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Johanna
Fassbender is a singer / performer/ songwriter / professional artist
/actress.
The languages
in which she sings are German, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish,
Greek, Jiddish.
Born in Cologne...childhood in Bavaria...ABBA - the first big musical
love...school choir...then Leonard Cohen...back to Cologne...Mozart's
"Requiem" in a church choir...Peter Gabriel, The Doors,
John Cale...a turn to the fine arts...studies in art...in her early
twenties Big Label-Contract as bassplayer and backing vocalist...again
fine arts...Francis Bacon...discovery of Eric Satie, Dead Can Dance...speech
training, studies in classical and jazz-singing...Lead-Singer of a
Big-Band…1996 development of her first own songs...together with
the musician and producer Markus Apitius: the birth of "Jo'N"...
concerts / cooperation with various musicians, eg. Mathias Schaffhäuser...a
short trip to Drum'n Bass... Lead-Singer of the Jazz / Bossa Nova-Group
NoBlues/FiveSenses with Robert Fontani, Frank Petersen, Herbert Kaupert,
Mike Haarman - 1998 cooperation / concerts with Markus Apitius, piano,
voc., Savvas Pavlidis, guitar, voc., Vera Junker, cello, Sebastian
T. Ellerich, percussion...first exhibitions..."blind nudes and
self portrait drawings"...big and abstract oil-paintings...1999
beginning of the work on "Rise & Fall"...piano lessons...engagement
with New Music...Iannis Xenakis...Strasberg-Training...Performances...2002
release of "Rise & Fall", produced by Markus Apitius...cooperation
/ concerts in Cologne / Bonn with Markus Apitius, guit., voc., Robert
Gasper, piano, voc., Mike Haarman, drums...2004 release of "Sweet
Nothings", produced by Markus Apitius...moving from Cologne to
Berlin...Travelling...studio in Berlin-Weissensee...and again concerts...CD
"two steps" with Kara Deniz/Savvas Pavlidis…produced
by Savvas Pavlidis...concerts / cooperation in Berlin with various
musicians, eg. Florian Appl, Justin Lépany, Wolfgang Ohmer,
Lutz Keller, Joro Gogow (“City”), Ilya Kurtev, Gloria Marcela
Dias Díts, Silke Daub… interpretation of Georges Brassens-Chansons…
singing old pontiac songs together with EUDOUSIN ...concerts in Greece
with Kara Deniz/Savvas Pavlidis, Pantelis Pavlidis, Loukas Metaxas,
Thimios Atzakas, Maria Simoglou…beginning with the work as reader/speaker/actress…
Some
references of Johanna Fassbender as musician/artist:
BR, WDR,
Deutschlandradio, HR, ArtRawGallery (New York), Theater im Ballsaal
(Bonn), Deutsche Welle, Internationaler Presseball (Bonn), Museumsmeile
Bonn, BUND, RWE, Kammermusiksaal des Beethovensaals Bonn, IGNIS (Köln),
Kantine (Köln), Crowne Plaza, Stadtgarten (Köln), Palace
Hotel (Berlin), Earth Festival (Vlasti, Greece), Siemens, Kölner
Bank, Auswärtiges Amt (Bonn) Bayer Leverkusen, WABE (Berlin),
Georges Brassens-Verein (Berlin), Festival Créole (Dortmund),
Mylos (Thessaloniki, Greece)), Festival St. Stefano (Athens, Greece),
PodcastOper (Berlin), Haus der Sinne (Berlin), Tour d'Atélier
(Düsseldorf), ARTheater (Köln), Poikilh Stoa (Patra, Greece),
Filmhaus (Köln), Köln Klang 2000 (Köln), Jazzmeile
(Köln), Harmonie (Bonn), Theater 89 (Jüterbog), Felluca
(Volos, Greece), Arcadas Theater (Köln), Studio672 (Köln),
BlueShell (Köln), MTC (Köln), BerlinGuitars (Berlin), ECC
(Berlin), Löhrer Hof (Hürth), Schokoladenmuseum (Köln),
Kulturhaus Mitte (Berlin), Bungertshof (Königswinter), Theater
im Kino (Berlin), Domforum (Köln), Schlot (Berlin), Orient (Thessaloniki,
Greece), Avlaia (Athens, Greece), Bulgarisches Kulturinstitut (Berlin)
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