Bruno Alexander Spoerri (born 16 August 1935) is a Swiss jazz and electronics musician.
Born in Zurich, he studied applied psychology in Basel and Zurich. He played the saxophone as a student, and toured with the Modern Jazz Group Freiburg in Germany and Switzerland. In the early 1960s, he worked as a psychologist and career counsellor. He experimented with electrified saxophone and published the album Voice of Taurus in 1978. [1]
Achim Benning was a German actor and theatre director. He was director of the Burgtheater in Vienna from 1976 to 1986, and director of the Schauspielhaus Zürich from 1989 to 1992. He died on 30 January 2024, at the age of 89.
Adolf Muschg is a Swiss writer and professor of literature. Muschg was a member of the Gruppe Olten.
There was significant emigration of Swiss people to the Russian Empire from the late 17th to the late 19th century. Rauber (1985) estimates that a number of 50,000 to 60,000 Swiss lived in Russia between roughly 1700 and 1917.
Markus Imhoof is a Swiss film director, screenwriter, theatre and opera director.
Valérie von Martens, born Valérie Pajér Edle von Mayersperg, was a German-Austrian actress.
Dani Gal is an artist and a filmmaker who lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Marcus Maeder is a sound artist, acoustic ecologist and composer of electronic music.
Don Li is a Swiss composer, musician and music producer of reductive music.
Foofwa d’Imobilité is a Swiss dancer and choreographer. He lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland, and Brooklyn, New York.
Corin Curschellas is a Swiss singer-songwriter, vocalist, free improvisation, actress, voice actress in as well as voice instructress.
Ralf Weikert is an Austrian conductor, especially of operas by Mozart and Rossini. He is an academic teacher of conducting in Luzern.
Ursela Monn is a German-Swiss actress and singer.
Björn Meyer is a Swedish bassist and composer.
Kurt Pahlen was an Austrian conductor and musicologist.
Sylvia Gähwiller was a Swiss operatic soprano and a voice teacher. She was most successful as a concert and recital singer, who also performed works by contemporary composers.
Max Terpis, real name Max Pfister, also Max Pfister-Terpis, was a Swiss dancer, choreographer, director and psychologist.
Rea Brändle was a Swiss journalist and writer.
Julien-François Zbinden was a Swiss composer and jazz pianist.
Hans Eugen Frischknecht is a Swiss composer, organist, choral conductor and harpsichordist.
Alexander Malta was a Swiss operatic bass-baritone.