Hans Widmer (Author)

An urban bolo .

Hans Widmer (* 1947 ) is a Swiss author and philologist .

Life

Under the pseudonym P. M. (the most common initials in the Swiss telephone directory; mostly written in lower case: p. M. ) Widmer was best known for his anarchist and anti-capitalist social utopia bolo'bolo , published in 1983 .

In bolo'bolo , a bolo is an autonomous group of a few hundred ibus (people) who are united by their common interest in a certain “nima” (for example: mentality ). Individual ibus can change bolos and must be treated hospitably. The term belongs to a fictitious planned language (rather just a basic vocabulary) called asa'pili , which is to be used in a global community based on bolos .

In addition, Widmer was active in the squatter and commune scene in Zurich . To this day he is active in the building and housing cooperative KraftWerk1, which he co-founded in 1995 , an eco-social urban municipality.

Works

Books

• World spirit superstar . Stroemfeld ,. Basel 1980, ISBN 3-87877-140-1 (reprint: DTV, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-423-01885-2 )
• Tripura transfer . Stroemfeld, Basel 1982, ISBN 3-87877-172-X
• Bolo'bolo . Paranoia City, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-907522-01-X
• Between rainforest and permafrost. Two days in a moderate climate . Stroemfeld, Basel 1984, ISBN 3-87877-240-8
• Amberland. Travel book . Paranoia City, Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-907522-05-2
• Olten - get off everything. Ideas for the abolition of Switzerland (with Urban Gwerder and Daniel de Roulet ). Paranoia City, Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-907522-08-7
• Europe? Stop! A pamphlet . Paranoia City, Zurich 1992
• Midnight Oil . Semiotext (e), New York 1992
• Power plant 1st project for the Sulzer-Escher Wyss area (with Martin Blum and Andreas Hofer). Paranoia City, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-907522-14-1
• The horrors of the year 1000 (as "Rodulf von Gardau"). 3 volumes. Rotpunktverlag , Zurich:
  • Volume 1: 1996, ISBN 3-85869-128-3
  • Volume 2: Kumbi , 1997, ISBN 3-85869-139-9
  • Volume 3: Pukaroa , 1999, ISBN 3-85869-172-0
• Agbala dooo! A journey through the Swiss territory in 205 pr Paranoia City, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-907522-17-6
• The little gray book . Aurora, Berlin 1999
• Subcoma. Making sustainable provisions for life after the economy. PM's helpful household book . Paranoia City, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-907522-19-2
• The golden way . Novel. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-85869-250-6
• AKIBA. A Gnostic novel . Paranoia City, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-907522-24-0
  • Eternal life. Short version. A key to AKIBA . Paranoia City, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-907522-27-1
• New start in Switzerland - this is how it goes on (edited by Christoph Pfluger). Edition Zeit, Solothurn 2008, ISBN 978-3-033-01779-5
• Read Manetti or about the good life . Novel. Edition Nautilus , Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89401-761-3
• Potatoes and computers. Replace markets with communities . Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89401-767-5
• The other city . Paranoia City, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-907522-28-8
• The hare's face . Hirnkost, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-947380-84-8
• The book ONLY . available online CC-BY-ND 3.0

Theatrical performances

• The birth of a machine , premiered: Rote Fabrik , Zurich 1984
• LEGO , Zurich 1994

radio play

• Tucui , Swiss Radio DRS 1983

Games

• Demono , placement game, produced by Frank Beat Keller, 1985
• Bolo Bolo , board game, production and co-author Frank Beat Keller, 1986

literature

• Martin d'Idler: "bolo'bolo" (1983) by PM , UTOPIE Kreativ, issue 205 (November 2007), pp. 1066-1071
• Beat Metzler. The utopian cement mixer. Tages-Anzeiger May 21, 2014.
• Marvin Chlada : The will to utopia , Alibri: Aschaffenburg 2004, pp. 153–157, ISBN 3-932710-73-8

Individual evidence

1. ↑ KraftWerk1 Contraste article in the CoForum of September 9, 2006, accessed on December 2, 2015
2. ↑ bolo'bolo online
3. ↑ Subcoma online
4. ↑ http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/cgi-bin/luding/GameData.py?f=00w^E4X&gameid=297
5. ↑ http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/cgi-bin/luding/GameData.py?f=00w^E4X&gameid=8716
6. ↑ "bolo'bolo" (1983) by PM - The Draft of Global Anarchism as a New Classic of Political Utopia (PDF file; 63 kB)

Web links

• Literature by and about P. M. in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry about Hans Widmer in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Hans Widmer in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Hans Widmer (author) at Open Library
• bolo'bolo - Foreword to the 5th edition
• (Via) bolo'bolo, by PM - Transcription of a video by Oliver Ressler