Feeding station for feeding a flat item individually or singularized from a stack into a downstream item processing appliance, having a pre-singularization area, a singularization area and a transport area, the transport area being arranged in transport direction after the singularization area on a transport path, wherein the feeding station comprises motors with appertaining encoders, further mechanical drive elements, sensors, as well as a control unit and wherein the control unit (2.4) is connected on its input side with a number of sensors (S1, S2, S3) and encoders (EN1, EN2), wherein the singularization area is of a multi-stage design, a first sensor is arranged at the start of the singularization area and detects a stack placed on the feeding station in the pre-singularization area or a single flat item placed there, a second sensor is arranged at the start of the transport area, and the control unit (2.4) is connected on its output side with a singularization motor for driving the singularization unit, characterized in - that the singularization area is arranged in a section of the transport path between a first singularization roller and a second singularization roller of a singularization unit opposite the feeding deck; - that the control unit comprises a processor (2.41), a signal processing means (2.44) for the signals of the sensors and of the encoders (EN1, EN2) as well as a determination means (2.45) for determining the position of the flat item; - that the processor (2.41) is programmed by an application program stored in a program memory (2.42) of the control unit (2.4) for controlling at least the singularization motor of the feeding station in such a manner that a flat item from the stack is singularized at a pre-defined singularization speed, wherein the singularization process is stopped in case of a too small gap between the flat items as soon as the front edge of a following flat item reaches the region of the second sensor and is continued when the preceding singularized flat item, due to its transport, reaches a pre-defined distance from the front edge of the above-mentioned flat item, the singularization speed being automatically defined as a discrete nominal value for a digital speed control depending on the automatically measured length of a preceding singularized flat item. - that the singularization area is arranged in a section of the transport path between a first singularization roller and a second singularization roller of a singularization unit opposite the feeding deck; - that the control unit comprises a processor (2.41), a signal processing means (2.44) for the signals of the sensors and of the encoders (EN1, EN2) as well as a determination means (2.45) for determining the position of the flat item; - that the processor (2.41) is programmed by an application program stored in a program memory (2.42) of the control unit (2.4) for controlling at least the singularization motor of the feeding station in such a manner that a flat item from the stack is singularized at a pre-defined singularization speed, wherein the singularization process is stopped in case of a too small gap between the flat items as soon as the front edge of a following flat item reaches the region of the second sensor and is continued when the preceding singularized flat item, due to its transport, reaches a pre-defined distance from the front edge of the above-mentioned flat item, the singularization speed being automatically defined as a discrete nominal value for a digital speed control depending on the automatically measured length of a preceding singularized flat item.