Dr. Erica Applezweig was born and raised in New York City’s Greenwich Village. In the 1960s.

she was a coffee house folksinger / songwriter / poet / actress / comedienne and waitress to the stars.

Erica has been a practicing clinical psychologist for over 35 years, the last 25 here in Stuttgart. She has been a member of the Writers in Stuttgart since 2012, where she is working on a memoir about the folk music scene and growing up in Greenwich Village.

Also a musician, Erica plays guitar and sings regularly on her own and with NEAT’s Tolling Thunder Revue, and for the last three years she and guitarist Michael Hecht performed their show Folk and Blues Forever to sold-out audiences at Dreigroschentheater.