Raphael Urweider and Sabrina Fischer (aka Brino)

Photo: Stefano de Marchi

Raphael Urweider (1974) is a poet, playwright and translator who also works as a director, rapper and musician. He has published four volumes of poetry to date: ‘Lichter in Menlo Park’, ‘Das Gegenteil von Fleisch’, ‘Alle deine Namen’, published with DuMont in Cologne, and – most recently – ‘Wildern’ with Hanser in Munich. He has written numerous plays together with Samuel Schwarz, Meret Matter and Matto Kämpf amongst others. Urweider has translated plays, volumes of poetry and opera libretti from English, French and Swiss German. He was the artistic co-director of the Schlachthaus Theatre in Bern from 2008 to 2010 and the president of the authors' association AdS from 2013 to 2016. His poetry has won him the Leonce and Lena Prize, the 3sat Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt and the Clemens Brentano Prize amongst others. Urweider has mentored at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel/Bienne, lectured at the Theatre Department and for the Master of Contemporary Arts Practice at the Bern University of the Arts HKB, and taught poetry at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

Photo: Nadia Fischer

Sabrina Fischer completed her basic commercial training in a social insurance company. In 2014, she played in ‘Leben, Lügen, Sterben’ (Theater Neumarkt Zurich, directed by Uta Plate). This experience prompted her to start studying theatre pedagogy at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in 2016. During her studies, she was part of artist collectives in various contexts and travelled as a performer and actress. Sabrina Fischer is currently writing her first theatre play, which deals with sexual violence against women. Gaps, the supposedly unspeakable and the words between the lines have fascinated her since childhood.