Bendix Fesefeldt

Projects

2026
MOFO by Rocco Schira (Bellinzona / Lugano) dramaturg
2025
The Whole Routine by Thomas Edwardsson (London) dramaturg
2025
Morning Time by Belle Santos (Kyoto / Berlin) dramaturg
2023
The Wake by Belle Santos (Berlin) performer
2022
RED by Brandy Butler (Zurich) co-concept and author
2022
Second Solo Show by Sultan Çoban (Zürich) performer and dramaturg
2021
Klima/Krise/Klitoris by Marie Baumgarten and collective (Berlin) performer and dramaturg

Institutional
Work

2020–25

I worked in ZΓΌrich as a dramaturg during the artistic direction of Benjamin von Blomberg and Nicolas Stemann and partly with Uli Khuon. I was involved in several institutional change processes, often in the DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) area; for instance, I developed the staff tool “timezeit” to encourage greater interaction between different departments through flexible working hours. I was responsible for liaising between the ensemble and the theatre, as well as for the recruitment procedures for assistants. Together with the Zurich Porn Film Festival Porny Days, I curated the performance art programme shown at the theatre during the festival. I conceived the opening and farewell party, curated and moderated various panels, and organised staged readings. To counter declining audience numbers, I developed an Audience Summit, where interested parties engage in conversation with representatives of Zurich’s cultural scene at round-table discussions, whilst out walking, and over meals.

2019–20

I was part of the preparatory team for the new artistic directorship of Andreas Beck in Munich, where I worked as a dramaturg from 2019 to 2020. During the coronavirus pandemic, I conceived and curated Resi ruft an and was responsible for its implementation.

Dramaturgical
Collaboration
Alexander Giesche
Moise und die Welt der Vernunft, 2024, Pfauen, Schauspielhaus ZΓΌrich
AFTERHOUR, 2021, Schiffbau-Box, Schauspielhaus ZΓΌrich
Barbara Weber
Prima Facie, 2025, Pfauen, Schauspielhaus ZΓΌrich
Bastian Kraft
Die kleine Meerjungfrau, 2025, Pfauen, Schauspielhaus ZΓΌrich / 2026 Thalia Theater Hamburg
Lulu, 2019, Marstall, Residenztheater
Christiane Jatahy
Der Junge aus der letzten Reihe, 2023, Schiffbau-Box, Schauspielhaus ZΓΌrich
Before the Sky Falls, 2021, Pfauen, Schauspielhaus ZΓΌrich
Gernot GrΓΌnewald
Vier Tage im Juli, 2018, Box, Deutsches Theater Berlin
Lesbos – Blackbox Europa, 2017, Box, Deutsches Theater Berlin
Karin Henkel
Medea, 2020, Residenztheater
Beute Frauen Krieg, 2017, Schiffbau-Halle, Schauspielhaus ZΓΌrich
eingeladen zum Theatertreffen 2018
Milo Rau
Wilhelm Tell, 2022, Pfauen, Schauspielhaus ZΓΌrich
Nicolas Stemann
Riesenhaft in Mittelerde, 2023, Schiffbau-Halle, Schauspielhaus ZΓΌrich β€” Koproduktion mit dem Theater HORA und Das Helmi
eingeladen zum Theatertreffen 2024
Sonne, los jetzt!, 2022, Pfauen, Schauspielhaus ZΓΌrich
Versammlung fΓΌr einen Frosch, 2020, Pfauen, Schauspielhaus ZΓΌrich
Borgen, 2016, SchaubΓΌhne Berlin

I am an independent theatre maker. I studied political science in Paris, Tel Aviv and Berlin focussing on Middle Eastern Studies and interning at the Institut franΓ§ais in Ramallah. After a brief detour into the private sector and some unsuccessful attempts in international NGO work, I started to work as a dramaturgy assistant at the international performing arts festival Foreign Affairs in Berlin and to study theatre directing at the HfS Ernst Busch.

After successfully dropping out of my theatre directing studies, I started to work as an in house dramaturg in institutions such as Residenztheater in Munich and Schauspielhaus ZΓΌrich. Alongside my institutional work, I also regularly worked in independent theatre contexts.

Since 2025 I works as an independent theatre maker, between dramaturgy, writing, directing and sometimes performing. Thematically, my work often connects themes of death and grief, desire and sexualised violence, and queer strategies of resistance.

Bendix Fesefeldt

Contact

bendix.fesefeldt@gmail.com