Fact Sheet The opening festivities: also an artistic

Fact Sheet
Date: May 10, 2016
The opening festivities: also an artistic
dramatisation
Around 600 performers under the Artistic Direction of Volker Hesse also from part of the Gottardo
2016 opening festivities of June 1, 2016. The dramatisation takes place at both ends of the Gotthard
Base Tunnel. It spotlights the Gotthard legend as passed down through the centuries, and the new,
with the high-tech record tunnel, which brings the north and the south closer together.
In view of the context of an international event with several sites in the open air as well as indoors,
Volker Hesse does not use spoken language but powerful images, bodily processes, music and dance
theatre, and generally physical forms of expression.
Worldwide international professionals meet regional amateur performers
Participating in the dramatisation are international ground and aerial artists, various professional
musicians, alphorn players and the Swiss Army Band, as well as movement groups, choirs and
musical ensembles from the Gotthard region. Professionals from Switzerland, Chile, Spain, France
and Germany work together with amateurs from the population of the region. For the Gotthard
Opening project there is also close collaboration with the Accademia Teatro Dimitri in Verscio (Ticino).
Volker Hesse is a German director who has for many years regularly dramatised in Switzerland and is
already connected with the Gotthard region. For example, Hesse already directed the Tell Spiele in
Altdorf (2008 and 2012) as well as the traditional World Theatre in Einsiedeln (2000 and 2007).
Central career milestones were his artistic directorship at the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich and his
management of the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. Volker Hesse has repeatedly dramatised in various
Swiss cities as well as in Germany, for example Cologne, Düsseldorf and Munich.
The project is actively assisted by the Accademia Teatro Dimitri in Verscio as well as the University of
Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI).
For questions:
Verein Portalkunst 57
Claudia Capecchi
Phone +41 79 231 44 20
claudia@capecchi.ch
A selection of participating artists: Volker Hesse (Winner of the Hans Reinhard Ring 2010,
Director/Artistic Director) and Rolf Derrer (Winner of the Hans Reinhard Ring 1995, Producer),
Stephan Mannteuffel, Scenic and Costume Design (www.stephanmannteuffel.de), Andrea Herdeg,
Choreography North (www.herdegdesponds.ch), Laia Sanmartin, Choreography South
(www.laiasanmartin.com), Paula Riquelme, Choreography Aerial Artists North and South, Georg
Lendorff, Video Artist North (www.georglendorff.com), François Chalet, Video Artist South
(www.francoischalet.ch), Knut Jensen, Musical Director (www.knutjensen-sounddesign.com),
Jürg Kienberger, Musician and Vocalist (www.juergkienberger.ch), P. C. Zumthor, Music and
Percussion (www.kappelerzumthor.ch).
Further participants will include around 15 Chilean aerial artists as well as more than 30 international
ground artists and around 25 current students of the Accademia Teatro Dimitri.
Organisation: Claudia Capecchi Produktionsleitung, Rita Kälin-Kälin Regieassistenz Nord, Susanna Plata Regieassistenz Süd,
Ellen Geiser Produktionsassistenz, Leo Brügger Chef Inspizient Nord, Giuditta Lombardi Chef Inspizient Süd
Extended artistic team: Francesco Bossaglia Mitarbeit Musik Süd, Aaron Tschalèr Chorleiter Nord, Nuria Prazak Mitarbeit
Choreographie Nord, Sarah Lerch Mitarbeit Choreographie Süd, Anne-Rose Schwab Masken und Figuren, Regina Staiger
Bettina Steiner und Rita Bieri Gewandmeisterinnen, Frank Wünsche, Assistenz Räume und Kostüme, Siri Thalmann, Assistenz
Gewandmeisterinnen, Burkart und Pfaffen Dekorationsbau GmbH, Mitarbeit Lehrer der Accademia Teatro Dimitri: Alexey
Ivanov, Oliviero Giovannoni
Technical team: Thomas Prahl Technische Leitung, Andreas Seiler Technische Leitung, Martin Hübscher Bauten, Thomas
