Meret Matter

Meret Matter (born April 27, 1965 in Bern ) is a Swiss theater director .

Life

Meret Matter is the daughter of the Bernese troubadour Mani Matter and the politician Joy Matter . She attended drama school in Bern and has worked as a director ever since. She has two children and lives in Bern and the south of France.

In 1989 she founded the theater group Club 111 together with Grazia Pergoletti and Ruth Schwegler , first in the "Tojo Theater", their own venue in the riding school in Bern , and from 2003 in the Schlachthaus Theater in Bern .

From 2000 she directed at the Lucerne Theater , the Schauspielhaus Zurich , the Schauspiel Hannover and the Theater Freiburg . In addition, she still works in the independent scene .

Productions

Club 111

• 1989–2000: Hysteria and Justine , internal workers , I always have a lot to do , Where its ends , the burden of gold , the rapid moon, etc. a.

Theatrical series

• 1992: Spaceboard Galuga , SF series in 5 parts, Gessnerallee Zurich
• 1993: Hobbycop , 3-part crime thriller, Gessnerallee Zurich, Kaserne Basel, invited to the IMPULSE Festival
• 1998: Calimbo , Piratenrevue, Tojo Reitschule Bern, piece texts: Matter / Pergoletti.

Further productions

• 2000: Frankenstein , Mary Shelly, Luzernertheater
• 2001: Romeo and Juliet in the village , Gottfried Keller, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Theater Vidy Lausanne, tour
• 2001: Jew from Malta , Christopher Marlowe, Lucerne Theater
• 2001: Anarchy in Bavaria , RW Fassbinder / Club 111, Schlachthaus Theater Bern, guest performance: Gessnerallee Zurich
• 2002: The good person from Sezuan , Bertolt Brecht, Schauspielhaus Zurich
• 2002: The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie , Luis Bunuel, Club 111 Schlachthaus Theater Bern. Guest performance: Schauspielhaus Zürich
• 2003: What happened after Nora left her husband , Elfriede Jelinek, luzernertheater
• 2003: Wilhelm Tell , Friedrich Schiller, Schauspielhaus Zurich
• 2003: No payment is made , Dario Fo, Club 111 Schlachthaus Theater Bern, guest performance: Schauspielhaus Zürich Schiffbau Box
• 2003: Knock out , Cirquen'flex / Tanz Kaserne Basel / Berner Tanztage
• 2004: Being a Wolf , Bettina Wegenast, Tournee Festival, Festival BLICKFELDER: Zurich, Basel, Lucerne
• 2004: Fackeln , Suzanne Zahnd, Drama Processor, Slaughterhouse Bern, Kaserne Basel, Theater Winkelwiese Zurich
• 2004: Saint Joan of the slaughterhouses , Bertolt Brecht, Hanover Theater
• 2005: Mobil , Sergi Belbel (German premiere), Schauspiel Hannover
• 2005: Steile Wand , Cirquen'flex / Tanz Rote Fabrik Zurich / Kaserne Basel, Roxy Basel, Dampfzentrale Bern, Harare Festival Zimbabwe
• 2005: Pippi Longstocking , Astrid Lindgren, Theater Freiburg
• 2005: Terrorism , Presnyakov Brothers ( Oleg and Wladimir ) Bern University of the Arts, Auawirleben Festival
• 2005: Orpheus in the Underworld according to Cocteau, A Film-TheaterProjekt Club 111, Schlachthaus Bern, invited by the Theater an der Winkelwiese Zurich
• 2006: Madame Bovary , Gustave Flaubert, Theater Freiburg
• 2006: Elsi, the strange maid , Jeremias Gotthelf, arrangement: S. Grob, Schlachthaus Theater Bern, Festival PERSPEKTIVEN EUROPA, Schauspielhaus Hamburg 2007
• 2007: Faith, Love, Hope , Ödön von Horváth, Hanover Theater
