fleischlin/meser

fleischlin/meser combine research on political/social issues with fragments from the pop business to create artistic/social events that usually take place in a stage space. These performances provoke points of contact between entertainment and intimate confession, between stage and auditorium, between criticism and utopia.

So far, they have created the pieces COME ON BABY (2011), DROP DEAD, GORGEOUS! (2013), I JUST WANNA FUCKING DANCE or BEGEISTERUNG UND PROTEST (2017 Kaserne Basel, Südpol Lucerne, Gessnerallee Zurich, Zeitgenössische Schweizer Tanztage Geneva, Sophiensaele Berlin, Theater Rampe Stuttgart). Also in May 2017, they realized RADICAL HOPE no1 / PILATUSBLICK, a dance project with young refugees, at Südpol. The project was met with great enthusiasm and was resumed in November 2017. In winter 2018/2019, they co-directed the Kaserne Basel Dance Academy, a dance project for 3 school classes. The resulting dance city tour WHO WE ARE took the audience through the public space and into the children's rooms of participating pupils in May 2019.

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“THIS IS ME*” - ‘a two-solo evening’ in the subtitle (2019), is a feminist piece that addresses the current gender debate. “WHAT IS HUMAN” (2020) is designed as a thinking space and celebration to reflect on ideas of family. In QUEEP (2021), the performers practise ambivalent hope in the Gorki's container. This project gave rise to QUEEPS (2022), which toured the city as part of an urban intervention at the Swiss Theatertreffen. In 2023, they performed the piece “Fleischmesserscharfe Alltagsstories” at the Kulturhof Hinter Musegg, in which they provide (seemingly) private insights into their lives and reveal fragments from earlier works.

They are currently working on PLEASURE STUDIES (AT) in collaboration with the performers Daniela Ruocco and Ilona Kannewurf. Together they want to prove that pleasure is a nutrient and that many people with pleasure energy are a force to be reckoned with. (Premiere: spring 2026).

fleischlin/meser received the Swiss Theater Award in 2021.

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