Nicole Knuth and Sara Francesca Hermann
Photo: Bernard Fuchs
Nicole Knuth is a freelance actress, director and theatre inventor. She trained as an actor in Zurich. She has been performing as part of the Knuth and Tucek duo since 2007. Together with Olga Tucek, Nicole Knuth has received several awards: the Salzburger Stier, the Swiss cabaret prize Cornichon, the German cabaret prize and the Swiss cabaret prize. She currently works as a speaker in Die Satire Fraktion (SRF1) and as an actress in a Peter Bichsel evening. (Theater Ariane, directed by Jordi Vilardaga) From autumn 2020, Nicole Knuth will be on tour with her new own production together with Roman Wyss: Schön ist auf der Welt zu sein! (A hit in the face) Directed by Silvana Gargiulo.
Photo: Tom Zünd
Sara Francesca Hermann was born in Samedan in 1985 and grew up trilingual in Romansh, German and Italian. She completed a 3-year training course at the Comart School for Movement Theatre in Zurich from 2007-2010. In 2009/2010 she won the Migros Culture Percentage's sponsorship prize for physical theatre. In 2018, she received the Cultural Promotion Prize of the Canton of Graubünden. Since 2010, she has worked as a freelance theatre maker in various productions and as a course instructor for the Young Theatre Graubünden. Sara is co-founder of the street theatre company Paula fliegt. She has been a member of the Mummenschanz company since May 2015. She is the mother of a daughter.
Project
"I'm a ridiculous person. Now they even call me crazy. That would be an exaltation of rank if I didn't remain just as ridiculous to people as before - (...)." This is how Dostoyevsky's novella The Dream of a Ridiculous Man begins. The protagonist has succumbed to absolute nihilism. His existence is repugnant to him. In delirium, he uses his imagination to develop a spiral of thoughts that winds its way into paradise. My project is to appropriate this narrative. To speak the text, to shape it, to wrestle with it and to bring it to the stage in the form of raw narrative theatre - preferably in pubs, squares and under balconies. As I have been doing non-verbal theatre for 6 years, I will end up working with the German language and its effect on stage. Nicole Knuth will help me with this.
