WHERE WERE YOU BORN? HOW DID YOU GET STARTED IN IMPROV?
I was born in Hamburg, Germany many years ago ... and I actually started to improv that very day ... Basically, having left the security of the womb and finding ourselves seriously dependent upon communicating with other people in order to survive - and quoting Tom - "There is not a moment in life that we don’t improvise." Put more existentially, the human condition is the unspoken creator of improv.
WHO WERE YOUR ACTING/IMPROV INFLUENCES, ROLE MODELS?
Well, actresses I love are Diane Keaton, Isabelle Huppert, Meryl Streep.
Personally, I have been influenced by Jessica Brands and Martina Kock in Bremen, Germany.
WHO WERE YOUR TEACHERS?
I feel I should start with the most recent one, Tom Soter, since all of the other names are probably unknown in this country. But here they are: Jana Köckeritz, Frank Stuckenbrock, Roland Huus, Holger Möller.
WHAT DO YOU GET OUT OF PERFORMING?
What I love most is responding on the spot to other people’s ideas and ways of interacting. Being a psychologist, I do that all the time – but on stage the advantage is that I can use free association without the restrictions towards actually acting on impulses.
DETAIL, CHRONOLOGICALLY, YOUR IMPROV RESUME/CAREER?