CORA RUDY VAN DONGEN/FROST worked as a dancer, actor, performance artist and writer from 1981 - 1988. During this time, Cora moved between nightclubs and national theaters, staging quirky, offbeat shows. Since 1978, he has presented his song recitals nationwide on tour and worldwide on guest appearances in Sao Paulo, the opera house of Manaus (Brazil), Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Mexico City, and with Tim Fischer in duet recitals through Syria, Egypt and Sudan, among others. As a dancer he moved to Florida, Chicago and New York. As an actor he worked with Hans Kresnik, Adriana Altaras, Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola and went on tour in Brazil with Das Helmi. He has also worked with Georgette Dee, Popette Betancor, the homeless theater Ratten o7, Jim Avignon, the Klezmatics, Manuela Riva, Wolfgang Müller, Gianna Nannini and Marianne Sägebrecht. The film Paradiso - 7 Days with 7 Women, in which he appeared alongside Hans Zischler and Irm Hermann, won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2000 for the ensemble of actors. Since 2004, in addition to touring as a singer-songwriter, Cora Frost has increasingly worked for the puppet theater Das Helmi, as a performance artist and for musical theater. He has been showing works at Sophiensæle since 2012. www.corafrost.de
FRANZ REIMER (*1977) has been developing and realizing experimental exhibition situations and architectures for media art as a media artist and curator for many years. His works are shown nationally and internationally in exhibitions and at media art festivals. For example, his installation THE SITUATION ROOM has been shown in the exhibition SCHWINDEL DER WIRKLICHKEIT at the Akademie der Künste Berlin in 2014 and at the Kunsthaus Graz in 2019. In search of new forms of expression and artistic exchange, he is increasingly playing the stages of theater and film.