After completing her studies in literature, music, and sociology, she held a radio editorial internship and worked for one year as a radio play producer for the Südwestrundfunk (SWR) in Baden-Baden, Germany.
The focus of Vowinckel's work is on the musicality of the spoken word—for example, with the melodies in dialects and endangered languages, and with streams of automatic speaking, a playful method of continuous and instantaneous verbal reactions to an environment.
In recent years, she has also created sound performances, such as Organ and Objects[1] for electric organ and amplified objects, and live performances for automatic speaking.
She works as a freelance director, author, composer, and performer, moving increasingly from text to music.
[4] Her works have also been presented at numerous festivals, including the Donaueschinger Musiktage, Prix Italia,[5] Biennale Bonn, Klangwerkstatt Berlin, and Festival Musica Contemporanea Alicante.