Lucien Haug

Lucien Haug, born in Basel in 1992, is an author, dramaturg, and theatrical Swiss Army knife. He attended Bern University of the Arts and writes plays primarily in German and Swiss German. He has a long-standing collaboration with the junges theater basel and Suna Gürler. He has worked as a writer for the Schauspielhaus Zürich, the Maxim Gorki Theater, the Verein der Flaneure, the Junge Marie, as a director for the Treibstoff Theatertage Basel, as a drama teacher for the Junge Bühne Bern and Die Voyeure, as a curator of literature events for the BuchBasel festival and leads writing workshops in various locations. As an author, he enjoys regular participation in the rehearsal process and works on texts while walking, sitting and sleeping. When he’s not looking for rare animals, Lucien Haug is the center-back of the national writer’s football team and is writing an illegible novel.