Jürg Altwegg

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Jürg Altwegg (born March 27, 1951 in Zurich ) is a Swiss author and journalist .

Life

Jürg Altwegg studied Romance languages , German and history at the University of Zurich and the Université de Genève . He was a correspondent for the Tages-Anzeiger , the Luzerner Neusten Nachrichten , the Basler Zeitung and the Zeit . He has written numerous radio features for Norddeutscher Rundfunk and Hessischer Rundfunk . He has been a permanent employee since the early 1980s and from 1988 to 2017 editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung based in Geneva (editorial abbreviation JA).

Altwegg reports on cultural events in the Romandie , the rest of Switzerland and France, and has written several books published on the philosophical and intellectual scene in France and Germany. Altwegg "[...] feels like a permanent border crosser between the German and Francophone world, but also between journalistic genres and departments". In 1994 he was awarded the prize of the Jubilee Foundation of the Swiss Bank Corporation as "... one of the most important mediators of French culture". Altwegg continues to write articles for the FAZ as its cultural correspondent (as of autumn 2018).

Altwegg lives near Geneva.

Publications

  • Death of a philosopher. Jean-Paul Sartre, symbol of an unfinished era . Benteli, Bern 1981; Licensed edition Schneider, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-7165-0379-7 .
  • Living and writing in French-speaking Switzerland. Portraits, conversations and essays from French-speaking Switzerland . Ammann, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-250-01005-7 .
  • Perspective Switzerland. Conversations with contemporaries (as co-editor). Benziger, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-545-34052-X .
  • The republic of the spirit. France's intellectuals between revolution and reaction . Piper, Munich 1986; exp. New edition ibid. 1989 (sp 1130), ISBN 3-492-11130-0 .
  • We and the world = La Suisse et le monde (as editor). Sauerländer, Aarau 1987, ISBN 3-7941-2956-3 .
  • French thinkers of today. 20 portraits (with Aurel Schmidt). Beck, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-406-31992-0 .
  • The Heidegger controversy (as editor). Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-610-04714-3 .
  • France . Oase, Badenweiler 1988, ISBN 3-88922-200-5 .
  • Horizont 92. Switzerland under the sign of the EC (as editor). Sauerländer, Aarau 1988, ISBN 3-7941-3086-3 .
  • The long shadows of Vichy. France, Germany and the return of the repressed . Hanser, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-446-19474-6 .
  • Ghost train to death. An unknown chapter in Franco-German history in 1944 . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2001, ISBN 3-498-00057-8 .
  • Oh, you love Switzerland. State of the Union essays . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-312-00291-5 .
  • Cow Swiss and Swabians. Swiss, Germans and their love-hate relationship (edited with Roger de Weck ). With drawings by Nico . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-312-00315-6 .
  • Helvetia in the field. What the Swiss are doing in the world . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-312-00349-0 .
  • A gate, in God's name! About football, politics and religion . Hanser, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-446-20709-0 .
  • Are the Swiss the better Germans? The hatred of the small differences (together with Roger de Weck). Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-312-00457-7 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürg Altwegg (YES). In: FAZ .
  2. ↑ News from the editorial team , In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 11, 2017, p. 2.
  3. ↑ You edit and write. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Frankfurt 1997, p. 11.
  4. ