Rosanna doesn’t like being put in boxes. She grew up in downtown Zurich – back then a melting pot of young intellectuals and the early Street Parade, an open heroin scene, and the feminist strike movement – and from an early age she absorbed two things like mother’s milk: politics and music.
While her mother was out on the streets protesting for Swiss women’s rights and her brother was learning to play the hammered dulcimer at jazz school, Rosanna found her niche in electronic music and the club culture of her hometown – as a DJ, media professional, and activist. “Rave is my utopia,” she says. “Nowhere else do people meet on such equal footing as at 6 a.m. on the dancefloor.”
Rosanna works tirelessly to ensure that electronic music remains a boundless space for connection: through her radio shows (formerly the electronic music special on Swiss Radio, now the “Swiss Selection” on German station sunshine live), her advocacy for more diversity in nightlife (for example, the series “Call me DJ!” about women in techno for ARD), and especially through her DJ sets, which successfully defy all categorization. “I don’t like rigid genre boundaries,” she says. “I play Alice-in-Wonderland-bubble-funk-techno!”
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