Mathieu Bertholet - Swiss Performing Arts Award 2021

Mathieu Bertholet was born in Valais in 1977 and moved to Berlin in 1997 to study creative writing for the stage at the city’s University of the Arts. Ten years later he returned to Switzerland. In 2001 he was in-house writer at the Comédie de Genève, and from 2006 to 2009 he performed the same role at the Théâtre du Grütli in Geneva, occasionally also appearing as a dancer in works by Cindy van Acker and Foofwa d’Imobilité. In 2007 he founded the group MuFuThe (an abbreviation of multifunctional theatre), with which he produces his own works. He writes in French and German and also translates theatrical pieces. For Nicolas Stemann’s “Nathan !?” he created French versions of Lessing’s “Nathan der Weise” and two German texts by Elfriede Jelinek. He has been artistic director of the Théâtre du Poche in Geneva since 2015. There, he continues to work as an author, translator and director for experimental formats, building bridges between German- and French-speaking Switzerland.
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