Katharina Müther was born in Düsseldorf, Germany and graduated from the University of Freiburg in 1981, having studied Russian and music. She has explored and studied Yiddish songs since 1975 and studied the Yiddish language at the Volkshochschule (VHS) in Freiburg. She has been performing both in and out of Germany since the early 80s, solo as well as with the ensembles Duo Avierto (with Martin Schmidt on mandolin, bouzouki and bass), and Döner four one (with Murat Coskun on percussion, Annette Mayé on clarinet, and Winnie Holzenkamp and Andres Buchholz on bass). Katharina has also worked with the storyteller Gidon Horowitz since 1981. The birth of her most recent group happened in 1999 when she joined Roswitha Dasch from Wuppertal, Germany to form Duo Vajlu.