Andreas Schwab (historian)

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Andreas Schwab (2017)

Andreas Schwab (born July 17, 1971 ) is a Swiss historian , cultural manager and author . He has been a member of the government of the Bremgarten bei Bern (SP ) community since 2012 and was elected mayor on December 1, 2019.

Life

Schwab studied history , economics and political science at the University of Bern and at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1992 to 1998 . From 1999 to 2002 he wrote his dissertation on the Monte Verità sanatorium at the University of Basel , which was published by Orell Füssli Verlag in 2003 under the title “Monte Verità - Sanatorium of Desire”. From 2003 to 2009 Schwab worked as an editor at the Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz in Bern.

Since 2003 he and his office Palma3 have been an independent curator of numerous special and permanent exhibitions on cultural-historical topics, including a. «The 68s. Short summer - long effect »at the Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main (2008),« Halftime. See the exhibition on midlife "in the Vögele Kultur Zentrum (2011)," differently. An exhibition about blind and visually impaired people »at the Zollikofen School for the Blind (2012),« The Utopia of the Shrewd. 40 years Longo maï ”(2013, traveling exhibition with nine stations),“ Writing frenzy. Fascination Inspiration ”in the Strauhof Zurich (2017),“ Le verità di una montagna ”in the Museo Casa Anatta on Monte Verità in Ascona (2017).

Since the autumn semester 2017 he has been a lecturer at the University of Friborg .

Fonts (selection)

  • Edited with Claudia Lafranchi: Searching for meaning and sunbathing. Experiments in art and life on Monte Verità. Zurich 2001.
  • Monte Verità - Sanatorium of Longing. Zurich 2003.
  • Rural cooperatives Longo maï. Pioneers of a lived utopia. Zurich 2013.
  • Edited with Mona De Weerdt: Monte Dada. Expressive dance and avant-garde. Bern 2017.
  • Edited with Magnus Wieland: Schreibrausch. The fascination of inspiration. The reader for the exhibition. Strauhof, Zurich 2017.
  • Anderberg (novel). Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-906276-58-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schwab, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian, politician, cultural manager and author
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1971