Daniel Mezger

You have to imagine the scene: you grow up in poor conditions, get married early to get away from it all, are beaten by your husband and dragged into what is called show business. Under a foreign name, you travel around half the world to escape the man and the beatings and you finally arrive in Zurich. And you can not even work there. This is Transit-Zurich, do not confuse it with a home. Like every transit area, it also encourages us to reinvent ourselves. What story do I want to have? Who do I want to be? In Zurich, it’s better to be somebody. Somebody like Tina. For example.

Daniel Mezger writes a story about a story that cannot be told. And about a narrator who does not want to tell it. A nightmare. Tina und ich is a hymn of praise for failure, a play upon our stereotypes and expectations, full of drama and migration and the feeling that the neoliberal race for commodities is always better than the exhausted self. (Announcement Schauspielhaus Zürich)