Teresa Riemann (* 1988) lives and works as musician (compositions / improvisations: drums, piano, voice), performance-artist and writer since 2012 in Berlin. A curious mind that seeks the holes in the ground, windows to another world, often discredited as 'échappatoires' (engl. = escapism). Instead of literature, art or music, being shocked at an early age by the terror and destruction that art teachers inflicted on their pupils, she decided to protect her expression from hostile influences and the normalized logic of exploitation and studied the human mind instead.

She started classical music with the piano at 6 years old, later discovering and exploring different instruments on her own: Guitars, Cello and since 2012 the drums.

Since then she has developed her very unique style of convulsive percussion, that she accompanies with the eclectic use of her fragmented voice, spontaneously reciting bribes

of the living memory of humankind.

Since 2013 she is active in different musical collaborations to be situated inside the broad field of new music that yet come with a raw energy and find themselves far from a hygienical tidiness of pure intellectualism. 

She has worked with musicians like Amélie Legrand, Phil Minton, Bob Rutman, Mark Reeder, Norbert Stammberger, Rieko Okuda, Otto Horváth, Ivo Podržaj, Matthias Koole, Jean-François Laporte, Victor Negri, Julia Mihàly, Laura Robles, director Ekehardt Rainalter, modern dance choreograph Mirjam Gurtner, the theater collective andpartnersincrime and many more.

Apart from various collabs and bands (Naked in the Zoo, TRAS, Shake the Train, Matter Kori, Riemann x Whitehill),  she works solo, as ‘Teresa Riemann’ on drums & vocals, and as ‘A tender kiss into the void’ on piano & vocals.

Besides her work as a musician and composer, she has been writing lyrical prose since she was 11 years old, occasionally presenting her texts in public.  She produced numerous disturbing performance art pieces (e.g. ‘Was kostet ein Herz’, 'Kiss of life’) as well as one theater play (‘punch me’), and collaborated as actress and writer in other productions (e.g. ‘Akhtamar’). 

Maxime: To do as many things possibly, simultaneously.

She has played on festivals like Heroines of Sound (DE), Braille Satellite (LT), Les habitées (FR), REM (DE), Pied Nu (FR), Mózg (PL), Enfin Seul (FR), Discomfort Dispatch (IT), Queerfest (PL), and staged performances and theatre plays at Choufthouhonna (TUN), Zwischenraum Festival (DE), SOTODO (DE), Urkult (IT) and Onomatopoesietage (AT), to name a few.

Every dogma is a coma would best describe her artistic approach.

CONTACT ME: riemannteresa(at)gmail.com