artist, Crash!Boom!Bau! Festival

project: The Circle is Red

Ulrike Haage is a pianist, sound artist, composer and radio play director. Besides her participation in the music group Rainbirds, she worked with renowned theatre directors at theatres in Zurich, Duesseldorf and Berlin. She used to compose music for Bernd Wilms at the Maxim-Gorki theatre Berlin. Together with the publisher Pociao she founded publishing  house 'sans soleil' in Germany.
In 2000 was the first premiere of 'Hunger – spoken Pop Songs with Katharina Franck' and was presented at the Intermedium festival in Berlin (Berlin Academy of the Arts).
In 2003 she received as first female and youngest nominee the German Jazz Prize (Albert Mangelsdorff Prize) for connecting pop, art and avantgarde. In 2004 was the first premiere and concert of her first solo album 'Sélavy' (solo grand piano and experimental movies) at DOCK 11 in Berlin. Followed by the first premiere in 2006 of her second solo album 'White Land' (solo grand piano and electronics) at the Hebbel am Ufer theatre in Berlin.
In 2008 and 2009 she created new radio productions for the public broadcaster WDR (the six part trailer "Wind in den Weiden"), BR ("Alles aber anders - radio play on the artist Eva Hesse"), and SWR (composition for mezzo-soprano and grand piano for Stephan Krass' radio play "Amnesie der Ozeane"). Currently she is preparing her third solo album.

Samir Köck:
"Again and again Ulrike Haage steps across borders and consequenty works against categories. In her music as well as in her radio plays, she is intrigued by the phenomenon of "immediate sensual listening" and sound as particular kind of articulating a presence while being unpredicatable.
At the intersection of pop and avantgarde she transmits physical desires as well as the exhaustion of the soul. Having her play, she celebrates with as well as provokes her audience, but definitely creates a moving dynamic by dealing in her very idiosyncratic way with silence, too."