Admiral Eva-Maria & Eric Wehrlin
Admiral Eva-Maria & Eric Wehrlin
Eric Wehrlin, born in 1961, experienced "not always being able to understand everything" as a child, when he and his parents moved through different cultural and linguistic areas (Bärndüütsch, Romansh, French and Italian) - and as a result he was unable to keep up at school. He therefore turned to music studies (classical guitar) and mime training (including with the great Dimitri in Locarno). This was followed by studies at an acting school in Vienna (where he met his spouse Eva Maria) and a joint study visit to America on the subject of rhetoric, communication and drama. At some point, he realized "that you don't have to understand everything yourself if you put it in the hands of our Lord". And he often reports on this live on stage and in various languages. Many years of part-time training in theology. You can read Eric's story here!
Eva-Maria Admiral, born in 1965, is not the child of choice of her wealthy parents as a girl (as a daughter, she is not a possible head of the family business and is later disinherited), but finds happiness in her secret children's acting world. This is followed by strict boarding school and an aversion to faith. But during a study-related visit to the cathedral in Chartres (it was about the windows), the Sorbonne literature student unexpectedly senses God's presence. She found a new faith through a student friend. And feels led by God to attend the leading Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna - and is accepted as one of 12 out of 2000 applicants! During her training, she met her future spouse Eric, whom she fascinated so much with her firm support that he also found his way to and with God. This was followed by 10 years in the ensemble of the Burgtheater in Vienna, the largest German-speaking theater in the world, as well as various roles at the Wiener Festwochen and the Salzburg Festival. You can read Eva-Maria's story here, read an exciting interview here and watch a TV interview about her own near-death experience here.
Together and individually, Eric and Eve-Maria are now active in many areas of communication (theater, speaking technique, breathing, voice, text design, rhetoric, video diagnostics) and preaching, including acting with ProChrist in the German-speaking world. They are also sought-after seminar speakers, from acting and improvisation to happiness seminars.
Health-related strokes of fate are inevitable - but time and again, the two feel the strength in and with the Lord. A filling station. A lucky filling station.
Eric's personal mission statement:
Life is what you make of it. God does not build terraced houses.
Life shrinks and expands. Proportional to my courage.
Eva-Maria's insight, vision and outlook:
"The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist."
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