Marie Scherzer is a trained and versatile singer whose voice moves fluidly between electronic, classical, and experimental styles. Deeply rooted in Berlin’s club and subculture scene, she has performed live vocals in house, techno, and indie-electronica projects at renowned venues and festivals such as About Blank, Watergate, Berghain, Kater Blau, Sisyphos, Heideglühen, Renate, Weekend, Casiopaya, RAW, Kpax, Hangar, Tresor, Suicide Circus, Fusion Festival, Centrum Erfurt, and Elipamanoke Leipzig.
At the same time, Marie has a strong background in jazz, classical, and musical singing. She began her vocal training as a teenager with classical technique, later expanding into jazz, musical, and pop at the Music and Art School in Jena. She performed jazz standards live with a jazz band at venues such as Kassablanca Jena, Volkshaus Jena, and Theaterhaus Jena, sang chansons and classical pieces in musical productions at the Volksbad Jena, and worked as a background singer for reggae, ska, and hip-hop bands—always driven by curiosity and genre fluidity.
In 2021, Marie contributed vocals to the official soundtrack of the ARD series “Eldorado KaDeWe”, written by Inga Humpe, Tommi Eckart, and Matthias Petsche. The series was later awarded the Deutscher Fernsehpreis (German Television Award) for Best Music. Marie also appeared in the series in the role of a singer.
One of her most widely recognized contributions is the 2012 release “Memories” by Romeofoxtrott feat. Marie Scherzer. The deep-house track became a club favorite and was supported by remixing DJs such as Alle Farben. Marie’s distinctive vocal tone played a key role in the atmosphere of the track and helped establish her as a dynamic voice in the electronic music scene.
In collaboration with producer Sebastian Porter for Lebensfreude Records in 2013, she created two deep house tracks that reflect her interest in literature, theater, and philosophy, inspired by her time at acting school:
• For the track “Those Propel”, she used one of her favorite Nietzsche quotes:
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
• In the track “Moon”, she drew inspiration from her 2013 acting school role as Lady Anne in Richard III by William Shakespeare. She incorporated a quote from Romeo & Juliet in an effort to channel the themes she explored in her acting training and to find a personal, contemporary connection through her love of house and techno music:
“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.”
This line became both the lyrical and conceptual core of the song, and later the title of the entire EP.
Marie’s work blends emotional depth with rhythmic sensitivity, shaped by the artistic worlds she grew up in—as a theater and musical kid surrounded by chanson, opera, jazz, and classical music, while simultaneously immersed in the techno subcultures of Jena and Berlin. She continues to search for a “sweet spot” between these seemingly opposing realms and believes in bridging high culture and underground culture, rather than separating them.
After moving to Berlin at eighteen, Marie became an integral part of the city’s nightlife and underground scenes, launching collaborative vocal sets with DJs and collectives. Her voice became a key element in interdisciplinary performances across club and festival culture, where song, choreography, and visual storytelling seamlessly intertwined.
In an interview, she once said:
“I listen to all kinds of music, so naturally I enjoy singing anything that moves or challenges me. I’d never limit myself to one genre—why would I?”