Katharine Mehrling - in Love with Judy

In 2012, Katharine Mehrling enchanted Berlin in the stage play "End of the Rainbow". She embodied the role of Judy Garland so intensely that she was once again awarded the audience prize, the Golden Curtain, for her performance - as Berlin's most popular actress. Now the celebrated stage star is dedicating a top-class concert to the legendary American entertainer and singer.

With many arrangements by her long-time musical director Ferdinand von Seebach and her 7-person band, Katharine Mehrling delves into Judy Garland's Great American Songbook - with songs like "Come Rain or Come Shine", "The Man That Got Away" and of course "Somewhere over the Rainbow", the song of longing with the promise of a better, freer life - beyond the rainbow. The song became an immortal gay anthem and the rainbow a symbol of diversity and tolerance.

"Judy has accompanied me for years through all the ups and downs. In these songs by composers like George Gershwin and Harold Arlen, Richard Rodgers or Irving Berlin, you experience the contrast between vulnerability and strength, great loneliness and love!"