Jacob Berger




  • Lausanne: Théâtre Vidy and Complicité

    Jun 15 2026

    From 22nd of October to 8th of November in Lausanne, Théâtre Vidy and partners propose a wide range of events around the Simon McBurney solo show Questions for John, a Complicité production.
    Actor and director, Simon McBurney was a close friend of John Berger. He founded the renowned maverick theatre company Complicité, with which they created in 1995 The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol adapted from John Berger…
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  • Do you know what I watch?

    Jun 25 2026

    Animal traces in John Berger’s work
    * Version française ci-dessous *
    “Do you know what I watch?” is a choral reading devised by Katya Berger-Andreadakis. It will be read in several places by Katya, Jacob and Yves Berger, John Berger’s children. A family contribution to this centenary.
    There is hardly any book of John Berger’s that doesn’t include a few pages about animals. Both as a writer and …
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JOHN BERGER

Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, painter and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Solo or in collaboration with Jean Mohr for example, he published more than 30 titles, the Booker Prize winning novel G and the best-seller Ways of Seeing. He has also published articles in the most important newspapers around the world.

He used to work and live in Quincy, a small French peasant community, the setting for his trilogy Into their Labours.

Painters, cineasts, writers, dancers, curators have been and are still inspired by his work, this website is a window on these TODAY creations.