Eva-Maria Bertschy

FOUNDING MEMBER

Eva-Maria Bertschy works as a freelance dramaturge, director and playwright. Since 2012, she has conceived and realized international theatre and documentary film projects with Swiss director Milo Rau and the IIPM. At the same time, she has worked regularly with the director Ersan Mondtag from Berlin. In 2021, she founded GROUP50:50 with Swiss musician Elia Rediger, Congolese choreographer Dorine Mokha and curator Patrick Mudekereza. With this Congolese-Swiss collective, she developed a multi-layered political project comprising the two music theatre pieces The Ghosts Are Returning and Ecosystem and the discourse series The Time For Denial Is Over. In 2019, she moved to Palermo and co-founded Fondazione Studio Rizoma, a production structure for transnational political and artistic projects based in Palermo. Together with the Rizoma team, she co-curated three editions of the Between Land and Sea festival, which takes place in Palermo and the port cities of Tunis and Bremen since 2021. In 2024, she realized her first solo piece, Fremde Seelen / Âmes étrangères, with which she returned to Switzerland.