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Mirjam Wiesemann

Mirjam Wiesemann
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Wiesemann in 2012
Born 1964 (age 52–53)
Düsseldorf
Occupation
  • Actress
  • Author
Organization Cybele Records
Awards
Website www.mirjam-wiesemann.de

Mirjam Wiesemann (born 1964) is a German actress and author. She is a co-founder of Cybele Records, and the artistic director and speaker of its audiobooks, with a focus on contemporary music.

Wiesemann was born in Düsseldorf the daughter of the pianist and composer Bernd Wiesemann. She studied acting in her hometown.

Wiesemann has appeared on stage in Krefeld, Bochum, Köln, Düsseldorf and Bonn. She has performed in films and television plays, including the series Auf Achse, T.V. Kaiser () and Lindenstraße. She played the part of Edelfräulein in Helge Schneider's film Texas – Doc Snyder hält die Welt in Atem ().

In 2004 she was a co-founder of Cybele Records, together with her husband Ingo Schmidt-Lucas (). She has been the artistic director and speaker of its audiobooks, a series "Wort und Musik" related to music. Titled "Künstler im Gespräch" (Artists in conversation), she introduces the music of contemporary composers in selected examples from their compositions and conversation, for example talking to the son of Karl Amadeus Hartmann, with additional historic sound documents by the composer and his wife. She focused on string quartets by Hans Erich Apostel and Requiem music by Hans Werner Henze in 2010, on piano music by Pierre Boulez, including the first complete recording of his compositions for piano, in 2013, concertos by Jacqueline Fontyn in 2014, and music for ensemble by Juan Allende-Blin in 2016. In 2014 she published an art book with a sound CD, Weht ein Stadtspaziergang durch den Traum, for the 20th anniversary of Cybele Records.


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