When Morgenstern arrived in Berlin in 1994, the city was still in a state of post-Wall flux. Feeding off this energy, she seized the moment and, together with host Joe Tabu and other like-minded artists, kicked off the Wohnzimmerszene (living room scene) with its largely improvised concerts and parties. Malaria! co-founder Gudrun Gut was impressed and signed Morgenstern to her label Monika Enterprise. In the past two decades, she has dashed across the genre spectrum from synth-pop to experimental to choral (as the leader of HKW's Chor der Kulturen der Welt). On Monday, March 7 at the Roter Salon, she teams up with cellist Julia Kent, one of the collaborators on last year's seventh studio album Doppelstern, for a one-off concert extravaganza.
Michael Hoh
Berlin
Interview