Draft:Cornelia Bernoulli

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Cornelia Bernoulli (Born 1954 in Basel) is a Swiss actress from the Bernoulli family. She conceives, writes, and produces theater collages.

Life

Cornelia Bernoulli is the daughter of architect Lucas Bernoulli (1907–1976) and Erika Bernoulli-Gries (1919–2014). After graduating from high school, she received her primary school teaching diploma in Basel . In 1978, she obtained an acting diploma from the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. For several years, she held permanent engagements at theaters in Göttingen, Hildesheim, and Kaiserslautern . Since 1985, she has lived and worked as a freelance actress, voice artist, and author, primarily in Munich.

Bernoulli played classical, modern and comic roles (from the dazzling Vera Donovan in Stephen King's thriller Dolores - directed by Ezard Haußmann - to the Feng Shui-loving Swiss housekeeper Rita in the comedy The True Eva - C. Kilian / N. Schmidt - or the quirky writer Josephine Zillertal in the farce Pension Schöller). She took part in cabaret theater revues and performed in Munich, among others, at the Theaterzelt Das Schloss , the Komödie im Bayerischen Hof , the Theater Drehleier and the Oberanger Theater . She has also toured with Will Quadflieg , Renan Demirkan and Gila von Weitershausen . She has performed as a guest at various theatres, including the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen , the Hamburger Kammerspiele , the Burgfestspiele Mayen , the Altes Schauspielhaus and the Komödie im Marquardt in Stuttgart, the Domfestspiele Bad Gandersheim , the Ateliertheater Bern , the Stadttheater Chur , the Landestheater Coburg and the Fritz Rémond Theater in Frankfurt.

In 2004/2005, Cornelia Bernoulli produced the experimental feature film Hey! together with Horst Stenzel , wrote the screenplay, and played one of the leading roles. She has also appeared in various television productions: among others in Alleineingang – directed by Hartmut Schoen , for Das Erste, Weniger ist mehr (Less is more) – directed by Jan Růžička for Das Erste – in Der Tanz mit dem Teufel (The Dance with the Devil) – directed by Peter Keglevic , for Sat.1; and in series such as Café Meineid by Franz Xaver Bogner , Um Himmels Willen and various episodes of the crime series SOKO .

Bernoulli has been engaged for numerous different readings, including by the German Theater Museum in Munich (from the correspondence between Marianne Hoppe and Gustaf Gründgens ) and by book publishers. Since 1987, Bernoulli has worked as a narrator in audio book productions for the Bavarian Audio Library in Munich . She has also worked as a screenwriter and teaches breathing and speech techniques, role study, and text composition. Bernoulli develops various scenic and literary programs with which she and her colleagues tour throughout the German-speaking cultural landscape. In November 2017, Cornelia Bernoulli received the Zonta Five Lakes Media Prize in Bavaria for play, production, and performance in Luther's Lust and Love. As one of the former partners of the Swiss director Josef Scheidegger, she appeared in Eva Vitija's 2015 documentary about her father: Turning Life - How My Father Tried to Capture Happiness.