Denise Schmid

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Denise Schmid (born January 23, 1965 in Zurich ) is a Swiss historian , author and publisher .

Life

Schmid was born as Denise Czebe in Zurich in 1965. Her German mother Waltraut Neumann came to Switzerland in 1958, her father Sandor Czebe in 1956 as a refugee during the Hungarian Revolution . Denise Schmid studied history and English at the University of Zurich and graduated in 1994 with a thesis on statelessness in the Weimar Republic . This was followed by training in communication in Munich and working in two large international companies as an editor and media spokesperson. In 2001 she founded Denise Schmid Communications, a corporate publishing agency in Zurich, which she ran until 2016. She also worked as a guest lecturer at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). In 2016 she became co-owner and publisher of Hier und Jetzt, a publishing house for culture and history in Baden. She runs the company together with the historian Bruno Meier . The Zurich University Association, founded in 1883, elected Denise Schmid as its first female president in 2013 after 130 years. The oldest and largest alumni organization of the University of Zurich, renamed the Zurich University Association in 2000, merged with the umbrella organization Alumni UZH in 2017, with Schmid playing a key role. From 2017 to 2018 she was Co-President of the newly founded UZH Alumni.

Honor

  • 2019: Honorary Senator of the University of Zurich

Publications

  • with Peter Stamm and Markus Bühler (photography): The long way to Kaltbach - from caves, cheese makers, cows and farmers. Zurich 2011.
  • with Reto Wilhelm and Monika Merkl: This is opera. The Zurich Opera House in the Pereira era 1991–2012. Zurich 2012.
  • Woman's sacred duty. Richard Wagner's image of women. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, August 17, 2013.
  • Davos 1935 - a lot of speed, a lot of sport, a lot of pragmatism. In: Discover, Remember, Tell. Zurich 2015.
  • The world of men and women in 1935. In: Davos Revue, December 2015.
  • Ruth Gattiker. Cardiac anesthesia pioneer. Baden 2016.
  • Life in the monastery - long tradition, slow change. In: Susann Kälin-Bosshard: Im Fahr. The nuns tell from their lives. Baden 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.hierundjetzt.ch/de/verlag/team/
  2. ↑ https://www.news.uzh.ch/de/articles/2013/erstmals-eine-praesidentin-fuer-den-zuniv.html
  3. ↑ https://www.uzh.ch/cmsssl/de/about/portrait/awards/hc/2019/ehrensenatorin-2.html
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Denise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian, publisher and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich