Beatrice Fleischlin and Gustavo Nanez

Photo: Fleischlin

Beatrice Fleischlin grew up in a family of sheep and pig farmers in Sempach. Attempted careers as a farmer, florist, photo lab employee and charcuterie saleswoman. Graduated from the Zurich Drama Academy (now ZHdK) in 2000 and founded the collective GASTSTUBE with Nicolas Galeazzi and Andreas Liebmann. Collaborative work at the interface of installation, performance and interaction. After the collective disbanded in 2007, Fleischlin performed in works by Thom Luz, Boris Nikitin, Gesine Danckwart and others, attended the "dance intensiv" training program (2008-2009) at Tanzfabrik Berlin and was a participant in the "Stück Labor Basel" (2009 and 2011/12). Since then, she has developed her own projects, mostly in collaboration with other artists, and has worked as a supportive force with colleagues (including the helium x collective, Antje Schupp, Nina Langensand, I-fen Lin and Monika Truong). Galeazzi, Liebmann and Fleischlin resumed GASTSTUBE° in 2019. Together with Anja Meser, she was honoured with a Swiss performing arts award from the BAK in 2021.

Photo: Angela Sanders

Gustavo Nanez was born in Lima in 1963, trained as an aircraft mechanic and studied classical guitar at the Escuela de Musica, Johann Sebastian Bach in Lima. He later studied acting at the Universidad Catholica Peru. He has lived in Zurich since 1991 and works in the independent theatre scene as an actor, musician and stage designer for Mandarina & Co, Matterhorn Productions, Lorenz Nufer and Kaspar Weiss, among others. As a songwriter, Nanez has produced two solo albums, was honored by Pro Helvetia in 2006 as part of swixx and regularly tours with Roger Greipl as the duo "Man fatal". In 2000, he founded the theatre group Kolypan with Fabienne Hadorn and since then has regularly produced his own theatre plays for children and young people, such as "The Vladimir Show", "Miiis! Weltpolitik im Sandkasten" and "Toto, Laura & die Stadtmusikant:innen - Eine Roadshow über Freundschaft & Mut".