Ingo Brosch

Who am I ?

I was born and raised im Germany and moved to Brussels with my husband in 2017.

For 30 years I am working as an actor and singer  for theatre and TV / Film . A great place for my biggest passion : telling stories .

Mostly in a team with other creative people where we rehearse and work together. 

Level 5 is my artistic home since September 2020 for my second work : painting.

Here I am confronted with  telling that story all by myself .

So how did I get into Painting ?

Growing up in Germany I had to choose between music or art . Since I grew up in a very musically family with lots of singing and piano playing there was no doubt I was choosing music , I was always being totally frustrated in art class because it never looked the way I wanted it to be , I thought I just don’t  have a talent for painting or drawing.

I forgot about it and studied acting in singing in New York and Hamburg from 1989-1993 an became an actor .

After some years playing at several repertory theaters something funny happened. One evening while waiting in my dressing room backstage for my next scene , I sat in front of my mirror – there was a pencil and a piece of paper – I started drawing my eye without thinking about it  and lost the sense of time . So I had to  run not to be late for my  next scene on stage . After I finished that performance one of my colleague back in the dressing room asked `who draw Ingos´ eye. Wow , thats really good`. – I was surprised, I didn’t understand .  

Years later I read Betty Edwards `Drawing on the Right side of the Brain` and I became fascinated. Whenever I had free time next to my theatre of filming work , I studied drawing and later on painting as well. 

In Hamburg I studied drawing with Peter Schneider, painting with Sybille Kreynhop Kunstschule  and later on in Cologne at the Kölner Malschule.

What am I doing here at Level 5 ?

During the Corona pandamic I was looking for an atelier to paint and work  since my theatre contracts all got cancelled and I found Level 5.  

 Right now I am working on topics which had and still have an immense impact on me in 2020 . 

‚Loss’  ‚Urge‘  ‚Longing‘ . 

My favorite medium for painting  is oil and acrylic . Next to painting I love sewing, knitting and crocheting  , which I learned from my grandmother.

All of my work,  let it be acting , singing  , painting or  sewing , is my own personal way of telling stories . Sometimes stories of others , sometimes my own stories.  

To books that inspired me choosing my way to become a storyteller .

Ferdinand   by Leonni Leo 

Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift by Franz Werfel