A rapper who lives between “street filth and Beverly Hills”. With sharp lines, social criticism and an unagitated style, Donna Savage is conquering the German rap scene: she studies, lives art and asks herself questions that others would rather not ask. In her sound, anger meets reflection – and opens up space for change. This will be the case at #SciBall25 at 1:00 a.m. when she performs at the disco.

Donna Savage is a name that sounds like a battle cry and a wink at the same time. Behind this pseudonym is Alice Mohrenschildt, a 26-year-old rapper from Vienna who is making a name for herself in the still male-dominated German rap scene with hard-hitting punchlines and an unmistakable style. The fact that she is also studying for a master’s degree in printmaking at the University of Applied Arts and has maintained a grade point average of 1.0 for years is only a side note – or maybe not.

For Donna Savage, as for many others, the path to a rap career began by chance. In a friend’s apartment, equipped with a microphone and little more, she was thrown in at the deep end, so to speak. “If you can flow with that, then you can rap quickly, you’ve got the perfect voice anyway,” he is said to have said. It was a classic ‘come on, you can do it!’ situation. The beat was playing, the lyrics were improvised, and Alice – or Donna Savage, as she was later to be called – discovered something that sounded like fun. And for more. Her debut EP, ‘Parole Donna Savage’, is less of a loud ‘hello!’ than an ‘I’m here. And I’m staying’ to enrich German rap with a female perspective. She produced the whole thing with Brenk Sinatra – a name that already carries a certain weight in the scene. Three days in the studio, eating Brenk Sinatra – a name that already carries a certain weight in the scene. Three days in the studio, eating And I’m staying“ to enrich German rap with a female perspective. She produced the whole thing with Brenk Sinatra – a name that already carries a certain weight in the scene. Three days in the studio, food from Brenk’s wife, and a record that is well worth listening to. Donna Savage calls the sessions ‘rackin’ like animals”.

Learn more about Donna Savage in the ball magazine 2025