Julia Haenni

Julia Haenni is an independent writer, performer and director working in Switzerland and Germany. She studied drama in the Performing Arts University in Zurich and also studied theatre and German literature in Bern and Berlin. Her work has been presented in Munich’s Schauburg, Vienna’s Kosmos Theatre, Theater Heidelberg, Theater Konstanz, and in many theatres in Switzerland like the Schlachthaus and Konzert Theater in Bern, Zurich’s Winkelwiese, Theater Chur, Basel’s Roxy, Aarau’s Bühnen or Geneva’s Théâtre de Poche. In France, her work was shown in Festivals like Mousson d’été, Ubergang or the Journées du Matrimoine. In 2021, she published Ich will alles! in collaboration with photographer Mali Lazell, which documents the 2019 feminist strike in Switzerland through text and images. The book was nominated for the German photography book prize. From 2020 to 2022, she directed la Junge Marie with Barbara Heynen, where she worked and created theatre pieces with young people. In 2021, she was awarded the Welti Foundation prize as well as the city of Bern Prize for her theatre work.