Cor­ne­lius Hun­ziker

Cornelius Hunziker was born in Switzerland in 1983 and lives in Basel. He has been lighting master and lighting designer at Theater Basel since 2012 and head of the lighting department since 2023.

Before that, he was lighting designer at the Neumarkt Theatre in Zurich, the Neues Theater in Dornach and for independent productions. He has created lighting designs for productions by Viktor Bodó, Susanne Kennedy, Martin Kušej, Antonio Latella, Christoph Marthaler, Sebastian Nübling, Ulrich Rasche, Simon Stone and Philipp Stölzl, among others. Three productions (Drei Schwestern after Anton Chekhov, directed by Simon Stone / Woyzeck by Georg Büchner, directed by Ulrich Rasche / Tartuffe by Peter Licht after Molière, directed by Claudia Bauer) were guests at the Berlin Theatertreffen. The opera Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass, directed by Susanne Kennedy, was invited to the Berliner Festspiele. Cornelius Hunziker is co-founder of the label Sprachhaus M.