Lucien Haug and Band WAS DAS?
Photo: Uwe Heinrich
Lucien Haug, born in Basel in 1992 and raised in the Basel region, is an author, director and dramaturge. He studied at the Bern University of the Arts and primarily writes plays in German and Swiss German. He has worked for many years with the junges theatre basel, the Schauspielhaus Zürich and the Theater Basel. His plays are regularly performed in Switzerland and abroad. Lucien Haug also works as a literary mediator and tries to get people to read and write. When he is not searching for rare animals, singing or planning projects that are guaranteed never to be realized, Lucien Haug is the central defender of the literary national team and writing an unreadable novel.
Photo: Léon Bricola
WAS DAS? is a 7-men rap band from Basel, consisting of Léon Bricola (1994, art direction, photo, video, design), Lucien Bricola (1998, rap, vocals), Reyan Chabaan (1999, rap, vocals), Moritz von Felten (1997, rap, vocals), Raphael Fercher (1997, rap, vocals), Moritz Hess (1995, rap, vocals) and Oliver Schmidt (1995, producing, rap, vocals). The band has been around since 2015 and makes rap in Swiss German. In spring 2023, WAS DAS? won the m4music Award in the Lyrics and Beats category. In February 2024, they released their third studio album WAS STARS? followed by a tour in several Swiss cities.
Project
With our coaching, we want to work on writing and dealing with language. Lucien Haug studied literary writing at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel and works as an author and playwright. He writes mainly in Swiss German, just like us. We see our song lyrics as a central element of our artistic work, but we usually all work on them on our own. With the coaching we hope to find new approaches and new perspectives on language and lyric writing.
