, to which she regularly returns for longer stays. A catalog of these works was published with the title Unterwegs ins Licht .

Discography

French Chansons (1981, MKW records)
Poetry settings (1984, MKW records)
It's my turn (1989, MKW rekords)
In passing (1992, Sony Music)
The Chansons (1995, MKW records)
By and for you (1996, The Project)
Tender to Take (1999, Diraton)
With Burning Patience (2001, Diraton)
Here and Heaven (2004, Diraton)
On the way in the light (CD single 2007, Diraton)

Web links

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Scriba, Nanette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chanson singer
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mainz

[1] Youtube: Nanette Scriba - The Cold Song

[2] Exhibitions - official website of Nanette Scriba

[3] Volatility of the moment - (Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz, June 6, 2012)

[4] Galerie Rother Winter: Nanette Scriba Works

[5] Vita - official website of Nanette Scriba

[6] Galerie Lehnert, Mainz: Nanette Scriba - On the way into the light

[7] Nanette Scriba on Discogs.com