Christina Linhardt

{{short description|American singer, actor, and director}}

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| alma_mater = University of Southern California

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LA Music Award, 2015

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Christina Linhardt is a German-American singer, actor, and director, best known for her roles in the production of the film Guantanamo Circus, and as the former fiancée of Prince Daniel of Saxony.{{Cite news|date=December 2000|title=Ballgeflüster|language=German|page=11|work=Stadt Magazin}}{{Cite news|date=Winter 2001|title=Recent Visitors|page=6|work=PastForward: The Newsletter of the Shoah Foundation}}

Linhardt produced, directed, and wrote Guantanamo Circus, which won a Hollywood F.A.M.E. Award for "Documentary of the Year,"{{Cite news|last=Li|first=Sherrie|date=October 29, 2013|title=When the Circus Came to Guantanamo Bay|work=LA Weekly|url=https://www.laweekly.com/when-the-circus-came-to-guantanamo-bay/}}{{Cite web|title=Hollywood FAME Awards|url=http://www.acbentertainment.com/hollywood-fame-recipients/|access-date=May 9, 2021|website=A.C.B. Entertainment}} and was selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in its permanent collection.{{Cite web |date=2013 |title=Guantanamo Circus |url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?&bibId=19578407 |website=Library of Congress Catalog}} The film also won an LA Music Award{{cite web|date=2015|title=Vanphear Circus|url=http://www.lamusicawards.com/act/vamphear-circus/|work=LA Music Awards}} for its music score by Linhardt. She is staff writer for the California Philharmonic Orchestra.{{cite web|date=18 October 2017|title=Introducing Christina Linhardt|url=http://www.calphil.com/blog-1/2017/10/18/introducing-christina-linhardt|work=California Philharmonic}}{{Cite news|last=Linhardt|first=Christina|date=April 23, 2018|title=The Best Live Concert in LA This Summer|work=MITH Magazine|editor-last=Glasser|editor-first=Holly|url=https://mithmagazine.com/the-best-live-concert-in-la-this-summer/}}

Linhardt has released two music CDs: Circus Sanctuary and Voodoo Princess.{{Cite news|last=Scope Staff|date=April 14, 2008|title=Christina Linhardt 'Voodoo Princess' Takes Us On A Journey|work=Scope Magazine|url=https://skopemag.com/2008/04/14/christina-linhardt-voodoo-princess-takes-us-on-a-journey}} She performs on vocals and flute with the Angels of Venice,{{Cite web |last=Tatum |first=Carol |date= |title=Angels Of Venice |url=https://www.angelsofvenice.com/ |access-date=Apr 8, 2023 |website=Angels Of Venice}}{{cite web |date=2013-12-07 |title=Songs of the Season Sound at the Museum |url=https://www.lagunabeachindy.com/songs-season-sound-museum/ |access-date=2023-04-08 |website=Laguna Beach Local News}} and has been interviewed on LA Talk Radio,{{Cite web|last=Leona|first=Priscilla|date=January 19, 2020|title=Question Reality Archives: January 2020: Christina Linhardt|url=https://www.latalkradio.com/content/question-reality|website=LA Talk Radio}}{{Cite web|title=Christina Linhardt: Question Reality Radio|url=https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/christina-linhardt/id292847888?i=1000463491927|access-date=May 9, 2021|website=Apple Podcasts}} KPFK Radio{{Cite web|last=BWW News Desk|date=January 28, 2021|title=KPFK's ARTS IN REVIEW Spotlights Laguna Live Valentine's Concert, Starring Soprano Christina Linhardt|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/article/KPFKs-ARTS-IN-REVIEW-Spotlights-Laguna-Live-Valentines-Concert-20210128|website=Broadway World}} and KPC Radio.{{cite web|author=Lawson|first=Mareo-Ahmir|date=19 March 2015|title=In The Hot Box – 03.19.15 – The World's a Stage with Christina Linhardt|url=http://kpcradio.com/in-the-hot-box-03-19-15-the-worlds-a-stage-with-christina-linhardt/|work=KPC Radio}} Linhardt played the role of "Party Clown" in Movie 43. She starred opposite Maximilian Schell in a production of Goethe's Faust Comes to Grand Avernue, for which she was also associate producer.{{Cite news|date=December 2, 1999|title=Goethe's Faust Comes to Grand Avenue|work=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-dec-02-ca-39525-story.html}}{{Cite news|last=Steinberg|first=Ingrid|date=January 2000|title=Ein Teuflisch Schöner Abend mit Maximilian, Musik, Mephisto und Faust|language=German|page=11|work=Stadt Magazin}}

The daughter of scholar, historian, playwright, and biographer Cornelius Schnauber, Linhardt grew up in the company of notable Swiss writers such as Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Hugo Loetscher, and Peter Bichsel.{{cite web|date=20 November 2019|title=Ich tanzte mit Dürrenmatt, bis er umfiel|url=https://www.weltwoche.ch/ausgaben/2019-47/artikel/ich-tanzte-mit-durrenmatt-bis-er-umfiel-die-weltwoche-ausgabe-47-2019.html|language=de}} She attended the Goethe Institute in Berlin, later studying French at the Eurocentre in Paris, drama and movement at Oxford University, and went on to achieve her diploma in singing with a minor in theater science at the University of Southern California.{{Cite news|last=Köhler|first=Klaus|date=Fall 2003|title=Christina Linhardt - ein Allaroundtalent|language=German|work=Top Magazine|url=http://www.circussanctuary.com/press/downloads/top_profile.pdf}}{{Cite journal|date=March 9, 2018|title=The Beauty of Variety: Christina Linhardt Covers the Artistic Gamut|url=https://internationalmusician.org/christina-linhardt/|journal=International Musician}}{{Cite news|last=Holing|first=Mary|date=March 30, 2006|title=1997 Alumna Christina Linstadt Mixes Cabaret, Opera and the Circus|volume=CXLVIII|work=Daily Trojan|issue=47|url=http://www.circussanctuary.com/press/downloads/daily_trojan.pdf}} She currently lives in Los Angeles.