Daniel Anker

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Daniel Anker (born September 17, 1954 in Schaffhausen ) is a Swiss journalist and author of mountain books and alpine guides from Switzerland.

Daniel Anker (2009)

Life

Daniel Anker completed his studies in Swiss history at the University of Bern with a thesis on the Swiss Alpine Club and works as a freelance travel journalist and mountain journalist. The great-great-nephew of the painter Albert Anker lives with his family in Bern . As a mountaineer , he went on classic tours in the Alps; today mainly mountain hikes and ski tours.

Journalism

Anker is the author of several ski touring, hiking and cycling guides for many regions of Switzerland as well as for Lac Léman , Côte d'Azur , Languedoc-Roussillon and California . For AS Verlag in Zurich , he publishes mountain monographs on outstanding peaks in the Alps, including the Eiger , Jungfrau , Mönch , Finsteraarhorn , Piz Bernina , Bietschhorn and Monte Rosa . In addition to working for newspapers and magazines such as Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Outdoor Guide or Die Alpen (Swiss Alpine Club), he is a reviewer for the Swiss Library Service SBD and the author of a weekly book review on alpine literature, “Ankers Buch der Woche”.

Memberships

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Jungfrau - the magic mountain of men , AS Verlag , Zurich 1996
  • Finsteraarhorn - the lonely top , AS Verlag, Zurich 1997
  • Eiger - the vertical arena , AS Verlag, Zurich 1998
  • Piz Bernina - King of the Eastern Alps , AS Verlag, Zurich 1999
  • Titlis - Playground of Switzerland , AS Verlag, Zurich 2001
  • Mönch - center of the triumvirate , AS Verlag, Zurich 2002
  • Piz Palü - Dreiklang in Fels und Eis , AS Verlag, Zurich 2003 (with Hans Philipp)
  • Bietschhorn - Legacy of the Alpinists , AS Verlag, Zurich 2004 (with Marco Volken )
  • Monte Rosa - Queen of the Alps , AS Verlag, Zurich 2009 (with Marco Volken)
  • Weisshorn - the diamond of the Valais , AS Verlag, Zurich 2011 (with Marco Volken)
  • Dom & Täschhorn - Krone der Mischabel , AS Verlag, Zurich 2012 (with Marco Volken and Caroline Fink)
  • Above instead of below. The Swiss Alpine Club and the politics, society and ideology of the mountains . Unpublished licentiate thesis, University of Bern 1986
  • Corti drama. Death and Rescue on the Eiger 1957-1961 , AS Verlag, Zurich 2007 (with Rainer Rettner)
  • Berner Oberland West , Rother hiking guide, Munich 1994
  • Berner Oberland Ost , Rother hiking guide, Munich 1995
  • Côte d'Azur, Rother hiking guide , Munich 1998
  • Gruyère - Diablerets. Freiburg and Vaud Alps , Rother hiking guide, Munich 2006 (with Ralph Schnegg)
  • Languedoc - Roussillon, Rother hiking guide , Munich 2007 (with Jacques Maubé)
  • Bernese Oberland. 50 tours between the Eigerwand and Emmental , Rother Wanderbuch, Munich 2009
  • Via ferrata in Switzerland , AT Verlag, Aarau / SAC Verlag, Bern 2010 (with Eugen E. Hüsler)
  • Ski touring Bernese Alps East. Hohgant to Aletschhorn , SAC Verlag, Bern 2004 (with Ralph Schnegg)
  • Ski touring Bernese Alps West. Gantrisch to Wildhorn , SAC Verlag, Bern 2006 (with Ralph Schnegg)
  • Ski tours in the Freiburg and Vaudois Alps. La Berra to Dent de Morcles , SAC Verlag, Bern 2008 (with Ralph Schnegg)
  • Bernese Oberland , Rother ski guide, Munich 2008
  • As editor: Helvetia Club. 150 years of the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC). SAC-Verlag, 2013.
  • Around Bern , Rother hiking guide, Munich 2013
  • Alpine hiking / summit destinations Freiburg , SAC Verlag, Bern 2014 (with Manuel Haas).
  • As editor: Matterhorn - Mountain of Mountains . AS Verlag, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-906055-30-5 .
  • Emmental with Oberaargau and Entlebuch , Rother hiking guide, Munich 2015
  • Summit destinations in Ticino. 88 hikes between Gotthard and Generoso , Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2017 (with Thomas Bachmann)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Andiel: A traditional Swiss institution. In: Tages-Anzeiger from 18./19. April 2013
personal data
SURNAME Anchor, daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaffhausen