Dominik Landwehr

Dominik Landwehr (2016)

Dominik Landwehr (* 1958 in Zurich ) is a Swiss journalist , author , media and cultural worker . From 1998 to 2019 he was head of the Pop & New Media department at Migros Culture Percentage in Zurich.

Life

Dominik Landwehr (right) as moderator of a panel discussion

After graduating from high school, Dominik Landwehr studied German and cultural studies. He finished his studies in 1983 with the licensed thesis Ludwig Lavater's Ghost Book of 1569 in the context of contemporary popular literature from Zurich with Rudolf Schenda . He then worked as an editor and journalist for television, radio and print media. His favorite subjects were new media , computer culture and pop music . Between 1988 and 1991 he was a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) with missions in Pakistan, Thailand and Romania. In 2007 he received his doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Baselwith the work Mythos Enigma : The encryption machine as a collector's and media object . From 1998 to mid-2019 he was head of the “Pop and New Media” department at Migros Culture Percentage, where he was the editor of Edition Digital Culture and other publications. Landwehr was responsible, among other things, for the digitalbrainstorming internet platform , the bugnplay youth competition and the “digital culture” funding program.

Dominik Landwehr has been a publicist and consultant in the field of digitization, culture and the history of technology since summer 2019. Landwehr lives in Winterthur and is married to Susanne Landwehr-Sigg.

Works

• Ludwig Lavater (1527-1586 ). In: Rudolf Schenda and Hans ten Doornkaat: legend researcher and legend collector in Switzerland. Studies on the production of popular history and stories from the early 16th to the 20th centuries. Stuttgart and Bern 1988. pp. 121-137.
• with Matthias Zehnder : Computer toys. A guide to the electronic playground. Vogt-Schild Verlag, Solothurn 1998, ISBN 3-85962-113-0 .
• Myth Enigma: The cipher machine as a collector's and media object. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-8394-0893-3 ( urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2016081510303 ).
• with Hedy Graber , Veronika Sellier: Culture digital: terms, backgrounds, examples. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2011, ISBN 978-3-85616-530-7 .
• with Verena Kuni: Home Made Bio Electronic Arts: Do-it-yourself: Microscopes, Sensors, Sonifications. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-85616-567-3 ( urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2013061808 ).
• Political Interventions. In: Edition Digital Culture 1 / Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-85616-609-0 ( urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-201403259143 ).
• Hacking. In: Edition Digital Culture. 2. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-85616-642-7 ( urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014101024381 ).
• Public domain. In: Edition Digital Culture. 3. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel, 2014, ISBN 978-3-85616-657-1 ( urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2015110304 ).
• with others: Time is now: Pop music in Switzerland today. Limmat Verlag, Zurich, 2016, ISBN 978-3-85791-817-9 .
• Digital kids. In: Edition Digital Culture. 4. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel, 2016, ISBN 978-3-85616-823-0 ( urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2016112944 ),
• Machines & Robots. In: Edition Digital Culture. 5. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel, 2018, ISBN 978-3-85616-855-1 .
• Virtual reality. In: Edition Digital Culture. 6. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel, 2019, ISBN 978-3-85616-887-2 .
• Media Art in Switzerland / Media Art in Switzerland. (with a foreword by Hedy Graber): Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel, 2018, ISBN 978-3-85616-867-4 .

Awards

The Edition Digital Culture book series, initiated and published by Landwehr and published by Christoph Merian Verlag Basel from 2014 to 2019 , was awarded the Prize for the Most Beautiful Books 2019 by the Federal Office of Culture in 2020 . The book series was designed by the award-winning graphic artists Ivan Sterzinger and Gregor Huber

Web links

Commons : Dominik Landwehr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dominik Landwehr's website
• Photos by Dominik Landwehr in the AV archive of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) / search by name.
• Dominik Landwehr's blog

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} biography on netzspannung.org , accessed on April 19, 2018.
2. ↑ Ludwig Lavater (1527–1586). Texts by Dominik Landwehr. Dominik Landwehr's website.
3. ↑ Landwehr: Myth Enigma. 2008, p. 4.
4. ↑ Biography on digitalbrainstorming.ch , accessed on April 19, 2018.
5. ↑ Biography on athenas.ch , accessed on April 19, 2018.
6. ↑ Biography on cryptomuseum.com , accessed April 19, 2018.
7. ↑ Landwehr: Myth Enigma. 2008, p. 11.
8. ^ Federal Office for Culture FOC: 19 most beautiful Swiss books awarded. Retrieved March 13, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Huber / Sterzinger. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .