Livia Anne Richard

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Livia Anne Richard (born February 24, 1969 in Bern ) is a Swiss theater director and author .

Life

Richard has been a director and writer of theater productions since the 1990s.

In 2002, she founded the Gurten Theater on Bern's local mountain of the same name, Gurten, and has since been the director of all productions that take place there. The play Dällebach Kari , written by Richard, was premiered there in 2006 and became such a great success that it was reissued on an unscheduled basis the following year. The piece served as the basis for the 2012 film Eine wen iig, dr Dällebach Kari by Oscar winner Xavier Koller .

In 2010 Richard and Markus Maria Enggist , Annemarie Morgenegg, Fredi Stettler and Hank Shizzoe opened the Matte Theater , which specializes in dialect pieces in Bern , where she was artistic director until mid-2016.

In 2014, Richard was named the most influential cultural worker in Bern by the newspaper Bernerbär . In June 2018 she received the 2018 Culture Prize of the Bürgi-Willert-Foundation from Bern, endowed with 50,000 francs. On May 2, 2019, she received the Bern Communication Prize of the Bern Public Relations Society (BPRG).

Works

  • 1999: Star Dance - World premiere : 1999
  • 2006: Dällebach Kari - world premiere: 2006, open-air theater Gurten , Bern
  • 2010: Einstein - World premiere: July 27, 2010, Gurten Open-Air Theater, Bern
  • 2014: Paradise - World premiere: June 28, 2014, Gurten Open-Air Theater, Bern
  • 2015: The Matterhorn Story - World premiere: July 9, 2015, Zermatt Open Air Theater
  • 2017: Romeo and Juliet on Gornergrat - World premiere: July 6, 2017, Zermatt open-air theater
  • 2018: DEPARTURE! - Stress-free in 5 days - World premiere: June 20, 2018, Gurten open-air theater, Bern
  • 2019: MATTERHORN: NO LADIES PLEASE! - World premiere: July 11, 2019, Zermatt open-air theater
  • 2020: "AGE! - EXPERIMENT GENERATION HOUSE ..." - World premiere June 24, 2020, Gurten Open-Air Theater, Bern
  • 2020: Novel: Anna der Indianer, published by Cosmos Verlag, Muri, book launch March 30, 2020, Stauffacher bookstore, Bern

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gurten open-air theater. At: myswitzerland.com. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
  2. ↑ A little, dr Dällebach Kari. At: outnow.ch. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
  3. ↑ Livia Anne Richard resigns as artistic director of the Theater Matte in the Berner Zeitung , March 11, 2016, accessed on May 5, 2016.
  4. ↑ Livia Anne Richard: "I am the Livia with the many hats". At: Coopzeitung .ch. June 8, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Imperative" - Culture Prize of the Bürgi-Willert Foundation awarded , nachtkritik.de of 14 June 2018 accessed June 18, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Richard, Livia Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theater director and author as well as private theater entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern