Kathrin Hauser
Before dedicating herself fully to professional guitar making, Kathrin Hauser first trained in a commercial profession. After gaining several years of experience in that field, she began an apprenticeship in the family business, the Hermann Hauser workshop in Reisbach, Lower Bavaria. She passed the examination in the field of instrument making in 2007.
With her first self-built guitar she was invited to a special exhibition in Tokyo. The renowned Japanese magazine Gendai Guitar published a detailed article about her on this occasion. Since 2008, guitars made by Kathrin Hauser have been ordered by musicians around the world.
In addition to creating her own independently developed models, traditional Hermann Hauser guitars are also built in collaboration with her father, Hermann Hauser III. Together they also work on further developments of the Hauser guitar.
The Fifth Generation
Kathrin Hauser (born 1982) represents the fifth generation of the Hauser guitar-making dynasty of Reisbach, Bavaria. She completed her lutherie apprenticeship in 2007, studying alongside her father Hermann Hauser III, and has since built instruments under her own name within the family workshop. The Hauser dynasty was founded in the nineteenth century and achieved legendary status when Hermann Hauser I built the 1937 guitar that Andrés Segovia described as "the greatest guitar of our epoch" — now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Kathrin continues this legacy with the same commitment to limited annual production and personal attention that has defined the workshop for over a century.
