Katja Brunner

La main est un chasseur solitaire

Lecture
In the frame of Grand Angle la Biennale de la traduction théâtrale

20 July / 15h00

“Rencontres d’été de la Chartreuse will be held July 19 to July 23; this cycle of readings and performances will take you through a selection of new international pieces. You will meet authors and translators, and get a sense of where current discussions are heading in European, African and Caribbean contemporary productions. We have selected eight authors and pieces that were either created or translated in 2023. This cycle will be a great opportunity for people who are passionate about hearing new narratives and new voices, to open their perspectives on the world and its various theatre forms”.

La main est un chasseur solitaire, translated by Charles Morillon, will be read by the GRAL, the Chartreuse group of actors-readers, directed by Maya Bösch.

Nigerian authors Dipo Baruwa-Etti and Soji Cole will attend the event and a selection of their work will be read, along with Flemish author Peer Wittenbols, Swiss authors Katia Brunner and Julia Haenni, Haitian authors Jean d’Amérique and Andrise Pierre, and British author Tim Crouch.

biography

Katja Brunner studied creative writing in the Bienne Literary Institute, as well as dramatic writing in Berlin’s University of the Arts. In 2010, she wrote Trop courte des jambes, her first play which won an award for best dramatic play in Mühlheim in 2013; that same year, she was voted young author of the year by Theater heute Magazine. Her plays were performed in Zurich’s Schauspielhaus, Cologne’s Schauspiel, Leipzig’s Schauspiel, Sankt Gallen Theatre or Berlin’s Volksbühne. Brunner was a guest professor in the Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig for the 2020/21 season and she teaches in the Bienne Literary Institute. She is part of the dramatic writers collective Institut für chauvinistische Weiterbildung, and she regularly writes essays for newspapers while performing in many festivals with musician Sophie Aeberli, with whom she forms the Loretta Shapiro duet. In the spring of 2022, two of her plays with her signature feminist style will debut in Schauspiel Leipzig (Die Kunst der Wunde) and Schauspiel Köln (a rewriting of Shakespeare’s Richard III).

Maya Bösch is an artist, director, independent curator and artistic director of sturmfrei Company. She studied drama in Bryn Mawr (Philadelphia), with a focus on political theatre. Her work is critically-informed and her research allows her to anticipate new dramatic forms, as well as new aesthetics. She directed the GRÜ/Transthéâtre in Geneva with Michèle Pralong from 2006 to 2012; in 2011 and 2014 she curated the Performance Art Festival in Geneva (« Jeter son corps dans la bataille ») and co-curated the « BONE 17 » Performance-Festival in Bern. In 2015, Maya was awarded the Swiss Theatre Prize. In 2022, she was awarded the Swiss performing arts prize (Prix Suisse des Arts de la Scène) for her piece Manuel d’exil, with a text by Velibor Čolić and Jean-Quentin Châtelain.