Regina Sommer
Storyteller
Regina Sommer is a storyteller since 1988. She performs in festivals in the US, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Austria, Italy and Germany, as well as in schools, kindergartens, at libraries, senior citizen homes, castles, parks and prisons, alone or with musicians, dancers or painters.
Her repertoire contains fairy tales, myths, legends, own stories and literature (George Sand, Oscar Wilde, Hermann Hesse, Arthur Schnitzler, Tonino Guerra).
In Germany, she created a program for the French Department of the University of Aachen RWTH, King Arthur and the secret of his two swords.
A program about kid soldiers: Heroes of our time and one about the French sculptor Camille Claudel: The hands you took followed.
After her storytelling in the Congregation Habonim, a synagoge build by Holocaust survivors in Toronto, Canada the Jewish teller Gidon Horowitz and herself developed the program ‘Lost Stories’. It will premier in November 2008.
In 1996, she opened the House of Stories and Tales in Aachen. Regina Sommers’ goals are to develop the acknowledgement of storytelling as an art form, to establish a network of national and international storytellers and to create intercultural projects.
Since 1997, Regina Sommer organizes yearly the international storytelling festival Zwischen -Zeiten / In-between-times, which was the first of its kind in GermanyFestival website: www.maer.de
Since 1999, she invents and organizes international school projects “Food for thoughts” was followed by “Theseus -a journey through the European” . the last one “Impuls of the cultures” just started this fall.
Regina Sommer is one of the first artists who joined the MUS-E programme; she has been working for the Yehudi Menuhin Stiftung Deutschland for the last 10 years.
