Die Umkehrung (The Inversion)

Born in 1953 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia—now part of Poland. Moved to Germany with his family and grew up in Mannheim. Jobs have included: ambulance driver in the U.S. Army, pastry chef at Prestat Ltd. in London, singer in a country-punk band, roadie, journalist and photographer for rocker and tattoo magazines (Germany, U.S.), video producer, museum director of the Puppet Theater Museum Berlin, puppeteer, clown, and actor. In short: a résumé that has successfully refused to become one. Today, he is working on an animated film about this life.

is an Australian-Swiss filmmaker living in Berlin. After graduating in Media Arts at RMIT Melbourne, Jack has gone on to work as writer, director and editor for film and television. His second feature, Biscuit Tin Blues, premiered at the Solothurner Filmtage 2025 and has won multiple audience and feature awards. Alongside this, he acts and performs voiceover for diverse productions. Jack appeared in Frauke Havemann’s Weather House and Be Right Back, and rejoins her for The Inversion.

Regina Gyr is from Zürich and studied acting before completing a degree in Theatre Direction at the HFMT Hamburg. Since 2006 she has been based in Berlin and works as a freelance director in performing arts. Regina is a founding member of the Kostümkollektiv Berlin – a costume fund for the independent arts and is active as a costume designer for film.

Sabine Hertling’s artistic career began in 1983 at the „First Berlin School of Mime and Pantomime“. She then continued drama studies in Berlin followed by Indian dance studies in Paris and India before landing in Berlin’s independent performance scene. There she worked for years. Seit 2016 lebt sie in der Uckermark und ihr Schwerpunkt liegt inzwischen auf dem Unterrichten von Qigong und Tai Chi.

Based in Berlin and Athens, since her studies in Munich she has performed in theater, cinema, television and radio. She has played in the films of greek director Yorgos Zois, visual artist John Bock and georgian director Bidzina Kanchaveli. She participated as a performer and creator in productions in various state theaters as well as in the independent theater scene in Germany and Greece. Recently she collaborated with choreographer Ioannis Mandafounis at the National Theater in Athens and in Geneva.

(sasha/they) works as a creative producer for the performing arts and dance in Berlin—to date, Sasha has consistently worked behind the camera, including as production manager for Frauke Havemann’s Be Right Back. The Inversion now lured Sasha to the other side. In funded projects, Sasha oversees production processes from conception through strategic planning; since 2021, with ausland Berlin, on workshop and residency programs, and from 2023 to 2025 as part of the coordination team at produktionsbande. Sasha’s work understands networks as spaces of mutual support and collective agency—designed with a critical eye toward power structures to permanently make room for diverse identities within the scene.

Born in Freiburg in 1970, he lives in Berlin. He holds a degree in Educational Sciences and Historical Anthropology and focuses on movement practices, with an emphasis on rehabilitation and prehabilitation. After WEATHER HOUSE, this is his second film with Frauke Havemann.

Frauke Havemann is a Berlin based filmmaker, theater director and choreographer. ON AIR is her production company (Film/Video/Performance), founded together with Eric Schefter in 2002. Havemann’s work includes films and live projects which explore the intersections of performance, theater, film and media art. Her first feature film Weather House premiered at the 2017 Slamdance Film Festival (Official Selection in the Narrative Competition), travelled throughout the film festival circuit and is now streaming on Amazon Prime, sooner.de and Slamdance Channel. In 2020 she finished the mid-length essay film The Woman Who Swallowed Her House. Her second feature film Gleich zurück (Be Right Back) premiered at Slamdance 2022 (Breakouts section).

Eric Schefter began working as an editor in film and television in New York after receiving a B.A. in Film and Video from NYU. Additionally in the early 90s he cofounded four intermedia performance groups including 77 Hz and The Luminists. In 1997 he moved to Berlin. Some of his credits as an editor include the feature films Gendernauts (Monika Treut), The Nomi Song, We are Twisted Fucking Sister (Andrew Horn) and Sarita (Sergio Basso). Since 2002, he has worked with Frauke Havemann on live performances, installations and the films Weather House (co-director), The Woman Who Swallowed Her House (camera) and Be Right Back (producer).

Matthias Wittekindt is a former architect who started to work in the realm of theater in 1988. After initial successes in German, Austrian and Swiss theaters, Wittekindt decided to give up his work as an architect in favour of literary work including theater pieces, radio plays and books. In addition to writing episodes for the ARD radio series Tatort (Crime Scene), he is an award winning author published by the Nautilus, Heyne and Kampa publishing companies.

Regina Gyr is from Zürich and studied acting before completing a degree in Theatre Direction at the HFMT Hamburg. Since 2006 she has been based in Berlin and works as a freelance director in performing arts. Regina is a founding member of the Kostümkollektiv Berlin – a costume fund for the independent arts and is active as a costume designer for film.

Liisi Hint (she/her) is a Berlin-based dance artist, archivist and crafter from Estonia. In her work, she tries to decipher the surrounding absurdity by describing her personal physical and sensory experience. By threading archiving and crafts into her practice, Liisi deals with topics such as identity, ambiguity, the unknown. Next to her own research, she enjoys playfully moving through different mediums and exploring new ways how to connect to bodies through care.