So the year 2012 is here and the usual working routine has kicked in again. It is a bit sad to return to the daily business after having been to a more theatrical world again for several weeks with Swiss Christmas. I admit it is a little difficult to do all the operating and corporate jobs again. First one in a longer row of corporate productions was for a very…

Eventually all the different bits and pieces came together and we finally opened the show to the public one and a half weeks ago. There has been a major roller coaster moment just after the open dress run, when some of the producers approached the director with strong concerns about the show. Apparently the show has been marketed differently to what was now happening on stage. Besides the fact that…

Wow! This has been a monster week. It is now Sunday night at almost 2 a.m. This is an early night for me. The past week has pushed me close to my physical limit. But it also showed, that everything is possible, if you have not yet reached your mental limit. There have been projects in the past, where I had enough sleep and enough breaks, but still was extremely…

Apparently it is Thursday already and we are in Week 2 of the Christmas Circus Production here in Zurich Oerlikon. Days don’t matter any more. The past nights I spent sitting at the lighting desk and programming lighting and (with growing displeasure) video for this show. It is one thing to find the right lighting state for a circus act but I feel it is a completely different thing to…

So the first week of work in the bigtop of Swiss Christmas 2011 is over already. So far, not a lot and still a lot has happened. I have not yet recorded any cues (which is worrying me a little) but I have prepared a lot of things in the desk and the media server. But let’s start from top. During the first days of get-in I made my daily…

Well, we are rapidly approaching the end of October already and this means that today was the beginning of a project that will keep me busy for the rest of the year. Swiss Christmas is the third Circus production that opens its doors to the Zurich audience at the end of the year. After the premiere last year, this will be the second edition of the Christmas story for the…

We all have a certain style of lighting as production. Yes, the show dictates probably a lot about time and place of the story. And the director also has a high influence on the final product. His style and the way he imagines the show will ultimately determine the way it has to be dealt with lighting wise. But we all tend to have our own style that is usually…

… with big steps. It is unbelievable that this summer season seems to come to an end very soon now. I honestly have to admit, that I am not really looking forward to the autumn and winter time now. But for now, the end of August is here, and September is already knocking on the door. So what will happen next? Currently I am taking over the operating for a…

My old webpage has been outdated for months and months now. It was simply a very uncomfortable way for me as a non-IT person to keep it up to date all the time. The little free time a job in the entertainment industry gives you was simply too precious for me to spend in front of the computer editing the website. But there was always the feeling that I really…