Konzerthausorchester Berlin & Joana Mallwitz
Biography Konzerthausorchester Berlin & Joana Mallwitz
Katharine Mehrling
studied acting and musical theatre at the London Studio Centre and at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York. She made her stage debut in London's West End in "Hair". She has played numerous leading roles such as Sugar Kane in "Some Like It Hot" at the Bern City Theatre, Polly in "The Threepenny Opera" and Eponine in "Les Misérables" at the Saarland State Theatre in Saarbrücken, Lucy in "Jekyll & Hyde" at the Magdeburg Theatre, the title role in "Evita" at the Bielefeld Theatre, Fanny Brice in "Funny Girl" at the Dortmund Opera, the Nuremberg State Theatre and the Chemnitz Theatre, and Katharina/Lilli Vanessi in "Kiss me, Kate" at the Bad Hersfeld Festival. She created the role of Tippi Hedren in the musical "The Birds of Alfred Hitchcock" by William Ward Murta, which was written especially for her and premiered at the Bielefeld Theatre in 2010.
Katharine Mehrling has lived in Berlin since 2000 and has since performed the title role in "Irma la Douce", Emma in Andrew Lloyd Webber's one-woman musical "Stay Until Sunday" and the title role in "Piaf". She played Sally Bowles in "Cabaret" in the Bar jeder Vernunft in over 250 performances. At the Schlossparktheater she appeared as Little Erna in "Pinkelstadt", as Ottilie von Henkeshofen in "Wie einmal im Mai", as Lilian in "Die Drei von der Tankstelle" and as Amnesia in "Non(n)sens". The ensemble was awarded the Berlin theater prize "Golden Curtain" in 2010 for the song drama "Ewig jung" at the Renaissance Theater, in which she plays the 95-year-old Mrs. Mehrling.
In her first solo program "Hommages", Katharine Mehrling devotes herself to her love of French chanson. To do this, she lived in Paris for a while and followed in the footsteps of Piaf. After her second program "Bonsoir, Katharine!", which she presented at the Bar jeder Vernunft and other venues, she held the record release party for her first album with her own songs at the Tipi am Kanzleramt in Berlin. She wrote the album "Am Rande der Nacht" together with jazz legend Rolf Kühn and produced it in the Hansa Studios in Berlin. In 2011, Hessischer Rundfunk presented "An evening with Katharine Mehrling and the HR Big Band" in the large broadcasting hall. She then spent two months on stage at the Wintergarten Variety Show in Berlin in her personality show "Am Rande der Nacht", together with her band, dancers, international artists and special guest Rolf Kühn. For this, she was awarded the Lale Andersen Prize in Bremerhaven by Gitte Haenning in 2012.
Katharine Mehrling is a multiple winner of the national singing competition, was the jury president of the competition in 2013 and hosted the prizewinners' gala at the Friedrichstadtpalast. For her portrayal of Judy Garland in the play "End of the Rainbow" at the Berlin Schlossparktheater and for her debut at the Komische Oper Berlin as jazz composer Daisy Darlington in the operetta "Ball im Savoy", she was again awarded the audience prize "Golden Curtain", this time as the most popular actress of the 2012/13 theater season. In 2014 she returned to the Komische Oper as rancher Lona Farell in the concert premiere of the Emmerich Kálmán operetta "Arizona Lady" and presented her latest CD "Piaf au Bar" with concerts at the Bar jeder Vernunft.
In the Bryan Singer film "Operation Valkyrie - The Stauffenberg Assassination", Katharine Mehrling can be seen as a singer in the officers' club and can be heard on John Ottman's film soundtrack with the song "For a Night of Bliss". In the 2014 Christmas episode of the ZDF television classic "The Dream Ship", she played the role of Jenny Franzen.
