Vita‘ english

Silvia Sauer is a singer, improviser and performer, fascinated by musically exploring the extent of expression and the facets of human voice. Since years her quest includes among others: jazz and worldmusic, live-performances of silent movies worldwide (by invitation of Goethe-Institutes), multimedia projects with dancers and musicians, collective free improvised music and SoundArt. She integrates this wide range of music genres in her personal artistic style of expression and improvisation, which is characterized as a free, undogmatic and playful bridging of boundaries.

2023
Premiere of one-person play ‚Nadelstiche‚ (own production) at the Gallus Theater Frankfurt

2022
Premiere of solo performance ‚Das Auge hört mit‚ (The Eye Listens) as part of Fluxus Sex Ties – 60 years of Fluxus , Kunsthaus Wiesbaden
Premiere of ‚On‚ – audiovisual dance performance by PingPengPerformances as part of the opening program of art.ist, Wiesbaden

2021
‚Sudeln mit Lichtenberg‚, premiere audio-visual reading theater with Dietmar Bertram (narrator + puppeteer) and Silvia Sauer ( singer + voice performer / idea + concept / looper + audio-visuals), Theater in der Kurve Neustadt

2020
‚DrinnenDraussenDazwischen‚ (Inside-Outside-Between) Live SoundPiece with Looper at SONOHR Radio&Podcast Festival Bern (CH)

2019
IF – Premiere from audiovisual dance performance at NOW!Festival Berlin as Duo PingPengPerformances with Birgit Wieger (dance/performance/objects)
USU Sauer | Schwarz | Schiffelholz – Trio For Improvised Music with Ulrike Schwarz (flute, sax) and Uli Schiffelholz (drums)

2018
SWITCH – Premiere from audiovisual dance performance at NOW!Festival Berlin with Birgit Wieger (dance/performance/objects)
Kino Variété –  Kino Varieté is an initiative project of the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain on the occasion of its 10th anniversary in cooperation with the ZDF / ARTE film department, responsible for the film research.

2017
ART OMI: music residency Ghent (State New York)
Duo Zwitscherwerk with Sebastian Fuchs (voice) – Vocal Art

2014
KunstAnimiert! Cooperation with Leonore Poth (animated film) and performances with Live-soundtrack (voice + looper)

2013
Duo Sauer|Schliemann with Wolfgang Schliemann (drums) – Free Improvised Music
Duo Oberg|Sauer with Uwe Oberg (piano), Improvisation and ‚Off-Songs‘

2012
die Qsinen (the Cousins) with Daniela Daub (Juggling/Clown) – Varieté-Crossover

2008
Duo stimmig (since 2003) – with Jörg Mühlhaus (contrabass). Award Creole- Worldmusic in Hessen (Germany) – own compositions with elements of improvised music, jazz and worldmusic.

2007
Solo-project stimmtheater (voicetheater) with loopstation
Singer and actress in french multimedia production ‚Inside-Out‘, work-in-progress-performances in France and Iceland.

1995-2005
metropolis-projekt – ‚musical re-staging‘ of silent films (Metropolis, Faust…), invitations of Goethe-Institutes with performances in Philippines, China, Japan, Korea, Israel, Mexico, USA (Philadelphia), Russia, ….

since 1990
Degree in Interior Design, Employee in Architectural Office (part-time)

1986-1995
Singer in Modern Jazz Bands and study of Interior Design