Christine Kopp

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Christine Kopp

Christine Kopp (born January 15, 1967 in Bern ) is a Swiss author , mountaineer , alpine journalist and translator .

Life

Christine Kopp grew up in Bern . After completing her high school diploma and language studies in Italy, she acquired a diploma as a translator for French, Italian and English at the Zurich School of Interpreters and Translators.

Since 1991 she has been working as a freelance translator, author, editor, journalist and film writer specializing in alpinism and tourism. She has translated books by Riccardo Cassin , Walter Bonatti and Erhard Loretan into German, among others .

From 1994 to 2007 she was editor of the Alpinismus pages of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . She realized various film and book projects with mountaineers Thomas Ulrich and Stephan Siegrist and cameraman Christoph Frutiger. She is an active mountaineer (sport and ice climbing, mountaineering and ski touring, trekking) and has participated in several expeditions, including a. to Denali and Mount Blackburn in Alaska .

Christine Kopp lives in Pasturo on Lake Como and in Bern.

Books

  • Journeys to Adventure , Weber Verlag, Thun 2004. With Thomas Ulrich .
  • Horizont Nord , self-published, 2008. With Thomas Ulrich.
  • Key posts , self-published, 2009.
  • Betsy Berg. 41 stories from mountains and valleys . With illustrations by Esther Angst. Self-published, 2012.

Translations (selection)

  • Jean Ammann / Erhard Loretan: Falling for the Mountains , Paulusverlag, Freiburg 1996.
  • Erhard Loretan: Himalaya. Views , Paulusverlag, 1998.
  • Walter Bonatti: Mountains of my Life , AS Verlag , Zurich 2000.
  • Riccardo Cassin: First on the Rope , AS Verlag, 2003.
  • Simon Kehrer / Walter Nones: Teufelswand , Malik / Piper Verlag , Munich 2010.

Movies

  • Cerro Torre. They don't want to understand him ... , documentation of an unsuccessful expedition on Cerro Torre, 2002. With Christoph Frutiger and Thomas Ulrich.
  • Adrian Frutiger: The man of black and white , portrait of the type designer Adrian Frutiger , 2004. With Christoph Frutiger.
  • Lightning Strike - Arwa Tower , documentation of an expedition in the Garhwal Himalaya, 2008. With Christoph Frutiger and Stephan Siegrist.

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personal data
SURNAME Kopp, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss author, mountaineer, alpine journalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 15th January 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern