Kathrin Walde and Richard Henschel
Photo: Joel Sames
Kathrin Walde *1980, lives in Basel. After training as a special needs teacher, she worked at the Ramba Zamba theatre in Berlin in the 2007/08 season as an assistant director/guest performance coordinator. After various production assistantships, she completed the CAS Cultural Management program at Stapferhaus Lenzburg in 2014. Since then, she has worked as a freelance production manager in the performing arts, including with Ute Sengebusch, Lea Whitcher and Daniela Ruocco. Together with Maxine Devaud, she conceived the KulturHub project, which has been offering free advice for cultural professionals at ROXY Birsfelden since 2019. Since 2021, she has been leading the "Project Management for Cultural Professionals" course at Kulturmarkt Zürich.
Photo: Hitzigraphy
Richard Henschel was born in Brandenburg/Havel in 1978. He completed his acting training at the École internationale de Théâtre Lassaad - Bruxelles in 2003. Since then he has worked as a freelance actor at the: Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Zimmertheater Tübingen, Gostner Hoftheater Nuremberg, Neues Theater Halle, Kaserne Basel He has frequently worked in the border area of dance/music/performance with, among others: AKHE (St.Petersburg), Jerôme Bel, Aernout Mik, Rikrit Tiravanija, CAMERATA BERN. 2007-2018 he was a permanent ensemble member of the international touring theatre Ton&Kirschen, creating 9 productions together and touring the world with them at festivals and on tour. In 2019, he also began working as a director and, in addition to Tartuffe (Molière) and Peer Gynt (Ibsen), staged the world premiere of "Unter falschen Brüdern" in Bern. He has been a lecturer in drama at the HF ZUB in Zurich since 2019.
Project
The founding of a new travelling theatre company.
A theatre that comes to people all over Switzerland and beyond and uses the decades of professional experience of its members to tell stories that write our times and our lives. A theatre that is just as much at home in the open-air marketplaces as it is in a theatre hall.
In German or French, English or Spanish.
The aim is to create the legal, logistical, financial and structural conditions for artistic work.
Framework conditions for a sustainable production philosophy, far removed from the short-lived production carousel of independent theatre makers.
Create fair working conditions for all those involved in the project - design a sustainable strategy that lasts longer than one production run.
