Nichtseattle

She is one of the most extraordinary songwriters of our time and since her double album
her double album "HAUS", released in April 2024, it is impossible to imagine the cultural landscape without
cultural landscape without her: Katharina Kollmann aka Nichtseattle. Hardly anyone manages to combine the
interweave the political and the private in their own songs as movingly as she does.
Katharina Kollmann is a singer-songwriter, choir leader and founder of a collective
housing project. Her music is both folk and indie rock. She processes the work of
East German singer-songwriters such as Gerhard Schöne as naturally as the US-American sound of the Pixies.
American sound of the Pixies. "There are no excuses in the music of Nichtseattle,
no small talk, no fake eroticism and pseudo-sentimentality, no tinsel and no frippery.
frippery. (...) But if you can deal with the raw unplasteredness of Kollmann's
Kollmann's soul construction site, then it is the most beautiful, warmest and most revealing
home away from home", wrote Andreas Borcholte enthusiastically in Der Spiegel about her
songs.
Her fourth album with the beautiful title "Große Liebe" will be released on 25.09.2026.
In ten songs set between Texas and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, she embarks on a
search for what is probably the most sung and written about topic ever. From
Disney to the Beatles, from the theater stage to the novel to the endless Rom-
Com: The ideal of great love occupies us all! Whether we like it or not! And that
at a time when the birth rate is constantly
and young people are consuming more pornography than ever before, but are statistically
are statistically having sex later and later.
In her songs, Katharina Kollmann finds the love of life above all in what used to be called the
what used to be called kinship: in interpersonal spaces, in friendships and
friendships and solidary communities. The proverbial whole village that
it takes to raise a child. And above all, she has finally found a solid band for her songs.
found a permanent band for her songs. In 2019, she set out as a duo with her album "Wendekid".
set out on the road. Since the extremely successful tour for the last album
a playful, permanent 5-piece formation has now been found: Sönke Torpus (electric guitar,
backing vocals), Juliane Graf (bass, backing vocals), Sebastian Albin (drums) and Gregor Leser (trumpet).
Gregor Leser (trumpet, flugelhorn, synthesizer).
She not only recorded the album with this band - guitarist Sönke Torpus
guitarist Sönke Torpus shared the role of producer on this album with Katharina Kollmann
but they also went on the "Große-Liebe" tour together: