IN PRODUCTION - DOCUMENTARIES
by Luisa Ricar
?Platte 27? - a meeting place for Zurich?s avant-garde youth in the 60s and 70s. The club defied conservative norms, hosting parties, underground films, contemporary art and political discussions. ?Underground Explosion? tells the story of a pop cultural revolution - and asks what remains of it today.
by Stina Werenfels
The outstanding reputation of the Schauspielhaus Zurich is based on artists exiled during the Nazi era, such as Bertolt Brecht and Therese Giehse. The theatre became a centre of cultural resistance against fascism in Europe. After the war, the theatre established itself with Frisch and Dürrenmatt and modern American authors. What has been forgotten is that this was all thanks to a German Jew: Kurt Hirschfeld.
