Felix E. Muller

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Felix E. Müller (born May 3, 1951 in Winterthur ) is a Swiss journalist and former handball player . From March 2002 to the end of September 2017 he was editor-in-chief of NZZ am Sonntag and a member of the extended management team of the NZZ media group .

Life

After graduating from the Rychenberg grammar school in Winterthur, Müller studied German, musicology and mathematics at the University of Zurich and graduated in 1976 with a licentiate. In 1978 he was with a dissertation on newer Swiss literature doctorate . From 1973 to 1978 he worked as a teacher at high schools in Winterthur and Zurich.

As a handball player, Müller played with Yellow Winterthur in the Swiss national handball league from 1972 to 1977 .

In 1978 he began his journalistic career as an editor at Züri Leu in Zurich, where he became deputy editor-in-chief in 1981. After Jean Frey AG sold the newspaper to Tamedia and subsequently hired it in 1982, Müller switched to Weltwoche . There he was cultural editor, head of the domestic department, USA correspondent in Washington, deputy editor-in-chief and from 1996 to 1997 he was a senior editor. i. active. In 1997 he moved to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , where he was initially an author, then from 2000 head of the “City and Canton of Zurich” department. In 2001 he did full-time concept work for the NZZ am Sonntag , of which he became editor-in-chief when it was launched in March 2002. Since 2015 he has also been Head of Magazine at NZZ and a member of the management board of the NZZ media group.

In 1984 he received the award for cultural merit of the canton of Zurich for a biography and for contributing to the complete edition of the works of Albin Zollinger . In 2016 he was awarded the Zurich Journalist Prize for his complete work. From 1986 to 1988 he was a member of the literature commission of the city of Zurich , from 2005 to 2016 guild master of the Fluntern guild . Since 2006 he has been President of the Board of Trustees of the Free Evangelical School Zurich.

He and his wife became an eyewitness to the 1997 attack in Luxor , Egypt , in which several dozen foreign tourists were killed by Islamists .

Felix E. Müller is married to Franziska Widmer. He has three grown daughters and lives in Zurich.

Works

  • Biography Albin Zollinger. With image documents and materials. In: Zollinger, Albin: Gesammelte Werke, Volume 1. Artemis, Zurich / Munich 1981, ISBN 3-7608-0561-2 .
  • (together with others): Georg Schoeck (Ed.): Meinrad Inglin . Collected works in ten volumes. Ammann, Zurich 1987–1991, 2001, ISBN 978-3-25010088-1 .
  • Luxor Massacre: Eyewitness Report and Analysis. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-8582-3750-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luzi Bernet becomes editor-in-chief of “NZZ am Sonntag”. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. May 30, 2017, accessed May 31, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Felix E. Müller: The Luxor massacre shocked Switzerland In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of November 11, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Felix E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and former handball player
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur