Sonia Simmenauer was born in the USA and grew up in France. After studying languages (English-German) at the Sorbonne in Paris, she moved to Hamburg in 1982, where she founded her concert agency, Impresariat Simmenauer, in 1989. In 2008, she opened Café Leonar, along with the Jewish Salon at Grindel. In the same year, her book “Muss es sein” about life in a string quartet, was published by Berenberg. (Meanwhile translated into French, Spanish and English). In 2009 she moved with the agency to Berlin. In the summer of 2020 she handed over the direction of the Impresariat to her son Arnold Simmenauer, and since then she has been intensively advising and accompanying young artists. In 2022, she founded a Berlin Jewish salon at the Volksbühne.
