Julia Weber was born in 1983 in Moshi, Tanzania, and grew up in Zurich. After an apprenticeship as a photographer’s assistant, she studied literary writing at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel. In 2012, she founded the Literaturdienst [tr: Literature Service]: an offer by the author to appear at events
Lika Nüssli was born in Flawil in 1973 and grew up in the town of Gossau, in the eastern Swiss canton of St. Gallen. She trained as a textile designer and then studied illustration at the Lucerne School of Art and Design. She has been working as a freelance artist
Sabine Rufener was born in Bern in 1972. She had a passion for drawing and writing from a young age. But she first studied art history and German language and literature in Basel. She lived in Berlin for a year in 1994, participated in theater, then gave up her studies
born in 1988 in Basel, studied visual arts and interdisciplinarity in Basel and Bern. She is the author of theater, performance, radio, and prose texts and is a lecturer at the Institute for Mediation of Art and Design at the Basel School of Art and Design. Her debut novel, »Die
Elisa Shua Dusapin was born in France in 1992 to a French father and a South Korean mother and grew up in Paris, Seoul, and Porrentruy, a town in the Swiss canton of Jura. She studied at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel and presented her debut novel, »Hiver à
born in Lausanne in 1928, was a sculptor, ceramicist, set designer and author. Between 1966 and 1989 she worked several times as a set designer and costume designer for the director Ingmar Bergman. She published a book jointly with Peter Weiss, with whom she lived and worked from 1952 until
born in Berlin in 1970, studied comparative literature, German literature, and philosophy in Berlin, Saint-Étienne, and Berkeley. He is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Bern and is an internationally renowned scholar of Alexander von Humboldt. Together with Thomas Nehrlich, he directs the editorial team of
born in Swiss Niederbipp, she is a painter and photographer. She studied at the Zurich College of Art and Design and has worked in Dresden since 1991. Her artwork has recently been shown at the Dresden Kupferstichkabinett and, in connection with a residence grant, at the Leipzig Baumwollspinnerei. She is
Zora del Buono was born in Zurich in 1962. After studying architecture at the ETH Zurich and the Berlin University of the Arts, she spent several years working as an architect and site manager in Berlin. She published her debut novel »Canitz’ Verlangen« (tr: Canitz’ Desire) in 2008. The novel
was born to a Swiss father and Tibetan mother in Bern in 1980. After studying at drama school there, she appeared in various roles in the theatre and television before making her Hollywood début in 2005. She is very involved in the movement to free Tibet. In her first work,
Wolfram Höll was born in Leipzig in 1986, and studied at the Swiss Institute of Literature in Biel. He is currently working on his Master in Scenic Arts Practice at the Academy of the Arts in Berne. Höll produced theatre projects for the Schlachthaus Theater Bern and various drama festivals.
The playwright, theatre theoretician and painter Valère Novarina was born in Chêne-Bougeries near Geneva, Switzerland, in 1947. The son of the architect Maurice Novarina and the actress Manon Trolliet spent his childhood and youth in Thonon-les-Bains in the region of Haute-Savoie, before he moved to Paris to study Philosophy and
