Daniel Häni

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Daniel Häni in Berlin 2013

Daniel Häni (* 1966 in Bern ) is a Swiss entrepreneur and advocate of an unconditional basic income . He calls himself a "cultural space creator".

Daniel Häni grew up in Mühleberg near Bern. After his training as a surveyor, which came about at the instigation of his parents and a career advisor, he started his first project as a taxi driver in Basel with friends in 1987 , a “thought bank”, a “bank for thoughts” and “interest thoughts”. Anyone could open an account there by writing a thought on an index card. Every thought was recorded in a keyword register. If someone else came across a stimulating thought while flipping through the register, they would create another thought. In this way the original idea threw off “interest”. Within a few months, some thoughts threw off dozens of interest thoughts. "Thinking is the main thing", not money, said Häni at the time.

In 1996 a foundation noticed him and paid him around 20,000 euros for a year without any conditions. Häni started using vacant buildings, including a parking garage, a brewery and a villa. In 1999 he gained the trust of the then head of the Credit Suisse bank , Lukas Mühlemann, to use the historical building of the Schweizerische Volksbank in Gerbergasse, which had been unused for two years , and founded the coffeehouse "unternehmen mitte "with a few friends, of which he has been a managing partner since then is. The financing of six million euros came from a foundation that supports cultural projects.

In 2006, Häni founded the “ Basic Income Initiative ” with the artist Enno Schmidt . In 2008 they released the film “Basic Income - A Culture Impulse”, which reached around one million viewers.

In 2012, Häni and others launched the Swiss popular initiative “For an unconditional basic income”. It was submitted to the Swiss Federal Chancellery on October 4, 2013 as part of a performance that received international attention. This made Switzerland the first country to vote on an unconditional basic income. On June 5, 2016, 23.1% of the nationwide approved the bill.

Movie

  • Daniel Häni, Enno Schmidt: Basic Income - a cultural impulse. Basel 2008.

Fonts

  • Daniel Häni, Philip Kovce : What would you work if your income were provided? Basic Income Manifesto. Ecowin Verlag, Salzburg 2017. ISBN 978-3-7110-0120-7 .
  • Daniel Häni, Philip Kovce : What is missing when everything is there? Why the unconditional basic income asks the right questions. Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich 2015. ISBN 978-3-280-05592-2 .
  • Daniel Häni, Mona Stefan Dähler, Stefan Heinrich Ebner, Ronald Wüthrich (eds.): Melting limit. On dealing with cultural matters in a humanistic Swiss city. +/- Verlag, Basel and La Chaux-de-Fonds 1993. ISBN 3-907571-00-2 .
  • Daniel Häni, Alex Silber (ed.): Werkraum Schlotterbeck. In the pulse of the 90s. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 1993. ISBN 3-85616-055-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philip Kovce: What moves Daniel Häni ?: The thought collector . In: The time . No. 24/2013 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Philip Kovce: What moves Daniel Häni ?: The thought collector . In: The time . No. 24/2013 ( online ).
  3. ↑ http://www.mitte.ch/
  4. ↑ http://www.brandeins.de/archiv/2008/liebe/wer-nicht-muss-der-kann/
  5. ↑ Philip Kovce: What moves Daniel Häni ?: The thought collector . In: The time . No. 24/2013 ( online ).
  6. ↑ http://www.grundeinkommen.ch/
  7. ↑ http://grundeinkommen.tv/grundeinkommen-ein-kulturimpuls-2/
  8. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unternimm-die-zukunft.de
  9. ↑ Archive link ( memento of the original from October 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bedingungslos.ch
  10. ↑ Philip Kovce: Little by little. In: FAZ.net . October 6, 2013, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  11. ↑ A mountain Fünfräppler on the Bundesplatz. In: nzz.ch. October 4, 2013, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Florian Diekmann: Basic income in Switzerland: What a person needs to live, he should get . In: Spiegel Online . January 28, 2016, accessed June 10, 2018 .
  13. ↑ https://www.grundeinkommen.ch/
personal data
SURNAME Häni, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern