The plans were long secret. Giovanni Netzer, artistic director of the Origen theatre festival, kept mum about the plans for a tower in Mulegns. He wants to give the dying village new life with cultural events. This has already been a success in the nearby village of Riom, where a theatre barn, a castle resurrected with a variable stage and the Red Theatre Tower at the Julier Pass is attracting arts fans from all over Switzerland. The same will now happen in Mulegns. In the 19th century, this forgotten place was a waystage for travellers. Three historically valuable structures are witnesses from that time; they are also being painstakingly refurbished by the Origen cultural institution and used as a hotel as well as for cultural purposes.