ArtistInfo

Thea Dorn

voc, *1970 DE, Offenbach am Main
Singer of Jazz, Classical and Spoken Word

Thea Dorn (pseudonym; Christiane Scherer, born July 23, 1970), is a German writer of crime fiction and TV host. She lives and works in Berlin.Born in Offenbach, Hessen, Dorn was initially trained as a singer, and later studied philosophy and theatrical sciences in Frankfurt and Berlin. She graduated (Magistra) in philosophy with a work on self-deception. She worked as scientific assistant at the Free University of Berlin, then as dramaturge and writer at the Staatstheater Hannover. Thea Dorn's pseudonym alludes to Theodor Adorno, whose works she read and found hard to understand. (See the interview on Adorno.) After receiving her M. A. in philosophy, she became a freelance writer.

Genres

• Jazz
• Classical
• Spoken Word