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Biography
Simone Rist lived thirty years in Germany, she returned to France in late 2009. She is the president of the Cultural Association Förderverein Deutsch-Französischer Kultur (Friends of the Franco-German culture) in Stuttgart and artistic director of Champs Meles Association / Simone Rist Theater Company in Paris. Simone Rist is experienced in several artistic paths. It goes from music to theater, from writing to staging multidisciplinary performances in Europe.

She began her artistic career as a singer and sang, beside the classical repertoire, contemporary works of Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Luigi Nono, Stockhausen ...

Together with Pierre Schaeffer she works at Musical Research Group. It was a research of several years in the field of concrete music and relations of sound and image. Finally she participated in documentation for Pierre Schaeffer’s book "Treaité des objets musicaux.” The creation of the Song Books of John Cage for the Autumn Festival of Paris in 1970 and numerous representations of this work in Europe with John Cage and Merce Cunningham, revealed her director vocation.

After Installing in Germany, Lower Saxony, she taught musical theater at the University of Göttingen. While Instigator and director of TAM-Weserberglandtheater (1978-1994) she created and directed  performances of spoken theater, song and dance, opera and plays, especially the ones of Goethe, Schiller, Moliere, Racine, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Vian, as well as her own plays. Her texts and performances are programmed in "Documenta" in Kassel, "French Week" festival in Stuttgart, Tübingen, Kiel, Dortmund, Frankfurt/Main, Hamburg and Strasbourg in France and Lyon, and recently in Ile de France, as well as in various festivals in Europe (Bonner Sommer, Warsaw Autumn, Holland Festival ....)

As an actress, she has appeared in one-woman shows and participated in numerous German, Austria and French radio broadcasts. She writes for children and young people. It makes them play and thus she gives them a taste of the theater, as well as the sense of working together and being responsible.

On the occasion of the French-Russian year she adopted and staged musical performance based on Chekhov: "Ivan Ivanovitch ... une échapée russe" In 2012, she wrote and stage performance "The Boat, Wave and Driver" on the occasion of the Bicentennial of the Russian writer Alexander Herzen (ordered by Turgenev Museum).

Current Projects
Getting back in Paris, Simone Rist dedicated her time firstly to documentation and writing the play “A la vie, a la mort”. This play will be presented at "Avignon OFF 2014" festival. On the other hand she is elaborating a European exhibition “Theatre au feminin” on the history of women in theatre, a common project between French and German associations: Champs Meles and Förderverein Deutsch-Französischer Kultur. "Strange discovery", a Syrian author Amin Elsaleh's play is in preparation.