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#Entscheide dich!

A music theater project by and for young people on themes from Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale Die kleine Meerjungfrau

Director Andreas Sauter Choreography Simon Wehrli Music Direction Simon Wunderlin Stage and costume design & Aesthetic overall concept Elisa Alessi Assistand set designer Myriam Casanova Assistand set designer Roger Lämmli


Participating students

Melanie Auinger, Alessia Aversa, Luca Caprez, Manuel Carulli, Gayatri Chawla, Heja Demir, Elisa Fiammengo, Luca Fischer, Dragan Gojkovic, Adriana Gomez, Marlon Grabner, Lara Grande Hernandez, Dominic Guyer, Yara Hinder, Lonita Honi, Leoni Hürlimann, Eljesa Idrizi, Alenka Jenni, Elia Kramer, Mona Krebser, Enya Marbot, Silas Mazenauer, Ivan Nikolov, Noa Piera, Julie Portmann, Felix Riediker, Iain Ritter, Niklas Schmid, Abril Schneider, Esmée Senn, Arza Shala, Anina Soyka, Louisa Spörli, Pedro Suelzle, Noel Thala, Anna Vallado, Alea Weidmann, Laura Weidmann, Naemi Weiss, Lazar Zivkovic

Homeroom teachers

Pascal Benz, Adrian Truninger


Dates & Tickets

July 2025

Thu

03

Jul
19.30

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Premiere, Studiobühne

Fri

04

Jul
19.30

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CHF 15
Studiobühne

Sat

05

Jul
19.30

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CHF 15
Studiobühne

Sun

06

Jul
19.30

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CHF 15
Studiobühne

Tue

08

Jul
10.00

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No tickets available
Studiobühne

19.30

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CHF 15
Studiobühne

Good to know

Abstract

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Abstract

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Gallery

 

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© Photos: Maria Cheilopoulou

Biographies


Andreas Sauter, Director

Andreas Sauter

 Born in Zurich, Andreas Sauter studied «Scenic Writing» at the Berlin University of the Arts. Since graduating in 2002, he has lived and worked in Berlin as a playwright and director for theatre and radio plays. He also leads writing workshops and play development projects throughout the German-speaking world. As a solo author and in collaboration with Bernhard Studlar, he has written over 20 plays and radio dramas, which have been performed nationally and internationally and have received multiple awards. From 2015 to 2022, Andreas Sauter was the Artistic Director of Dramenprozessor at Theater Winkelwiese in Zurich, a development program for new dramatic writing. 

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Simon Wehrli, Choreography

Simon Wehrli

Simon Wehrli (Switzerland / Slovenia) began his career as a musician before attending the Accademia Teatro Dimitri in Verscio (CH) and studying contemporary dance at Trinity Laban in London (UK). He toured across Europe, the USA, and Africa with Collettivo Spettatori, 50collective, and Sons of Sissy/Simon Mayer. As a dancer, actor, and musician, he has worked with choreographers in cities such as London, New York, Brussels, Porto, Zurich, Basel, and Vienna.
Simon teaches dance both in Switzerland and abroad, is a guest lecturer in the Bachelor's program in dance at La Manufacture in Lausanne, and is involved in his own productions and collaborations (including Križaj/Wehrli/Gisler, Ælia art collective). In recent years, he has also increasingly developed pieces with children and young people.

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Simon Wunderlin, Music Direction

Simon Wunderlin

Simon Wunderlin is a multi-instrumentalist, sound engineer, composer, and music educator. As a music teacher and facilitator, he collaborates with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Zurich Opera House, Silberbüx macht Schule, and Bildung & Kultur – die Wunderlinie. He loves creating things with people that didn’t exist before. His projects reach people of all ages and those with disabilities. Universities regularly invite him to share his expertise. Artistically, he is active with Simon in Wonderland, the duo Hess & Wunderlin, and the vocal project Stimmenfeuer PURA.

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Elisa Alessi, Stage and costume design & Aesthetic overall concept

Elisa Alessi

Elisa Alessi, born in 1981 in Basel, lives in Zurich and works as a freelance scenographer, set designer, costume designer, interior architect, and object designer. In 2008, she completed her studies in interior architecture and scenography at the University of Art and Design in Basel, graduating with a final project under Frédéric Dedelley. In the fields of interior architecture and design, she worked at Studio Hannes Wettstein and with Ushi Tamborriello. Following internships in directing and set design with Andreas Herrmann and Max Wehberg at the Lucerne Theater, she worked as an assistant set designer at Konzert Theater Bern from 2010 to 2013. Numerous projects in drama, dance, and musical theater were realized at Konzert Theater Bern, Theater Orchester Solothurn, Deutsches Theater Göttingen, as well as in the independent theater scene (Theater am Hechtplatz in Zurich, Schlachthaus Bern, Theater Roxy Basel). She has collaborated with directors including David Benjamin Brückel, Olivier Keller, Jan Stephan Schmieding, Ragna Guderian, Katharina Ramser, Dieter Kaegi, and Volker Hesse, as well as choreographers Cathy Marston and Tabea Martin. At the Zurich Opera House, she created the stage designs for «Konrad oder das Kind aus der Konservenbüchse» (2018) and «Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer» (2023).

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Roger Lämmli, Assistand set designer

Roger Lämmli

Roger Lämmli, originally a secondary school teacher, trained as a theater pedagogue at Till Theaterpädagogik (ZHdK) and studied French at the University of Neuchâtel. He has worked at Zurich Opera House for 16 years, where he is head of music theater education and was president of the kulturvermittlung-zh association for twelve years. He develops various educational formats for different age groups, creates participatory productions for children such as Fairytales on the Sound Carpet, Music Stories and imprO-Opera, develops pieces with young people and, as production manager, realizes various #education projects with school classes at Zurich Opera House.

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