Meiser quits as Gare du Nord manager
After 22 years, Désirée Meiser, the artistic director and co-founder of Gare du Nord, will hand over her position at her own request at the end of June 2024.
According to the press release, Désirée Meiser is co-founder and artistic director of Gare du Nord, the station for new music in Basel. Since the opening of Gare du Nord in 2002, she has been its artistic director (until 2008 together with dramaturge Ute Haferburg). She has made a significant contribution to firmly anchoring Gare du Nord in the Swiss and international contemporary music scene.
Over the last 15 years, Meiser has also staged several music theater productions and gradually established the Gare du Nord as a venue for contemporary music theater with the "Musiktheaterformen" series, among other things. The board of the Gare du Nord's supporting association has set up a search committee to look for a successor. The position is scheduled to be advertised at the beginning of January 2023.
