Katja Zellweger/Dennis Schwabenland and Marcel Meury

Photo: Rob Lewis / Sandro Fiechter

Katja Zellweger (she/her), freelance cultural journalist, e.g. in the film sector since the Critics Academy at the Locarno Film Festival 2018 (Film Explorer, Film Bulletin, Cinema Yearbook and Indiewire), Critics Jury of the 22nd Black Movie Film Festival 2021. Since 2019 Head of Communications at Reso - Dance Network Switzerland. Previously deputy editorial director of the Berner Kulturagenda and worked in production, mediation and dramaturgy at the Schlachthaus Theatre. In the CAS Cultural Journalism at the ZHdK, she created a theatre play based on autobiographical research. Dennis Schwabenland (he/him), freelance director & actor, e.g. mockumentary ‘the holycoaster s(HIT) circus’, winner of the Berner Filmpreis 2016, co-director of the theatre group PENG! Palast theatre group. Various theatre productions with documentary material, including ‘Gilgamesh Origin’ in collaboration with the Al Kasaba Theatre, Ramallah Palestine, ‘FIGHT! Palast #membersonly’ based on the novel Fight Club and “Mülheim Absturz Ruhr” a documentary theatre solo about the social crash of his family. In 2024 he was politics and culture editor at Radio RaBe. Schwabenland is currently working on a documentary film about his home town of Landiswil in Emmental.

Photo: Marcel Meury

Marcel Meury (* 1975, he/him) pursues a transdisciplinary artistic practice that is anchored in a socio-economic interest. He grew up in precarious circumstances in the Zurich agglomeration and now lives in Basel and Zurich as an artist, co-researcher and father of a child (born 2013). In his artistic practice (Social Practice), he deals with questions of contemporary living conditions. His experience and his own biography, in which he lives, works and shares, play an integral role. The focus will be on art and class, social justice and transgenerational transmission. The aim is to transform biographical experience and personal life worlds into collective knowledge in order to initiate social change, thus contributing to strengthening diversity and democracy.