Wiebke Hoogklimmer

Wiebke Hoogklimmer, Contralto and Stage Director, began her education at the Academy of Music and Acting in Hamburg where she studied opera direction on the course initiated by Prof. Goetz Friedrich, and graduated with distinction. She has worked as assistant director, stage manager, and substitute in the artistic management office at the Niedersaechsischen Opera in Hannover, the Hamburg State Opera, the German Opera Berlin and the International Summer Course at Schloss Weikersheim. During this time she worked with the following directors and stage designers: Guenter Roth, Stephan Mettin, Martin Rupprecht, Hans-Peter Lehmann, John Cox, John Dew, Erhard Fischer, Herbert Wernicke, Goetz Friedrich, Andreas Reinhardt.
After finishing her studies she started private vocal tuition with Elisabeth Umierski (Berlin) and continued with Prof. Annie Schoonus (Academy of Music and Acting in Hamburg) and with Christiane Bach-Roehr (Comic Opera Berlin). In 1988 to 1991 she sang with the RIAS chamber choir and had her first solo stage appearance in the role of Arnalta in Monteverdi's "Coronation of Poppea" at the Junges Theater Goettingen. She went on to sing the parts of both the king and queen in Toovey's "Ubu" at the opera stabile of the State Opera in Hamburg and then the parts of the Third Lady in Mozart's "Magic Flute" and Orfeo in Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice". Wiebke Hoogklimmer mainly works as a solo contralto, giving concerts and recitals. Her repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary music. She equally enjoys singing well known and lesser known and unusual works.
Wiebke Hoogklimmer and the pianist Prof. Patrick Walliser have been working together since 1998.
In 2003 their CD "Clairières dans le ciel" was published with the so named song cycle by Lili Boulanger - transposed for contralto - and with selected songs by Schubert and Mahler, and at the piano Patrick Walliser with the Label THOROFON.
2006 her CD "Franz Schubert: Winterreise" was released with a live recording of a Lieder Recital with her own Label.
Through her great interest in film she has worked as assistant to costume design and props management for the film production of "Superbia" by Ulrike Ottinger. 1994 Wiebke Hoogklimmer has worked for the first gay and lesbian film festival in St. Petersburg. 2006 she has worked as a production assistant for the filmproduction "18.15 Uhr ab Ostkreuz", which has the world première at the Berlinale.

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