Katzen
Encyclopedia
Katzen the Tiger Lady is the stage name
of a bodily modified
female performance art
ist and tattoo artist
, whose full body tattoo
theme is that of a tiger. (Katzen is the German
word for cats.)
She received extensive tattooing on all parts of her body and wears tiger whiskers attached via piercings on her face. She was at one time married to a male performer named "The Enigma", with whom she collaborated in a musical show team called "The Human Marvels", and with whom she bore one daughter, Caitlin, who resides with Katzen's parents. After a divorce from the Enigma, Katzen went to live with her fiancé and their newborn son, Felix and to work at a tattoo shop in Austin, Texas
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Stage name
A stage name, also called a showbiz name or screen name, is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers such as actors, wrestlers, comedians, and musicians.-Motivation to use a stage name:...
of a bodily modified
Body modification
Body modification is the deliberate altering of the human body for any non-medical reason, such as aesthetics, sexual enhancement, a rite of passage, religious reasons, to display group membership or affiliation, to create body art, shock value, or self expression...
female performance art
Performance art
In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...
ist and tattoo artist
Tattoo artist
A tattoo artist is an individual who applies permanent decorative tattoos, often in an established business called a tattoo shop, tattoo studio or tattoo parlour...
, whose full body tattoo
Full body tattoo
A body suit or full body suit is an extensive tattoo, usually of a similar pattern, style or theme that covers the entire torso or the entire body....
theme is that of a tiger. (Katzen is the German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
word for cats.)
She received extensive tattooing on all parts of her body and wears tiger whiskers attached via piercings on her face. She was at one time married to a male performer named "The Enigma", with whom she collaborated in a musical show team called "The Human Marvels", and with whom she bore one daughter, Caitlin, who resides with Katzen's parents. After a divorce from the Enigma, Katzen went to live with her fiancé and their newborn son, Felix and to work at a tattoo shop in Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
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