Läubli Margrit

Video still oral history interview, 2019

Margrit Läubli completed her ballet training at the Zurich Opera House and trained as an actress in Zurich. Her first engagement was as a dancer at the Stadttheater Basel. Under the direction of Hans Macke, she danced for five years in the corps de ballet of the Stadttheater Zurich until 1950. A scholarship enabled her to continue her ballet studies in Paris.

Margrit Läubli appeared as an actress in the last two programs of Cabaret Cornichon and then became a member of Cabaret Fédéral, where she met her future husband César Keiser. From 1964, the cabaret duo Keiser-Läubli put on joint performances, for which Margrit Läubli was responsible as producer and designer of the so-called Opus programs. Almost all of these award-winning programs premiered at the Theater am Hechtplatz in Zurich, subsequently went on tour in Switzerland and were also seen as guest performances in Germany, Washington and New York.