Karl Scharnweber

After his school years in Rostock, Scharnweber began studying church music at the Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Halle in 1969.

In addition to this task, which he held part-time at the inner-city parish of Rostock from 1997 to 2016, he devotes himself to composing and performing new arrangements on various theological texts.

As early as the 1970s, Scharnweber worked with the Weber Trio to perform his own jazz compositions.

The works reach beyond church music and also deal with historical and contemporary critical themes.

Scharnweber is socially committed and is considered modest: he has performed with ChoralConcert in nursing homes, in the Justizvollzugsanstalt Bützow [de] or at Aids services.