Stefan Kurt
Swiss actor. Worked with renowned stage directors such as Robert Wilson and Jürgen Flimm. Recently played the roles of Mackie Messer in Brecht’s “The Threepenny Opera” and “Captain Hook” in “Peter Pan” at the Berliner Ensemble.
Actors
Friederike Wagner
Film, television, and stage actress whose credits include roles long-running German television detective dramas “Tatort” and “Bella Block” and stage productions by Matthias Hartmann, Karin Henkel, Barbara Frey, Frank Castorf, Uwe Eric Laufenberg, Alexander Lang und Benno Besson. Since 2009, she has been a member of the Ensemble at the Schauspielhaus Zurich.
Presenters
Ursula Amrein
Professor of German at the University of Zurich
Wendy Arons
Professor of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Andreas Kilcher
Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich.
Jacques Picard
Professor Ordinarius for Jewish History and Modern Cultures at the University of Basel
Julian Schütt
Author and literary critic. Former chief cultural critic of the Swiss magazine Weltwoche and biographer of Max Frisch.
Werner Wüthrich
Author, dramatist, Brecht researcher