Markus
@zohner
Writer, theatre director and film photographer. Taking my theatre company on worldwide tours, whilst walking across Europe one journey at a time. Most recent trek: Venice to St Petersburg. Atheist. Posts in 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇩🇪
We are pleased to have renewed the funding convention between our Associazione artistica PETRUSKA and the City of Lugano for 2026 and 2027. With it, the City guarantees the non-profit association continued support. Video still from RADIO FRANKENSTEIN #zohnerarts
Ritrovare il piacere di scrivere: una settimana di scrittura creativa a Villa Ciani, Lugano.
Everything is always more than the sum of the parts. Mere addition only exists in mathematics. In reality, any two or more things form something infinitely bigger, more precious than the single elements. The best example: Gin and Tonic. The Black Friar, London #zohnerarts
Cosa serve per scrivere una storia? Bisogna cominciare: da un posacenere, una nuvola, un insetto. Corso intensivo di scrittura creativa, 20-24 luglio, Villa Ciani, Lugano. Iscrizioni: https://zohner.com/it/workshops/villa-ciani-07-2026/
Fra Memoria e Immaginazione. Settimana di corso intensivo estivo di scrittura creativa con Patrizia Barbuiani e Markus Zohner. Villa Ciani, Lugano, 20-24 luglio 2026, nell'ambito di LongLake Festival. Iscrizioni: zohner.com/it/workshops/villa-ciani-07-2026 #scritturacreativa #zohnerarts
Hackney Half 2026. The half marathon you signed up for a year ago had, until today, been a distant fixed star, one that made it easier to find your bearings. Now, all at once, it stands before you, huge and dazzling, and demands your full concentration.
You have seen Giacometti's tall figures in countless contexts, the most breathtaking being here in The Tanks / Tate Modern. But then you step into a tiny circular room. You forget to breathe. The endlessly high walls covered by black iron panels cast for the Bankside Power Station.
London. A sensational display of Alberto Giacometti's work at Tate Modern. It is the first time I have seen his sculptures in a setting that turns the act of looking itself into an experience. Dark rooms. Raw concrete walls. Precise lighting. Giacometti's sculptures, breathing.
I am so happy meeting my brother Johannes here. He lives near Aachen, in Germany, a thousand kilometres away from me, but we do everything to meet several times a year. Now: London.
Stratford, The Shoal. London does not pull down what it would rather not see. It dresses it, and keeps walking. A brutalist shopping centre from 1974, and the unlovely truth of it: the service back, the delivery bays and car-park ramps, faced straight onto the station where the whole city arrives.
Fermati! Mi dico. Fermati! E poi: Terra! E di nuovo questa storia di quel giovane mi prende. Non l’ho mai conosciuto. Vietato attraversare i binari. Fermati! Anche se dall'altra parte dei binari la tua nuova vita potrebbe aspettarti.
The first Spiegelschrift letter has gone out to my Kompagnons. On what makes wild, immediate, independent work possible. On a small inner circle forming around projects that sit outside the usual cultural funding paths. Parco San Grato, Carona, spring 2026. #spiegelschrift
APPLE! APFEL! MELO! At 420 metres in Origlio, a Regina delle Renette blooms every April. An old variety, Reine des Reinettes in French, Goldparmäne in German, well suited to the southern Alpine climate.
Scrittura creativa a Bordei: quando il laboratorio cambia tutto. Paola seguiva il nostro teatro da anni. Poi si è seduta al tavolo del workshop di Villa Ciani e ha scoperto qualcosa che non si aspettava: strumenti concreti, precisi, che hanno trasformato il suo modo di stare davanti alla pagina.
What tree is this? What fruit will it bear? Origlio, 420 metres. #zohnerarts #origlio #ticino #nature #quiz #swissalps
PLUM! PFLAUME! SUSINO! At 860 metres in the Centovalli, a wild plum blooms every March. The fruit ripens in August: small, sweet, impossible to catch before the birds do. #zohnerarts #centovalli #ticino #plum #pflaume #susino #nature #swissalps
What tree is this? What fruit will it bear? Centovalli, 860 metres. #zohnerarts #centovalli #ticino #nature #plum #quiz #swissalps
There are moments that simply ought to exist forever. Catapulted from their moment-ness into eternity. Instants where place, inner state, relationships weave themselves into a point of the absolute: this way and no other.
Haste is slow. Wisdom is rare. #zohnerarts #london #blackfriars #blackfriarspub #leicaphotography #leicam #streetphotography #londonpubs #londonbynight #publife #england
Fourteen hours on rails from Lugano to Suffolk. The Gotthard swallows us whole. A stranger in Paris sends me to the wrong platform. Fish and chips at the Blackfriars. Last train into dark countryside. ↗ https://notes.zohner.com/the-man-on-the-wrong-platform/
Salotto di scrittura: lo spazio dove il tuo progetto fiorisce. La primavera apre tutto. I ciliegi, le magnolie. Quella storia che gira in testa da mesi. Open Spaces: scrittura creativa online, ogni martedì e giovedì sera. Con Patrizia Barbuiani e Markus Zohner. links.zohner.com/open-spaces
[EN] There's a particular quality of silence that falls when someone reads a truth they've just discovered in their own writing.
[IT] Dall'Italia alla Russia: nove mesi di cammino attraverso Slovenia, Ungheria, Polonia e Stati Baltici. Un viaggio nel cuore sconosciuto dell'Europa. sbee.link/ytmcahg93r #Cammino #Esplorazione #ViaggioAPiedi #ViaAmbra