Bänz Friedli

This article describes the author and cabaret artist, for the painter and doctor see under Bendicht Friedli

Bänz Friedli (2015)

Bänz Friedli (* 1965 in Bern as Bendicht Friedli ) is a Swiss author , cabaret artist and language artist . He writes columns and books, creates satirical radio reports and appears in German-speaking Switzerland as a stage artist in Bernese dialect, including in 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2019 at the Arosa Humor Festival . He is known for his witticism, his parodic observations and for the fact that he always includes current political issues.

He was a longtime journalist and radio host; he still publishes essays and reports on pop music. Friedli has worked on the script and direction of two documentaries so far and is artistic director of the Arosa dialect festival, which has been taking place since 2017 . His first children's book was published in the same year.

Life

Friedli, the grandson of mathematician Werner Friedli , grew up in a family of teachers in Uettligen near Bern and attended the Neufeld grammar school in Bern . In 1985 Friedli was elected to the municipal council of Wohlen BE as the youngest politician in Switzerland at the time for the green citizens' initiative "Open List" , where he headed the youth and culture department for a four-year term in the executive branch.

From 1983 to 2005 he worked for the press, radio and TV in the fields of sport and popular culture. From 1984 to 1992 he worked for Radio Förderband in Bern, where he designed the weekly program “Capitan Uncino” about Italian music, moderated news programs and worked as a sports reporter. From 1986 he was deputy broadcasting director and in particular was responsible for the station's cultural evening program. In 1990 Friedli was a co-founder of the Bern press office and the TV news magazine 10vor10 . His music and sports reports have appeared in magazines and newspapers such as Das Magazin , Rolling Stone , Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin , La Repubblica , Sportmagazin and Die Welt . From 1995 to 2005 he was an editor at the Swiss news magazine Facts . He made a name for himself in particular as a columnist . From 1985 to 1993 Friedli wrote “Everyday life in Bern” in the daily newspaper Der Bund . His “Commuter Rules” in 20 minutes found a large readership from 2000 to 2004, and from 2005 to the end of November 2019 it could be read every week in Migros magazine . For ten years his column “Der Hausmann” dealt with family topics, after which it appeared with a free range of topics under the title “Bänz Friedli”. Friedli is also a columnist for “gazette”, BLS AG's customer magazine . Since 2001 he has given his columns in readings, including in the "Night of Columnists" with Viktor Giacobbo , Linus Reichlin , Michèle Roten , Gisela Widmer and others, later solo. From this activity a cabaret program developed for the first time in 2011. He also writes essays and articles for the NZZ am Sonntag and speaks regularly in the Saturday satire Zytlupe on Radio SRF 1 . Since 2016, he has hosted the live show "Face Slaps" from the Kleintheater Luzern twice a year for the same broadcaster . In 2006 Friedli was co-curator of the exhibition “Small number, big impact - Swiss immigration to the US” on Ellis Island , New York City .

From 2008 to 2011 Friedli worked with the director Bernhard Giger on the book and documentary Herz im Emmental and in 2016 together with the TV journalist Barbara Frauchiger on the film Werner Aeschbacher breaks up - an Emmentaler Örgeler in Louisiana . He has been a member of the jury of the Italian Premio Tenco music award since 1994 and was a member of the Swiss Word of the Year jury from 2004 to 2016 . In 2017 his first children 's book Machs wie Abby, Sascha! This resulted in a series of radio plays for Radio SRF 1 in 2019 .

Friedli is known for his word games , his witticism and his parodies . The jury of the Salzburger Stier praised him as "critically attached to his homeland, sympathetic philosophical and always reliably funny". Cabaret doyen Emil Steinberger called Friedli “a refreshment of the blood for Swiss cabaret” and “a cultural benefit”.

Friedli is married, has two grown children and lives in Zurich .

Awards

• 2015: Salzburg bull
• 2016: Premio Arpino Città di Cicerone

Works

Stage programs

• Sy no question? , 2011–2014, 250 performances
• Gömmer Starbucks? Bänz Friedli makes sense of the youth , 2013–2016, 220 performances
• Ke joke! Bänz Friedli wins time , 2016–2018, around 230 performances
• Retour - Breuer and Friedli have been traveling by train with Thomas C. Breuer since 2017
• What would Elvis say? , since 2019

Sound carrier

• The househusband. Live in Miller's Studio . Tudor, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-03776-478-7 .
• Sy no question? (Still questions) Live at City-Chäller . Tudor, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-03776-495-4 .
• Gömmer Starbucks? (Shall we go Starbucks?) . Merian , Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-85616-691-5 .
• Ke joke! Bänz Friedli wins time, live in the Hechtplatz theater . Merian, Basel 2017, ISBN 978-3-85616-826-1 .
• What would Elvis say? Live in the cellar stage in St. Gallen . Hagenbuch / Merian, Zurich and Basel 2019, ISBN 978-3-85616-909-1 .
• with Katja Alves , Gion Cavelty , Christoph Schuler and others: The Night of the Columnists live in Miller's Studio . RecRec, Zurich 2003.
• with Simon Enzler , Stefanie Grob and Thomas C. Breuer : Zytlue live! Merian, Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-85616-606-9 .
• with Alfred Dorfer , Franz Hohler , Gisela Widmer and others: Zytlupe - radio satire live! Merian, Basel 2016, ISBN 978-3-85616-822-3 .

DVDs

• Sy no question? Live 2014 . Hagenbuch, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-85616-658-8 .
• Gömmer Starbucks? Live in the Casinotheater Winterthur . Hagenbuch / Merian, Zurich and Basel 2015, ISBN 978-3-85616-680-9 .
• Ke joke! Bänz Friedli gains time. Live at the Arosa Humor Festival 2016 . Hagenbuch / Merian, Zurich and Basel, 2017, ISBN 978-3-85616-848-3 .
• What would Elvis say? Live in the "small theater" in Lucerne . Hagenbuch / Merian, Zurich and Basel 2019, ISBN 978-3-85616-910-7 .

Books

• I commute, therefore I am . Huber , Frauenfeld 2003, ISBN 3-9522920-0-1 (anniversary edition. Updated until 2010. Huber, Frauenfeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-7193-1550-4 )
• The househusband. Columns from the Migros magazine . Hagenbuch 2007, ISBN 978-3-9522920-2-0 .
• Do you find me fat News from the househusband . Huber, Frauenfeld and Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7193-1528-3 .
• If they didn't have me. The househusband is thrown through . Orell Füssli, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-280-05446-8 .
• with Bernhard Giger : Heart in the Emmental. About living with a myth. Limmat , Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-85791-648-9 .
• The complete househusband. Slipcase with three books , Orell Füssli, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-280-05504-5 .
• There are days when everyone is blue and speaks Chinese , the Hausmann columns 2011–2015, Knapp, Olten 2015, ISBN 978-3-906311-04-3 .
• And it never goes away, railway stories , with a foreword by Peter Bichsel , Knapp, Olten 2015, ISBN 978-3-906311-01-2 .
• Do like Abby, Sascha! Baeschlin, Glarus and Ziegelbrücke 2017, ISBN 978-3-85546-320-6 .
• It is forbidden to walk across the water , Knapp, Olten 2018, ISBN 978-3-906311-45-6 .
• The whale in the lake, new stories on the go , Knapp, Olten 2020, ISBN 978-3-906311-70-8 .

Collaboration on books

• with Max Küng , Thomas Widmer and other authors: The Book of Columnists . Published by Hans Georg Hildebrandt , Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-0344-0020-9 .
• with Chris von Rohr : Bananenflanke (preface, editing). Steinblatt Verlag, Solothurn 2003, ISBN 3-9520081-1-7 .
• with Doris Knecht , Michèle Roten and other authors: The second book of the columnists . Published by Hans Georg Hildebrandt , Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-0344-0240-6 .
• with Susanne Altmann , Kathrin Rieder and Simone Zaugg : street level Simplon 2003: an art project incorporation the public space . Institute for Modern Art , Nuremberg 2004, ISBN 3-936711-41-0 .
• with Bruno Abegg , Barbara Lüthi and others: Small Number - Big Impact, swiss immigration to the USA . NZZ Libro , Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-03823-259-9 .
• with Stefan Jermann , Franz Treichler and others: Truce Diaries - The Young Gods . Truce, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-033-00957-3 .
• with Mämä Sykora , André Grieder and others: Linksfüsser - 30 years of Alternative Football League in Zurich . Elster Verlag, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-907668-61-0 .
• with Katja Alves and others: Kick 'n' Rush - the Bible. Kick 'n' Rush fan club . Lucerne 2008.
• with Sibylle Berg and other authors: Switzerland of the future - future of Switzerland: literary sketches for the series with DRS 1 i d'Zuekunft . Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-03823-637-5 .
• with Tinu Heiniger : Mueterland - Home in Stories (foreword, editing). Faro Verlag, Lenzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-03781-024-8 .
• with Ugo Sani , Balts Nill and Hektor Leibundgut : L'Italia con gli occhi aperti. Italy with open eyes. Photographs 1967–2009 . Stämpfli , Bern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7272-1143-0 .
• with Bernhard Giger and Marco Meier : Reto Camenisch portraits . Edition Stephan Witschi, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-9523619-7-9 .
• with Katja Walder : Crazy! On the train with Katja Walder: Commuter stories (preface). Limmat, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-85791-692-2 .
• with Simone Vock and Irena Zweifel Schiesser : The country needs fathers! Baeschlin, Glarus 2012, ISBN 978-3-85546-248-3 .
• with Wolfgang Bortlik , Rolf Lappert , Pedro Lenz , Sandra Hughes and others: The increase in opportunities was balanced (story: "Winter in Boston") . Knapp, Olten 2012, ISBN 978-3-905848-60-1 .
• with Martin Lehmann : But hello! Columns (preface). Cosmos, Muri 2014, ISBN 978-3-305-00377-8 .
• with Frölein Da Capo : Episödäli (preface). Knapp, Olten 2015, ISBN 978-3-906311-12-8 .
• with Samuel Mumenthaler , Dänu Siegrist , Bernhard Giger , Polo Hofer and others: Last island before the motorway - Peter Burkhart's mill Hunziken . Zytglogge, Basel 2015, ISBN 978-3-7296-0904-4 .
• with Thomas Meyer , Peter Schneider and others: Work in progress , published by the Swiss Insurance Association SIA, Zurich 2015.
• with Irene Graf : Schmucktruckli - Es Dotze Wiehnachtsgschichte (preface, proofreading). MundArt Verlag, Adelboden 2017, ISBN 978-3-9523715-5-8 .
• with Geri Stocker : Swiss America, American Switzerland . Mondberg, Blauen 2017, ISBN 978-3-906063-14-0 .
• with Bernhard Giger , Pedro Lenz and Klaus Zaugg : Where the tram doesn't go, we're at home - the YB-Meisterbuch 2018 (publisher, author). Knapp, Olten 2018, ISBN 978-3-906311-48-7 .
• with Christof Gertsch , Ursina Haller , Mikael Krogerus and other co-editors: N ° 1 - the best sports magazine in the world . 2018.
• with Hanspeter Müller-Drossaart , Brigitte Schär , Sabina Altermatt and others: On the way - 25 good-trip stories (story "And Lena thinks about the Indian Summer") . VBG, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-033-07104-9 .
• with Nele Pollatschek , Jens Nielsen , Thomas C. Breuer and others: Rottweiler encounter 2019 - anthology of the German-Swiss authors' meeting (article “I came here not because of you, Rottweil”). Cultural Office Rottweil / Pro Helvetia, 2019.

Movie

• with Bernhard Giger : Heart in the Emmental . Documentary, 95 minutes, Carac / Frenetic Films, Bern and Zurich 2011.
• with Barbara Frauchiger : Werner Aeschbacher is leaving - an Emmentaler Örgeler in Louisiana . Documentary, 64 minutes, SRF, Zurich 2016.

Web links

• Web presence of Bänz Friedli
• Literature by and about Bänz Friedli in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ly Vuong: Only a psychotherapist can help: Bänz Friedli back in Schlieren. Limmattaler Zeitung , December 6, 2017, accessed on February 14, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Markus Dütschler: Dossier: Where I'm from - "Läck, it's nice," says Friedli today. Der Bund , October 8, 2009, accessed on February 14, 2018 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Thomas Widmer: The Bänz is everywhere . In: Tages-Anzeiger . December 5, 2014, p. 25 .
4. ↑ Migros Magazin: Bänz Friedli's column is discontinued. In: persoenlich.com . September 27, 2019, accessed September 28, 2019 . 
5. ↑ BLS: Column - Bänz Friedli - BLS AG. June 21, 2018, accessed June 3, 2019 . 
6. ↑ "Small Number - Big Impact". swissinfo , July 30, 2006, accessed February 15, 2018 . 
7. ^ Bänz Friedli receives the Salzburg Bull Cabaret Prize. SRF , December 4, 2014, accessed on February 14, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Markus Schneider: The comedy of life . In: Swiss family . tape 38 , 2016, p. 16 .
9. ↑ Bänz Friedli. Bänz Friedli, accessed on February 14, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Prize Winner 2015. Salzburger Stier , accessed on February 14, 2018 . 
11. ↑ "That's right, that's how it is!" Swiss Insurance Association SIA, accessed on February 14, 2018 .