Bern is everywhere

Gerhard Meister reading, next to him Pedro Lenz.

Bern is everywhere is a Swiss group of authors that was founded in 2003. It comprises 14 members from different Swiss language regions .

Name and appearances

The name Bern says it all ; In its manifesto, the group propagates the view that all languages in the world are equal:

«We equate written languages EVERYWHERE. There are no high and low languages (...) We demand the equality of all languages. We demand the promotion of EVERYWHERE at all levels. "

The group makes about thirty performances per year, with three readers and one musician taking part. The selection and composition of the texts is redefined for each appearance. The central characteristics of the group are orality and dialect . Bern is everywhere and is a key player in the Swiss spoken word movement.

The group of authors has released several audio CDs . It is organized as an association .

Members

Pedro Lenz, Laurence Boissier, Gerhard Meister and Adi Blum (2015)

Adi Blum (since 2003)
Guy Krneta (since 2003)
Pedro Lenz (since 2003)
Beat Sterchi (since 2003)
Gerhard Meister (since 2003)
Michael Stauffer (2004-2016)
Michael Pfeuti (since 2006)
Maru Rieben (since 2007)

Antoine Jaccoud
Noëlle Revaz (2008-2016)
Ariane von Graffenried (since 2009)
Arno Camenisch (until 2016)
Christian Brantschen (since 2010)
Laurence Boissier (since 2011)
Stefanie Grob (2004-2007)
Daniel de Roulet (2008-2011)

Awards

2006 Prize from the Bürgi Willert Foundation, received from Kurt Marti
2010 Special Prize from the Foundation for the Promotion of Bernese Dialect Dramatics
2011 Literature Prize of the Canton of Bern for overall work
2013 Gottfried Keller Prize
2015 Culture Prize of the Bernese Burgergemeinde

Publications

Manifest , (included with the audio CD Im Kairo )
In Cairo. Audio CD. Publishing house The healthy shipping of people. Lucerne 2006
Partout. Audio CD. Publishing house The healthy shipping of people. Lucerne 2008
Crazy animal. Audio CD. Publishing house The healthy shipping of people. Lucerne 2010
Verbarium. Audio CD. Publishing house The healthy shipping of people. Lucerne 2010
Ir Chuchi. Audio CD. Publishing house The healthy shipping of people. Lucerne 2013
Renens (VD). Audio CD. Publishing house The healthy shipping of people. Lucerne 2015

Individual evidence

↑ Award for the spoken word ensemble “Bern is everywhere”. srf.ch, June 23, 2015, accessed on July 6, 2015 .

Web links

Group website
Literature from and about Bern is everywhere in the catalog of the German National Library
culturactif (PDF)
Bern is everywhere on Youtube
Laudation Gottfried Keller Prize by Corina Caduff

[1] Award for the spoken word ensemble “Bern is everywhere”. srf.ch, June 23, 2015, accessed on July 6, 2015 .