ARIANE ANDEREGGEN 1969* grew up on Lake Constance in a non-academic family. As an actress, director and video artist, she works in extra-disciplinary and transnational contexts in the field of performing arts and has been a guest lecturer at the universities of the arts in Bern, Zurich and Lucerne. 
She studied acting at the HKB in Bern and completed her master's degree in media art at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG). She is currently also appearing as a guest actress at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin in productions by Anta Helena Recke, among others, and was involved in the project DIE KRÄNKUNGEN DER MENSCHHEIT (The Insults of Humanity). The production was named one of the 10 best at the 2020 Berlin Theater Meeting. Her solo performance AGE ON STAGE / (Am Rande des Rollenfeldes) 2020-2023 deals with the discriminatory intertwining of age and gender among actors, which also addresses class-based exclusions in the cultural sector along the lines of breaks in her own professional biography. Her documentary essay film KLASSENVERHÄLTNISSE AM BODENSEE (Class Relations at Lake Constance, 82 min.) was screened in 2023 in the Panorama section at the 58th Solothurn Film Festival.