News & Events

Current news and events of New York-based Karen Kohler – German-American singer, writer, poet, podcaster, mentor and community-builder.

Cabaret Director of the German Forum

By |2020-07-10T13:06:10-04:00May 19th, 2009|Key Dates, News & Events|

On June 10 2008, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the German Forum, Karen was invited to perform for the Forum at the Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) Theater in NYC alongside German-born Actress-Singer Micaela Leon and Australian newcomer Kim Smith in It's All a Swindle/Alles Schwindel: An Evening of Weimar Berlin Cabaret, with pianist Uli Geissendoerfer. As a result of [...]

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Little Death: Songs of Coming & Going

By |2022-08-29T17:56:13-04:00October 8th, 2008|Key Dates, News & Events|

Little Death: Songs of Coming and Going, a daring and provocative musical performance exploring the erotic intersections between sex and death, debuted Off-Broadway at the Zipper Factory Theater on October 8, 2008 and ran to October 28. In the wake of  high praise from critics and audiences alike, the show was extended from November 5 to 18, 2008. Known [...]

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The Kohler Cabaret Scholarship is Unveiled

By |2020-05-06T21:22:46-04:00September 26th, 2007|Key Dates, News & Events|

Karen and Robert M. Kohler endow the world’s first cabaret scholarship, the Peter E. Kohler Scholarship in Cabaret Performance at Long Island University, Greenvale, NY where the couple met as college students in 1982 and married in 1988. It is named for her late father-in-law who, as a musician and former American soldier, introduced her to the music of [...]

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Kabarett Fête: New York’s first European Cabaret Festival

By |2020-05-06T21:43:32-04:00January 23rd, 2007|Key Dates, News & Events|

As part of her continuing effort to nurture the European cabaret arts in New York City, Karen and Robert Kohler conceived and produced New York's first festival for European cabaret, Kabarett Fête, from January 23-27, 2007. Nine performers from seven countries delivered the European cabaret songbook in the city's first cabaret festival devoted to the European cabaret arts. These [...]

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A Marvelous Party

By |2020-05-06T21:54:18-04:00December 16th, 2005|Key Dates, News & Events|

2005 - 2007 had Karen traveling and flexing her interpretative muscles in multiple genre. She took her jazz standards and Boswell Sisters songbook (which she's been covering since the mid-90s) to the A-Trane and the BKA Theater in Berlin, her family home. She created a new musical theater tribute for the Jermyn Street Theater in London called Speak Low: [...]

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“Vienna to Weimar” debuts at The Neue Galerie, NYC

By |2023-01-03T13:27:20-05:00May 2nd, 2003|Key Dates, News & Events|

Debut of Vienna to Weimar with KT Sullivan at Cafe Sabarsky at the Neue Galerie, NYC with Jed Distler on piano. Both ladies were dressed in gowns. An encore run occurred at the Sabarsky in March of the following with Karen donning her signature tux. Over the years this popular duo show received critical praise and awards and was [...]

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The Kabarett Kollektif is born!

By |2022-01-28T12:49:44-05:00April 3rd, 2003|Key Dates, News & Events|

With the vision to further the European cabaret arts, Karen brought together a number of European-born cabaret artists living in New York City in the spring of 2003 under the banner of Kabarett Kollektif. The group's debut performance occurred at the venerable Duplex Cabaret with musical direction by Doyle Newmyer and featured Germans Karen Kohler, Theo Bleckmann and Dirk [...]

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The Marlene Dietrich Songbook

By |2020-05-07T08:57:03-04:00October 16th, 2001|Key Dates, News & Events|

Debut of The Moons of Venus: Romancing Marlene Dietrich at Danny's Skylight Room in New York City with pianist/arranger Uli Geissendoerfer. Karen honored the Dietrich the centenary with performances as follows (Uli Geissendoerfer, piano except where noted): December 5 and 6, 2001 ~ Marlene Dietrich: 100 Years ~ the Embassy Series at the German Embassy, Washington, DC. A review [...]

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Cabaret History

By |2020-12-25T14:54:48-05:00May 23rd, 2000|Key Dates, News & Events|

May 23, 2000. Karen gave her first lecture on the history of cabaret entitled, The Chronicle of Weimar Cabaret, at the Armstrong Music School of the Austin Lyric, Opera in Austin, TX. She has since conducted workshops and master classes on the history of cabaret, Kleinkunst, and the art of performance in conjunction with her concerts worldwide. Today she [...]

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New York Cabaret and Jazz Debut

By |2021-11-17T12:41:34-05:00April 6th, 2000|Key Dates, News & Events|

Karen makes her New York cabaret debut with Das Kabarett: European Cabaret and American Pop on April 6, 2000 at Don't Tell Mama accompanied by Tom Farrell on piano. Karen's first New York jazz performance occurred at the venerable salon series in Sugar Hill Harlem, Sundays at the Triple Nickel, hosted by Marjorie Eliot on March 18, 2001. The [...]

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