Dennis Schwabenland lives between Bern and Berlin. He completed his acting training at the Bern University of the Arts (HKB) in 2008 with a diploma and the BEST award for outstanding graduates of all HKB degree programmes. Winner of the 2009 Premio newcomer award for theatre and dance (director, Woyzeckmaschine) and the 2016 Bern Film Prize (co-director, the holycoaster s(HIT) circus). In 2023 he completed the CAS Documentary Film at the HKB. He is the artistic co-director of the Bernese theatre group PENG! Palast and works as an actor or director with various other theatre companies: BUES/MEZGER/SCHWABENLAND, Kämpf/Urweider (including Sit so guet, s.v.p. - The Musical), Time for Change, Time to Move, Club 111 or Weltalm.

In 2020 he founded the theatre company dennis schwabenland: thecodes. With this company, he is realising the theatre project ‘Gilgamesh Origin’ in June 2022, together with the Al Kasaba Theatre, Ramallah-Palestine and the Grosse Halle Bern. In 2021, he celebrated the world premiere of ‘Brave New Life’ at the Theater Orchester Biel-Solothurn (together with the Schlachthaus Theater Bern, Theater Winkelwiese Zurich and Kleintheater Luzern).

His theatre projects have toured in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Palestine & Israel, the Netherlands, China & Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand.

In 2024, Schwabenland worked as a political and cultural journalist at Radio Bern in RaBe Info - the news and background magazine.