Enno Schmidt

Enno Schmidt 2016

Enno Schmidt at the event: “Long Night of Basic Income”, Theater Basel, 2016

Enno Schmidt (born November 14, 1958 in Osnabrück ) is a German artist and activist for the unconditional basic income . He is a co-founder of the Basic Income Initiative in Switzerland and lives in Basel .

Life

Enno Schmidt grew up in Osnabrück and studied painting at the Städelschule , the Academy of Fine Arts in Frankfurt am Main. Solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad, Frankfurt Art Prize of the Lions Club.

In 1990 he brought about an exemplary merging of art and business with the start-up sculpture “Aktion Baumkreuz” and, together with entrepreneurs and artists, founded the business and art company - expanded gGmbH, of which he was managing partner until 1996. From 2000 Enno Schmidt was involved in the development of the Social Sculpture course at Oxford Brookes University and in the development of the Future Foundation for Social Life in the trust office of the GLS Bank in Bochum. At the Interfacultative Institute for Entrepreneurship at the University of Karlsruhe , Götz Werner's chair , he carried out a teaching assignment based on his own concept from 2005 to 2007.

In 2006, Enno Schmidt founded the Basic Income Switzerland initiative together with the entrepreneur Daniel Häni in Basel . His film “Basic Income - A Cultural Impulse”, which he brought out together with Daniel Häni, reached over a million viewers and was translated into 20 languages. In October 2013, the initiative was able to submit 126,000 signatures for a referendum on the introduction of the unconditional basic income in Switzerland in Bern, which led to the national referendum on June 5, 2016. The campaign and actions of the Basic Income Initiative received worldwide media coverage and stimulated discussion in many countries. Enno Schmidt works in the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) and is internationally active as a source of ideas and lecturer.

Since July 2019, Enno Schmidt has been a research assistant at the newly established Götz Werner Professorship for Economic Policy and Theory of Order at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg . There he is responsible for networking and public awareness of basic income research and supports the establishment of the interdisciplinary Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies (FRIBIS).

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions

1990: "The Pleasures within Distances", Gallery WIDOW, Sydney
1994: Frankfurt Prize Winner, Galerie ak, Frankfurt / M
1998: "8x8x8", Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt / M
1999: “On Paper”, Stalke Galerie, Copenhagen
2000: "Alles 700", Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt / M
2000: "Seventy in two thousend on the road to Meikle Seggie", Stanley Picker Gallery, London
2003: “The Economy of Art”, Project Center for Contemporary Art, Dresden
2005: "Product and Vision", art factory at Flutgraben, Berlin

Solo exhibitions

1990: "Cure", Sander Gallery, Kassel
1990: “State of the art”, Heine factory, Offenbach am Main
1993: "Werrabrücke", Galerie Strauss and Adamopoulos, Frankfurt / M
1995: "Kronen", Galerie Strauss and Adamopoulos, Frankfurt / M
1998: “Company observation”, Berger Church, Düsseldorf
2000: "Oxford Series", The Arena, Oxford

Filmography

Films (selection)

2008: Basic Income - a cultural impulse
2009: We make democracy - basic income in the Bundestag
2012: votes on the basic income
2012: Views of a Monk
2012: Culture is the basis of the economy
2012: Basic income in the focus of science
2013: Dance into May
2013: Golden October
2013: Swiss record collecting
2014: Income and Health
2014: Pay for it
2015: Unconditional Basic Income in China

Video calls

2011: Does the basic income make you lazy? with Theo Wehner, Basel
2012: Arguments against the unconditional basic income with Sascha Liebermann, Basel
2012: We don't need any incentives with Marina Weisband , Berlin
2012: Hartz IV breaks the Basic Law with Ralph Boes, Basel
2012: There can be no shortage of money with Werner Landwehr, GLS Bank, Berlin

Lectures (interviews)

Lectures

2009: Basic Income + Crisis Management Lecture by Enno Schmidt at Scala, Basel
2012 What is economy? What is income Enno Schmidt on the podium with the writer Adolf Muschg at the book launch “The Liberation of Switzerland”, Theater am Neumarkt, Zurich
2013: Unconditional basic income now. Contribution to Wahlweise, Berlin
2014: Core ideas on basic income Lecture in the Stadtcasino, Basel
2016: Unconditionality - the cultural dimension of the basic income Lecture at the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, Zurich
2016: “Basic Income from A to Z” Contributions to the book launch, with Albert Wenger on the podium in the Zunfthaus zur Meisen, Zurich
2017: Enno Schmidt explains the idea of the BGE party ( YouTube video, April 26, 2017)

Fonts

Books

1994, Enno Schmidt, Klaus Wolbert (eds.): Idea Enterprise Economy and Art - extended discussion forum Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt
2016, Enno Schmidt, Daniel Straub and Christian Müller (co. Authors): Basic Income from A to Z , Limmat Verlag, Zurich. ISBN 978-3-85791-806-3

items

Conference proceedings, 2006: “Symposium Basic Income: unconditionally” - The justification of the basic income from art , University of Karlsruhe
Men's newspaper, 2011: Unconditional basic income?
Grundeinkommen.ch, 2015: An income to fight the Mafia

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Freiburg Institute for Research on Basic Income. Retrieved March 23, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schmidt, Enno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist and social activist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 14, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	Osnabrück

[1] Freiburg Institute for Research on Basic Income. Retrieved March 23, 2020 .