Fatima Moumouni & Laurin Buser

Fatima Moumouni, is a spoken word poet, presenter and columnist living in Zurich. She has been performing on various stages in German-speaking countries since 2011. In addition to solo performances, she performs together with Laurin Buser as a duo. The two were awarded the Salzburg Bull for their joint evening program GOLD 2021. With journalist Uğur Gültekin, she hosts Moumouni/Gültekin – Switzerland’s first post-foreign, post-migrant late night show. At the Gessnerallee in Zurich, Moumouni hosts her series of talks The New Insecurity. Disco Edition, a plea for more space for insecurity on public stages as a motor for more progressive discourses.

Laurin Buser is a slam poet, rapper, presenter and actor from Basel. Raised in a theater family, he performed at a poetry slam for the first time at 15 and has won several championship titles. Buser is considered an eccentric performer who tests the boundaries of genres. Buser has developed three full-length programs to date (most recently GOLD with Fatima Moumouni), and in parallel he has participated in several theater productions, including at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. In Basel, he hosted the Slam Basel series for five years and curated the Augusta Raurica Slam for 3 seasons.