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| Ljiljana Petkovic grew up between coal mines and coal-fired power plants in a tiny Westphalian village called: Bockum Hövel. When she was 16 Ljiljana got a marriage proposal but she decided to study. Her lover married her best friend instead and from now on they lived happily in a town house next to his Mum.... Ljiljana went to Cologne for studies. One night there was a guy at her door and asked her friendly with a dry ruffled voice: "Lady, can you fry me a Schnitzel?" She refused because she had no meat at home but the guy had one piece of raw veal in each of his dirty pockets in his trousers.... Fuzzi, once a well situated doctor, who lived on the streets of Cologne with his old Indian blanket and a big black hat got his fried Schnitzel and offered his blanket in return. Maybe Ljiljana would have accepted it if she had known what was going to happen next. Fuzzi left a another gift - a big "brown" gift - on her doormat and unfortunately her roommate, a lawyer with a spleen for expensive handmade Italian leather shoes, stepped right into it the next morning! He freaked out completely! Luckily Ljiljana was able to escape to Berlin where his evil curse had no more power..... Under different names she started a colourful new life, performing as a "transvestite" in Caspar's Camp and Cafe Moscow, working as a blues singer with a piano player at Berlin's famous store KDW (the shoe department...), dancing as "Sally Bowls" in a techno adaption of the famous Broadway musical, playing a starring role in a movie called "Zuckerstücke" (shown at Berlinale), spinning music as a resident DJ at WMF club hosting her own event series: Solitaire Touring, a platform to promote unknown electronic musicians from Eastern Europe, doing spiritual cleanings at houses with bad vibes, washing hair at a hairdresser who recommended his female customers to use hemorrhoid cream against crows feet, working as a radio presenter doing a Swing and The Morning show, releasing music on Superstar, Warner and Monika Enterprise.... just to name a few. One Day Ljiljana got tired of her glamourous life. She was bored of her double life... her living in a fancy apartment with a roof terrace in front the TV Tower, meeting Diplomats at the radio and superstars of the electronic music scene in the club - and disappeared to London. There she was hiding in the Underground for a couple of years until she found herself. When she returned to Berlin she got her first German Chanson album in her pocket: "Hinter dem Spiegel", then founded the label "Brumtone" with her friend August Engkilde and started her own company: "Urban Peas": Last but least, she decided to stop calling herself funny names but went back to her birth name: Ljiljana Petkovic. (In case you know the lawyer with the Italian shoes give him a "ThanX for all!" - seriously!) Currently Ljiljana is busy working on her new album - dark electronic ambient minimal rock folklore! Sound artist / creator of audio spheres : Manuela Krause is a DJ with a conceptual approach to music, selecting tracks not for a certain genre but a “theme”, generating audio landscapes, corresponding with the design and architecture of the room where the performance takes place. The result is very atmospheric and her audio stories are surprisingly imaginary and multidimensional. With an excellent taste in electronic and acoustic music from various genres, she is able to create a relationship between the listener, the music and the place. Manuela plays either in a club - or in an art context. During the last 10 years she played at many clubs, but also exhibitions and galleries all over the world, like for example “Electric City” from “Modern Institute” in Glasgow or at “Children of Berlin” in New York. DJ and event promoter : She is an active member of the Berlin club- and music scene as a DJ, event promoter, musician and radio presenter since 1992. From 1995 - 2003 resident DJ at WMF Club Berlin, presenting her own first event - “Solitaire Touring”, a platform to introduce unknown electronic music artists from Russia and Eastern Europe, like for example SCSI-9 and Solar X from the legendary Moscow label arT-Tek”. “Solitaire Touring” was also her very first net radio show in 1996 on orang, orang.org. Musician / Singer / Actress : Manuela Krause has a cabaret, musical and acting background. She used to sing and dance in various projects, like “Cabaret 2010” - a techno adaptation of the famous Broadway musical “Cabaret” where she played the starring role of Sally Bowls. One of her past projects was the voice and piano project “Noujohama” with Hajo Dierichsweiler, former piano player of Melitta Sundstroem. Together they played an unforgettable Debut in 1994 at the “Metropol” in Berlin for the famous Gay Teddy Award. The Duo appeared with their music in “The real world, Berlin” on Premiere and made the soundtrack for the ZDF Documentary: “Life is a cabaret”. These days Manuela is a member of Barbara Morgensternʼs Chor der Kulturen der Welt, where she sings tenor and bass and she is busy with her brand new project : Ljiljana Petkovic Orchestra. Ljiljana Petkovic is the personification of Manuela's Slavic soul, which she inhabited from her mother who provided her with at least 50 % of Bosnian blood, a fiery temper, a strong passion for music and rhythm and her “melancholia”. Net activist : In 2001 Manuela became an active member of micromusic.net, a multimedia network_community_system which started as an online art and music project, but developed into a world wide open source net community with headquarters all over the world. Each headquarter is working on the vision to make the virtual