Gabi Bernetta and Mario Fuchs
Photo: Tine Edel
Gabi Bernetta was born in Chur in 1962 and has lived and worked in Zurich since 1985. She founded Bernetta Theatre Productions in 1995 and works as a theatre producer and production manager for independent ensembles and directors including Thom Luz, Theater Konstellationen/Jonas Knecht, TRIAD Theatercompany Zurich, Freies Musiktheater Zurich, Trainingslager/Antje Thoms, Ruedi Häusermann and many more. For over 20 years, she has accompanied theatre makers on their journey from the initial ideas to the realization of their projects. She is a networker and has the will to shape cultural policy. It is very important to her to create ideal conditions for artistic work and she is always in favour of fair wages and good working conditions. Among other things, she is the initiator and director of the new theatre festival "jungspund" for young audiences in St. Gallen. She was awarded the Swiss Theatre Prize in 2018 for her commitment to independent theatre. After training as a media consultant, she completed the "Cultural Management" degree program at the ZHW Winterthur and graduated with an MAS in 2004. In addition to her work in the independent theatre scene, she has also repeatedly worked at theatres.
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Mario Fuchs, born in Bern in 1985 and raised in Solothurn, studied German and history at the University of Basel and acting at the Zurich University of the Arts. From 2012 to 2014 he was engaged at Schauspiel Frankfurt. From 2015 to 2020, he was a permanent member of the acting ensemble at Theater Basel. In Basel, he conceived and realised the Robert Walser evening "Eine Lust war in mir umzufallen" (2018) and most recently the marathon reading "Kosmos" (2019) for Culturescapes. He lives and works as a freelancer in Basel and Zurich.
Project
The project "Your Knowledge Is My Disaster" is a performative-musical piece development about the fatal dynamics of half-knowledge, which explores the question of how pleasurable storytelling is connected to conspiracy theories, loneliness and the desire for communication. At the centre is the question: What do I have to tell in order to be someone?
Mario Fuchs performs as an actor in major theatres at home and abroad. In recent years, he has already realized smaller works of his own. Coaching as part of "Double" now lays the foundations for well-founded work on a larger project. The focus is on organizational issues relating to conception, financing, preparation and implementation.