Strebel und Laurenz Zschokke Tondesign, Stephan Kobi Lichtdesign, Pieter van Berkel Kinetik, Winkler Multi Media Events AG
Technische Installationen, Nüssli (Schweiz) AG Bühnen- und Tribünenkonstruktionen
Participants: Chor Goccia di Voci Leitung Oskar Boldre, Associazione Corno delle Alpi Leitung Marco Fässler,
Percussionsformation Nord Leitung Christoph Gautschi, Formation Militärmusik Nord Leitung Maj Philippe Monnerat, Formation
Militärmusik Süd Leitung Oblt Roger Hasler
Participants from the region of Uri: Manuela Auf der Maur, Noemi Auf der Maur, Hans-Tony Imhof , Maria Acar, Rolf Albertin, Giuseppe Albertini, Zita
Albrecht Huber, Karl Arnold, Michael Arnold, Celine Arnold, Ramona Arnold , Emanuela Arnold-Waser, Valentina Arquint, Julia Aschwanden , Vanessa
Aschwanden , Hans Aschwanden , Ursi Aschwanden , Heinz Bachmann , Helen Bachmann , Joice Regina Barros da Fonte, Theres Baumann, Erich
Baumann, Josef Baumann, Markus Baumgartner, Daniel Beltrametti, Edi Betschart, Paul Betschart, Stephanie Betschart, Simona Betschart, Madeleine
Biaggi, Frieda Biedermann, Max Bissig, Thomas Bissig, Trudy Bissig, Justin Blunschi, Sonja Bolfing, Helena Bolliger, Stefan Büeler, Anina Bürgi, Trudy Bürgi,
Léonie Camenzind, Jana Olivia Caveng, Laura Colombo, Hanna Dettling , Evelyne Dietrlich, Anna Dörig, Marianne Eggimann, Bruno Eller, Herbert Enz,
Roland Ernst , Ingrid Fässler, Manuela Fedier, Vreni Fedier, Brigitte Flury-Leu, Michaela Föhn, Jakob Fröhlich, Ramona Furrer, Sophie Furrer, Karl Furrer,
Franz Furrer , Arnold Furrer , Alysha Fussen, Larissa Gaggiotti, Dominique Gassmann, Romy Gisler, Thomas Gisler, Stefanie Gisler, Elisabeth Gisler-Kälin,
Renate Gisler-Obernhumer, Yvonne Gisler-Tschopp, Simone Gnos, Timothé Gogniat, Carla Grab, Lauryn Gursky, Franz Gut, Martha Herger, Martha Herger Büeler, Deborah Herzog, Walter Hofstetter, Anton Huber, Paul Huber, Willi Huber, Silvia Huber , Esther Hunkeler Hirtler, Nico Hunziker, Barbara Imhof, Aaron
Imlig, Ruedi Indergand, Vanessa Infanger, Pius Inglin, Antonella Jauch, Justus Kälin, Melissa Kälin, Anna Kälin, Heinrich Kälin, Franziska Keller, Max Keller,
Luzia Kempf, Alexandra Kessler , Helmut Krauss, Rianna Krieg, Carola Krienbühl, Michelle Kron, Ursula Krupski, Amy Küng, Thomas Küttel, Andrea
Laternser, Manfred Leiprecht, Carola Maibach, Nina Manzoni, Andrea Marxen, Henning Marxen, Nicole Massa, Julie Maurer, Jeannette Megert, Erich
Megert, Yara Meister, Ivana Maria Menegardo, Trix Meyer, Alessia Mognol , Manuela Müller, Hans Peter Müller, Claudia Müller, Gregor Müller, Moritz Nager ,
Manuela Naumann, Tizian Nideröst, Noa Nigg, Bruno Pagani , Shana Philipp, Giuseppe Pizzol, Stefan Planzer, Silvia Planzer , Marlis Poloni, Regula Rettig,
Christa Riedi, Lea Roffler , Enrique Romano, Daniela Russi-Zopp, Regina Rüttimann, Erica Ryter-Kieliger, Daniela Sandbichler-Calcagni, Rosanna Sargenti,
Arndt Schafter, Gabriela Schenk, Marlis Schönbächler, Angela Schuh, Beat Schuler, Georg Schuler, Anna Schuler, Ramona Schuler, Gabriela Schuler, Lena
Schuler , Urs Schürch, Erich Schweizer, Paul Seeholzer, Jeannine Seger , Geraldine Seger , Sabrina Sieber , Daniel Spiess, Patrick Spiess, Susanne
Spiess-Bomatter, Karin Stadler, Lisa Stadler, Ruth Stadler, Paula Stampfli, Markus Staub, Marcel Steinauer, Beat Stocker, Aleksandar Stojanovic, Valentina
Strüby, Bruno Suhner, Margrit Tresch-Moser, Nadja Trinkler, Sina Trütsch, Andrea Truttmann, Jakob Truttmann, Brigitte Vetter, Mara Vogel, Nadine von Euw,
Fabian von Mentlen, Philipp Walker, Céline Walker, Josef Walker, Ursula Walker, Flavia Walker, Nicole Wehrli, Franz Willi, Jacqueline Wipfli, Sarah Wipfli,
Margret Wipfli - Gamma, Barbara Wittwer Gehlhaar, Ursula Wittwer Gehlhaar, Flavio Wyrsch, Magnus z`Rotz, Tino Zberg, Caroline Zberg, Rebecca
Zehnder, Luigi Zezzi, Melinda Zgraggen, Sarina Zgraggen, Aaron E. Zgraggen, Noëmi Zgraggen, Peter Ziegler, Gina Zopp, Soraya Zwyer