Horse leisure, fire ceremonies and Balkan rhythms: the former “Schandmaul” violinist Anna Katharina Kränzlein now leads a dropout life. What drives you from the big stage to the provinces – and how do you find your musical self again?
When did the doubts begin? Anna Katharina Kränzlein, born in 1980, no longer knows exactly. Maybe on that August weekend 2014 after midnight in Wacken. your band shameface was waiting for their performance at this big heavy metal festival in Schleswig-Holstein, in the audience tens of thousands of people, they too in anticipation and in a party mood – a dream for every musician. Actually.