{"id":87215,"date":"2026-09-03T09:13:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foraus.ch\/bern-2025-edition\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:43:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:43:51","slug":"bern-2025-edition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/foraus.ch\/en\/bern-2025-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Bern 2025 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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“The Millennium Flood” in Bern, 2025<\/strong><\/p>

The first pilot project for \u201cThe Millennium Flood,\u201d the first scenario in the overall project \u201cPolitics on Stage: Deciding the Future,\u201d took place in Bern in the spring of 2025. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Here you can watch a short trailer<\/a> for the events planned in Bern in 2025.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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What is “The Millennium Flood” about?<\/b><\/p>

Fall 2037. A deluge is sweeping across Switzerland, a country nestled in the Alps. Weeks of storms, melting snow, and extreme rainfall are washing away the mountainsides and flooding the Swiss Plateau. The authorities are overwhelmed. Our neighboring countries are ready to come to Switzerland\u2019s aid with their \u201cGreen Helmets\u201d\u2014these newly formed \u201cclimate change response troops.\u201d In return, Switzerland must send its own citizens to serve in the Green Helmets. What should be done? <\/p>

In \u201cThe Millennium Flood,\u201d set in the not-too-distant future, the audience meets prominent figures from the worlds of politics, business, and science and must make a decision: join the Green Helmets and commit to fighting climate change, or face the crisis alone? Human lives and Switzerland\u2019s independence are at stake. The ultimatum expires at 9 p.m. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Shows<\/b><\/p>

On April 23, 29, and 30, as well as May 5, 2025, we were pleased to host four unique and highly successful performances at Bern City Hall, attended by 76 experts and more than 700 participants. During our special \u201cYoung\u201d edition on April 30, we also organized discussions with an audience of people under 30, which allowed us to engage young people in this fictional political debate. It is with satisfaction and pride that we look back on these fantastic and thrilling moments, these fascinating political discussions, and this dramatic debate during which the politics of tomorrow suddenly seemed within reach and very real. <\/p>

Featuring prominent figures such as Andrea Sprecher Olsansky, Guy Krayenb\u00fchl, Daniel Koch, Regula Rytz, Ambassador Karin M\u00f6ssenlechner, Jacqueline de Quattro, Flavia Wasserfallen, Marc Jost, Francis Cheneval, Swiss Youth for Climate, Petra Sieber, Cyril Brunner, Fabienne St\u00e4mpfli, Romeo Arnold, Toni Eder, Elisa Cadelli, Benno Zogg, actors from B\u00fchnen Bern, Tom Berger, Nathan N\u00e4pfli, Christine Badertscher, Damaris Hohler, Christian B\u00e4r, Flavien Gousset, Am\u00e9lie Gallad\u00e9, Nicole Siegrist, and representatives from Klimasenior:innen.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Media Coverage<\/b>
<\/b>We have to pay for our climate sins. With a catastrophe?<\/a> \u2013 Berner Zeitung, Jasmin Jaun
In the Flood<\/a> \u2013 Republic, Leonard Haverkamp
Emergency Committee Discusses Simulated Crisis<\/a> \u2013 TeleB\u00e4rn, Micha Weibel
Kultur Kompakt Podcast<\/a> (starting at 15:04) \u2013 Swiss Radio and Television (SRF), Anna Jungen
JD Vance is U.S. President and Ms. Blocher Works at a Soup Kitchen: Political Theater Simulates the Future<\/a> \u2013 Tagblatt, Julia Stephan
The Flood of the Century \u2013 When Theater, Politics, and the Audience Come Together<\/a> \u2013 Deutschlandfunk, Anita Gestr\u00fcpp
A scenario that feels alarmingly real<\/a> \u2013 Journal B, Noah Pilloud
\u201cThe Flood of the Millennium\u201d: Under a State of Emergency<\/a> \u2013 WOZ Die Wochenzeitung, Tabea Andres<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The lessons learned from the four performances were then discussed with members of Congress and led to a bipartisan parliamentary inquiry<\/a>.<\/p>

Note: Additional images are available via this link<\/a> \u00a9J\u00e9r\u00f4me Favre.<\/p>

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A big thank you to our partners for their invaluable support:<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/article><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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