After thirty years, during which she has played a key role in shaping the fortunes of the Zürcher Theater Spektakel, co-director Cornelia Howald will be retiring in October 2013. Her successor has already been chosen.
Howald's successor in the three-person festival team is 37-year-old cultural manager Delphine Lyner from Zurich. She studied sociocultural animation at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts before completing a part-time Executive Master of Arts Administration course at the University of Zurich.
From 2003 to 2007, she was President of the Swiss Youth Film Festival; since 2008, she has been Commercial Director of the Winterthur International Short Film Festival. Delphine Lyner, who will manage the Zürcher Theater Spektakel together with Werner Hegglin and Sandro Lunin, will take up her post this summer.
