Elia Rediger

FOUNDING MEMBER

Elia Rediger, born 1985 in Kinshasa (DRC), is a Swiss artist, artistic director, composer, writer and singer. In addition to orchestral compositions (Oh Albert, 2016, Basel), he was an in-house writer at the Konzert Theater Bern (2016/2017), frontman of the pop group The Bianca Story and the big band orchestra Brigade Futur 3. At Deutsche Oper Berlin he directs the music theater format Macht der Künste / Aus dem Hinterhalt. Hercules of Lubumbashi – Ein Minenoratorium was his second collaboration with the Congolese choreographer Dorine Mokha after the play Oh Boyoma – 387 verses about a forgotten city (Konzert Theater Bern 2017). In 2020, Mokha and Rediger founded GROUP50:50 together with the Congolese curator Patrick Mudekereza and the Swiss dramaturge Eva-Maria Bertschy. After Dorine Mokha's sudden death in 2021, they decided to continue GROUP50:50's mission and joined forces with Christiana Tabaro and Michael Disanka for a new production.