Daniel Mezger

Daniel Mezger was born in 1978 and grew up in the Glarus Alps. He trained as an actor at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Berne and from 2001 worked at the Junges Theater Göttingen for several years. Since 2004, he has been working as a freelance author, actor and musician in Zurich. He studied at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel and is the lead singer of A Bang And A Whimper.
In 2008, Daniel Mezger took part in the Swiss Young Authors’ programme Dramenprozessor as well as in the Burgtheater’s Authors’ Workshop. With his play Findlinge he took part in the Heidelberger Stückemarkt; the play also won the Prize for Dramatic Writing of the Swiss Authors‘ Society. Balkanmusik in the production of the Staatstheater Mainz was invited to the Berlin Autorentheatertage. The play was also produced in Berne and Zurich amongst others. He participated in the Bachmannpreis 2010 with his novel Land spielen which was published in 2012. His play Als ich einmal tot war und Martin L. Gore mich nicht besuchen kam premiered in its „unplugged“ version at the Schauspielhaus Vienna in 2014 and in its „remastered“ version in a coproduction which toured several theatres in Switzerland and Germany in 2015.