Benno Besson

Here in Zurich he had the opportunity to attend many plays by exiled German actors and the premiere of Brecht's works at the Schauspielhaus Zürich.

He took part in the tours organised in the German territories still occupied by France in 1947, under the aegis of the Office Général de Décentralisation du Théâtre and met its director Jean-Marie Serreau.

Besson then worked at the Deutsches Theater where he had great success among others with "Der Frieden" (Aristophanes edited by Peter Hacks).

[1] and "Der Drachen" (Evgny Schwartz) which was one of his acquainted stagings, so that they travelled with Deutsches Theater all-around Europe and Asia (also in Japan).

[5][6] and other contemporary authors and stage directors like Christoph Hein, Manfred Karge, Matthias Langhoff, Fritz Marquardt.

He so continues to work in Avignon and other European theatres and became 1982 director of the Comédie de Genève in French speaking Switzerland.