About
Lucerne-based Markus Güdel (b. 1983) found his interest in the performing arts during his involvement in theater and musical productions during his school years.
Since 2003 he has worked as a freelance lighting designer throughout Switzerland. His in-depth knowledge of the lighting of complex stage projects was further developed by the violin-playing autodidact over many years of professional activity. Working with numerous directors and dramaturges, he solidified his knowledge of the possibilities of creating spaces and emotions with light. His artistic work finds its way into lighting design and technical direction for theaters, musicals and concert projects as well as crossover projects.
Projects of the Lucerne Festival, the Musical Sister Act (2019, Le Théâtre im Gersag, Emmen), the musical HAIR (2018, Schüpfheim) as well as the musical AVENUE Q (2016, Le Théâtre Kriens-Lucerne) and the youth project VERONA 3000 (2014, Lucerne) led him to performance venues such as the KKL Lucerne, the Philharmonie Luxembourg, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the Philharmonie Essen.
In 2003, together with business partners, he founded the lighting technology company "light.vision Lichttechnik GmbH" and since then has been working there as managing director and project manager. In various cultural institutions (including Le Théâtre in Gersag, Emmen, "Central Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra ZJSO" and "Musical Plus") he is involved in the work as a lighting designer as a producer, technical director, club executive or consultant again for cultural, organizational and technical matters/
In addition to his artistic work, he studied economics and law at the Universities of Zurich and Lucerne and graduated in 2010 with the Master of Law from the University of Lucerne. He then worked as a lawyer in the Lucerne law firm "Advokatur Sury AG", where he worked between June 2011 and the end of 2014 and worked on cultural and legal matters across all professions.
As a lecturer and lecturer, he informs event technicians and cultural workers in the sensitive handling of "cultural" law and writes articles on the same subject in professional journals in Switzerland. In the autumn of 2015, he founded his own law firm and since then advises and represents lawyers under the label "kulturjurist.ch" cultural practitioners around legal issues in the cultural sector.