community visible. Manuela, in this scene known as “Manou”, established the Berlin HQ and from 2002 until 2008 she organized and hosted regular micromusic workshops, festivals and live-music events like “microdisco” at the legendary bar “Automaten” by visomat inc. Radio Presenter : Since 1995 Manuela is a professional radio presenter, who worked at various commercial radio stations, like Jazzradio or star.fm in Berlin, Klassikradio in Hamburg and Radio 1 in Potsdam. As the first German presenter ever she won a medal at the “New York Radio Awards” in 2000 for her entertaining presentation of “The Saturday Swing Show”. To leave the format radio behind and enjoy the freedom to play her own selections of music, Manuela used to play at various pirate stations and hosted her own radio show “micropolis” on twen.fm. Manuela was also involved and participating in various art and culture radio projects like “Ersatzradio - 7 days of Room control”, re-boot, resonance and klubradio. These days Manuela is running her own net radio. Her monthly “Urban Peas Radio” sessions can be heard on brumtone and also on her own webpage www.manuelakrause.de. Since 2008 Manuela is running the label “Brumtone” with her friend August Engkilde from Denmark and she started her own music and entertainment company “Urban Peas”, organizing regular electronic music events at unusual places of the city, like an empty swimming pool on an urban camping site in the heart of Berlin (Tentstation). Selected DJ Gigs : 2008 DJ Set and live show at the vernissage "Whatever gets you through the night" by Jim Avignon and Fehmi Baumbach at “Galerie Tristesse de-luxe” Berlin 2007 DJ Set at the vernissage and record release party “The Happy Hobo and the return of the freaks” by Jim Avignon at “Galerie Kurt im Hirsch” Kastanienallee, Berlin 2007 DJ sets and live music for “sibSTANCIA” in Jekaterinburg, Novosibirsk and Barnaul in Siberia 2005 DJ Workshops, DJ Set and live music show at “Ladyfest Copenhagen” 2002 music production for a photo/video project in cooperation with photographer Heike Ollertz from Berlin and Ann Muller (aa-film,Luxemburg) about the “GDR Sonderbauten” shown at the exhibition” DDR-Sonderbauten, Berlin-Zentrum” at the gallery “Designtransfer” 2002 “Urban Drift Nightspace”, forum for transformatic urbanism, cooperation with Heike Ollertz, music production for her videos: Palast der Republik 2002 and Café Moskau 2002 and DJ set at the opening 2002 “Zwischen Palast Nutzung” Machbarkeitsstudie des Forschungsprojektes, “Urban Catalyst”, TU Berlin, Präsentation eines Zwischennutzungskonzeptes für WMF-Club, DJ set at the opening at Staatsratsgebäude, Schlossplatz, Berlin 2001 “novalog 2001 Tel-Aviv - Berlin new media experience” exhibition and festival with performances in Tel Aviv and Berlin, DJ sets in Tel Aviv at the festival and at the opening at “novalounge”, Staatsbank, Französische Strasse, DE-Berlin 2001 DJ set at the opening “The Making Of WMF - Ein Club auf Wanderschaft” – exhibition for “Deutsche Kulturtage”, Künstlerhaus Klaipeda in Lithuania 2000 EXPO wmf.fm_jukebox in cooperation with Pit Schultz (Klubradio) and visomat inc. 2000 Südgarten Deutscher Pavillon 2000 DJ set at the vernissage “Electric City” by “The Modern Institute”, a 4 months show covering the Glasgow music scene in “The Lighthouse”, Glasgow 1999 “Children of Berlin”, a “10 years after the wall” exhibition in New York, DJ sets at the opening party at “The window of the world” (107th floor of the World Trade Center) in Manhattan, the vernissage at art center “PS 1” and the after party at “Gavin Brownʼs Passerby” in Chelsea Clubs : "WMF Club" DE-Berlin (resident DJ), "Subclub / Optimo" Glasgow, “Culture Box” DK-Copenhagen, "U96" DE-Frankfurt, “Paradiso” NL-Amsterdam, “MS Stubnitz” NL-Rotterdam, “Dynamo Dvash” IL-Tel Aviv, “93 Feet East” UK-London, “Vega” DK-Copenhagen, “Relax Beat Factory” FR-Paris, “Cithea” FR-Paris, “Pudelclub” DE-Hamburg, “mercat de les flors” ES-Barcelona, "Alcazar" SE-Stockholm Festivals : 2008 Wundergrund, Sophiensäle DE-Berlin and Culture Box, DK-Copenhagen 2007 “summer splash” 02 Berghain - Kantine, DE-Berlin 2006 “summer splash” 01 tentstation, DE-Berlin 2005 UK fresh, Highbury Garage, UK-London 2003 Baldai, Klaipeda, Lithuania 2002 art futura, mercat de les flores, ES-Barcelona 2001 baldai, LT-Klaipeda 2001 pop komm. “Big Audio Earwash”, Arttheater, DE-Cologne 2001 sonar festival, DE-Barcelona 2001 futura, 4.international electronic music festival, BA-Sarajevo Selected Live Gigs : 2009 Jazzhouse DK-Copenhagen 2008 Wundergrund Festival, Literaturhaus, DK-Copenhagen 2007 Sibstancia Festival, Jekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Russia 2005 Ladyfest Denmark, Vega, DK-Copenhagen 2004 Cithea, FR-Paris 2003 Deutsche Kulturtage in Baldai / LT-Klaipeda 2002 93 Feet East, UK-London 2001 NBI, DE-Berlin 1996 Forbidden Planet, Techno Musical Shows @ WMF Club. DE-Berlin 1995 Tempodrom, DE-Berlin 1994 Metropol Theater Berlin, Gay Teddy Award Releases : Debut album “Ljiljana Petkovic Orchestra - Hinter dem Spiegel”,Brumtone "Mechanisches Mädchen” as OLimpia, 12“ Superstar Recordings "Robobrain”, Album with Danish electro jazz band “Elektrazz”, Musicsystem DK "Mein Freund der Baum”, 7” Monika Enterprise and Warner “Pop 2001 Compilation” The album “Tornow” will be released in February 2010 on Brumtone Discography : Debut album “Ljiljana Petkovic Orchestra - Hinter dem Spiegel” / brumtone "Mechanisches Mädchen” as OLimpia, 12“, Superstar Recordings "Robobrain”, Album with Danish electro jazz band “Elektrazz”, musicsystem DK "Mein Freund der Baum”, 7inch Monika Enterprise and Warner “Pop 2001 Compilation” WWW.DISCOGS.COM/ARTIST/MANUELA+KRAUSE |
