Maja Posavec, a musician from Đakovo who works as both a singer and an actress, marked 20 years of her musical career last Saturday with a POMA project concert at Kinoteka in Zagreb. The event also served as the presentation of the live album 'POMA – Leaving a Lover', which found new life through live performance after its studio release last year.
Her acting path was not straightforward. Posavec completed her acting studies at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, but did not gain admission on the first attempt – she enrolled at the ADU only after her fifth try. Before that, she studied at the Faculty of Philosophy. She began her music career in the group Detour, and after that period, decided to try her hand as a songwriter. She worked on the project 'An Evening with Leonard Cohen' as well as her own authorial theatre.
The POMA project came about when Posavec began writing songs in English during her stay in India. She later enrolled in a master's programme in Berlin, having gone there because, as she noted, she was fed up with everything on our scene and needed a break. In the project 'Leaving a Lover', fairy tales, heroines' archetypes and the end of romantic relationships are connected.
Posavec also created the play 'Mamina kći vuk'. Actor Rade Šerbedžija invited her to act in the play 'Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh', and she collaborates with Rada and the Ulysses theatre. Although she is now more focused on music, theatre remains very attractive to her. She highlighted that it is harder for her to stand on stage as an actress and that she feels safer in music. She would tell herself to take care of her voice and vocal cords so that she could turn back time.
