photocredits: Jennifer Rohrbacher
Marianne Kirch (*1970, D/F)
is a singer-performer and theatre maker based in Badenweiler, Germany. With a background in contemporary music and performance Marianne realises her projects and collaborates across disciplines for audiences from 1 guest to a 1000. A favourite tool, technique and topic in her work is translation. Translation as a strategy for finding our way through the amazing absurdity and beauty of communication.
Marianne is fond of learning and sharing experiences, so teaching and community-based arts (with people of all ages) have always had a big share in her professional life.
Currently she is working on “contrepoints – performing extended vocal techniques and gestures”, funded by Musikfonds, Berlin and
“Au pays qui te ressemble”, a project funded by Laft, Baden-Würrtemberg, StudioProArte, Freiburg and the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts, Baden-Württemberg.
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some history…
From 1993 on she specialised in contemporary music for hammered dulcimer and voice, premiering works by Rudi Spring, Sandeep Bhagwati, Joan Guinjoan, Wilfried Hiller and others. Chanson as well as mediaeval music (Ensemble Sarband) became sidelines to her repertoire. Her concerts lead her all over Europe. In 2000 Marianne started writing songs and soundscapes for theatre and contemporary dance.
In 1998 she co-founded the performance ensemble Die Bairishe Geisha. The ensemble soon acquired cult status and was invited to venues as the Muenchner Kammerspiele, Kampnagel Hamburg, SpielArt Theaterfestival, Opernfestspiele Muenchen.
In 2008 Marianne traded Munich for Brussels to pursue solo work and new collaborations. SHIFT a performance on translation was her first lyrical piece on that enigmatic field between languages called translation. Essentially movement and song, it was accompanied by the graphic novel «SHIFT», in collaboration with Benoit Henken, Brussels, was scheduled to appear in print in 2013, instead it dissappeared into the net.
2010 the 2 turven hoog Festival in Almere, NL, invited her to present «Einpacken/Auspacken», her first performance for the beautiful audience of 0-4 years old. “einpacken/auspacken”
Since 2013 she lives near Freiburg, Germany with her family.