Anna Leopolder has been passionate about rhythm and music for most of her life (first DJ set at the age of 16 ..). In the 90s, she was founding member of two notorious trash/punk bands in Hamburg, Germany: “Mausi Sisters” – Kathrin Kuhrau (guitar), Pia Burnette (vocals), Bruno Maier (drums), Anna Leopolder (bass) “Meckatzer Bubn” – Marcel Petri (guitar, vocals), Kathrin Kuhrau (drums), Anna Leopolder (bass) At that time she also studied fine arts at the academy of arts in Düsseldorf, Germany (Kunstakdemie) and later in Berlin (Hochschule der Künste).

Her visual work consists of painting and photography. In Hamburg – and later in Berlin – she played mainly deep house and minimal as DJ Anna Elle. Her music oscillates between beauty and weirdness, poetic finesse and sudden aggression. The harmonies of her tracks are often broken by unsettling, leftfield twists with a lurking tension sometimes unresolved until the very end. It is that kind of music which she loved to play in her early morning DJ sets when the mainstreamers were gone and the special part of the night was just beginning…