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Performer Ute Lemper has refused to pigeonhole herself into one realm of entertainment. Whether dancing, singing, or acting, Lemper has learned to command the stage and her audience. Lemper was born to an opera singer mother and banker father in Muenster, Germany. Influenced by music at a young age, she studied piano, voice, and ballet.

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She grew up listening to American jazz and pop music. Her mother hoped that Lemper would decide on a career as a ballerina. I was more interested in performing, entertainment, acting. At age 15, Lemper kicked off her career performing in jazz and piano bars. From there, she continued her studies in acting at the Staatstheater Stuttgart. She went on to study classical theater at the prestigious Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.

She alternated between the parts of Grizabella and Bombalurina. She also performed in other stage productions like Peter Pan, in which she played the title role, and in Cabaret as Sally Bowles. Once the revue ended, the State Theatre in Stuttgart offered her an engagement to perform classical and contemporary drama. Starting with the music she learned and listened to in Berlin, Lemper wrote the script for a musical biography of Weill, from his early collaborations with playwright Bertolt Brecht and his flight from Nazi Germany in , to his American citizenship and his American musicals.

The news of her production spread throughout Europe.