Hanspeter Guggenbühl

Hanspeter Guggenbühl (* 1949 in Männedorf ; † May 26, 2021 in Vaud ) was a Swiss journalist and publicist who specialized in the fields of the environment, energy and transport.

life and career

Hanspeter Guggenbühl was born in Männedorf, grew up in Zurich and graduated from the Zurich Cantonal Commercial School with a diploma . He worked as an advertising copywriter for two years, after which he completed a traineeship at the newspaper Die Tat and from 1973 to 1974 worked as a local editor for the Badener Tagblatt .

From 1974 he worked as a freelance journalist for many Swiss daily and weekly newspapers, also regularly for south-eastern Switzerland . After a dispute, the Luzerner Zeitung ended its collaboration with him in 2017, as did all the NZZ regional titles such as the St. Galler Tagblatt .

From 2011 Guggenbühl was an author and member of the editorial board responsible for the Internet newspaper Infosperber , where he published over 600 articles. In addition to his articles, he became known through his book publications.

Guggenbühl lived with his partner in Illnau in the canton of Zurich . On May 26, 2021, he had a fatal accident while cycling in Vaud when a motorcyclist hit him. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung described him in an obituary as “one of the most recognized Swiss journalists for environmental and energy issues”.

Awards

• 1997: Binding Prize for nature and environmental protection
• 2002: Alstom Journalist Award
• 2011: “Journalist of the year” (3rd place), elected by readers of the trade journal Schweizer Journalist
• 2012: "Science Journalist of the Year", voted by readers of the trade journal Schweizer Journalist

Publications

Books

• with Kurt Brandenberger , Urs P. Gasche , Fredy Hämmerli : The fairy tale of clean Switzerland. Lenos-Verlag, Basel 1982, ISBN 978-3-85787-097-2 .
• with Urs P. Gasche, Werner Vontobel : The chatter of the free market economy. How companies distort competition, exploit nature and ask taxpayers to pay for it. Rio, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-907768-15-9 .
• with Urs P. Gasche: The chatter about growth. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-280-05101-0 .
• with Urs P. Gasche: No more growth mania - a plea for a turnaround. Rüegger Verlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7253-0965-8 .
• Energy transition. And how it can be achieved. Rüegger-Verlag, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7253-0992-4 .

Article (selection)

• Author: Hanspeter Guggenbühl. Article directory from Hanspeter Guggenbühl at Infosperber with over 600 articles
• Hanspeter Guggenbühl, Urs P. Gasche: Growth is based on pumps . In: The weekly newspaper . No. 44/2010 , November 4, 2010 ( woz.ch ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Hanspeter Guggenbühl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hanspeter Guggenbühl: "If the economy grows, nature shrinks". Interview by Pro Natura with Hanspeter Guggenbühl, September 30, 2019
• Susan Boos : The Chatter About Growth. It just doesn't make you happy. Urs P. Gasche and Hanspeter Guggenbühl tear apart the growth ideology . In: The weekly newspaper . September 30, 2004 ( archive.org [accessed March 11, 2007]).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Surber: "Independent and incorruptible" (obituary). In: strings . June 1, 2021, accessed June 1, 2021 . 
2. ↑ Harry Rosenbaum: Guggenbühl case: ceiling on the «Tagblatt» editorial team. In: strings . March 21, 2017, accessed June 1, 2021 . 
3. ↑ Hanspeter Spörri: A bland "daily paper". In: WoZ . April 27, 2017, accessed June 1, 2021 . 
4. ↑ Edith Hollenstein: NZZ Group: "We save where it does not affect the reader" (interview with Pascal Hollenstein). In: personal.com. April 25, 2017, accessed June 1, 2021 . 
5. ↑ Hanspeter Guggenbühl had a fatal accident. In: persoenlich.com, May 31, 2021
6. ↑ Urs P. Gasche : Adieu, dear Hanspeter. In: Infosperber from May 31, 2021, accessed on May 31, 2021.
7. ↑ ^{a b} The Zurich journalist Hanspeter Guggenbühl had a fatal accident. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 31, 2021.
8. ↑ sda : Urs Paul Engeler is «Journalist of the Year». In: The Bund. December 20, 2011, accessed May 30, 2021 .