• 2007: Urban jungle , musical by Club 111, Matter / Pergoletti and Ensemble Festival BLICKFELDER: Zurich, Basel, Lucerne a. a.
• 2008: Midsummer Night's Dream , Shakespeare, Hanover Theater
• 2008: Mother and child are doing well , O. Chiacchiari, Primadrama Vorstadttheater Basel, Kleintheater Luzern, Tuchlaube Aarau
• 2008: Kaltes Herz , Wilhelm Hauff, Theater Freiburg
• 2008: Finanzblätz CH , live reporting from the heart of the crisis, Club 111, Schlachthaus Theater Bern
• 2009: Popeye , a theater comic based on Segar, Theater Freiburg
• 2009: Darlings alive , Club 111, Schlachthaus Theater Bern
• 2009/13: Popeye's godda Blues , Ein Theatercomic Club 111 Schlachthaus Bern, Baden, St. Gallen, Schaffhausen, Comic Festival Luzern, Theaterspektakel Zürich, Usine Toulouse (F), Festival Le Faget (F)
• 2010: The making of… the fall of the United States of America , Oliver Schmaering, Theaterhaus Jena
• 2010: Mapiland , Kolypan: Hadorn / Nanez, Theaterspektakel Zurich, tour
• 2010: The Unfinished , Sibylle Aeberli / Milena Moser, Swiss tour
• 2010: Sex in times of the apocalypse , Club 111, Schlachthaus Theater Bern
• 2010/12: Miss Monster , Superheroine / Action / Comic Roxy Theater Basel, Dampfzentrale Bern, Fabriktheater Zürich
• 2011: outskirts ride , a bus tour of Bern with Muslum at the festival, "Who owns the city," Battle Theater Bern
• 2011: Heart Criminal , Trois Suisses project, Swiss tour
• 2011: B-Movie , Schlachthaustheater Bern
• 2011: Popeye / Miss Monster , comic double feature, Dampfzentrale Bern
• 2011/12: Cüpliweg 10 , Suzanne Zahnd, A real estate drama in three parts / production by the smokers Zurich Plaza Zurich, Progr Bern, SUD Basel
• 2012: Fortunately , Club 111, A musical to save the world, Schlachthaustheater Bern
• 2013: Wagner meets Tell , Krneta / Haas, Seelisberg Festival
• 2013: Miis , world politics in the sandpit, Kolypan Theaterspektakel Zurich, Swiss tour
• 2013: The Odyssey for Children according to Homer, version Urweider / Matter Schauspielhaus Zürich
• 2013: We Heirs , A Swiss Saga, Gerhard Meister / Suzanne Zahnd Theater Chur / Schlachthaus Theater Bern / Theater Tuchlaube Aarau
• 2014: Süperimmigrant , solo show by Müslüm, Schlachthaus Theater Bern

Scholarships

• 1993: Contribution to the literature commission of the city of Bern
• 1995: Scholarship from the Canton of Bern in New York, duration: 6 months
• 2009: Off Stage Scholarship

music

Collaboration with various musicians - including Al Comet or the Dead Brothers - and with many musicians from the avant-garde jazz scene such as Fredi Flückiger, Christoph Gantert, Mick Hobbs, Shirley Anne Hoffman, Jean-Jaques Pedretti, Leonid Soybelmann; but also with Sibylle Aeberli, Mario Batkovic, Beat-Man, Resli Burri, Simon Dellsperger, Ted Gaier , Frank Gerber, Mich Gerber , King Pepe , Hans Platzgumer and Töbi Tobler .

• 2000: Schrott und Perlen , with Herwig Ursin and Thomas U. Hostettler
• 2002: Day of the Dead , Arteplage mobil du jura, Expo 02
• 2003: Princess (with Pierre Omer and Denis Schuler) on Ohrewürm 4
• 2009: Limbo (with Pierre Omer) on Ohrewürm 5
• 2014: The All-Power Pipe , Adolf Wölfli Music Theater

literature

• Esther Ackermann: Meret Matter . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1024.

Web links

• Meret Matter on the website of the Schauspielhaus Zürich