Eva Wiest

Eva Johanna Wiest was born in 1974 and spent her youth making noise. She could read music by the age of four and taught herself to read and write soon after by means of the few letters she already knew (e - f - a ...). Having succeeded in becoming thoroughly clasically overeducated, she rejected 'opera singer' as a career path at the age of 19 and wrote her first Filk song one year later. It took her two more years (until a 1995 Star Trek Con, where she met Ju Honisch, Katy Dröge and Christine Hintermeyer) to find out what it was she had been doing all this time, and another ten seconds to become terminally infected with the Filk virus. In late 2001, she joined Christine ("Crystal") Blum to form Summer & Fall (www.summerandfall.de) in order to support the Kleenex industry through their notoriously sad songs. She plays guitar (preferably 12-string), all kinds of recorders, church organ (though rarely in Filk songs) and piano. She also pretends to play bodhran, acoustic bass and any other instrument that she can get her hands on for longer than five minutes. When she is not busy doing so, she plays roleplaying games, fails at martial arts and condemns unwary people in her job as a criminal judge. She currently lives in Mannheim, Germany, with her Canadian husband Rafael and a constantly growing collection of instruments.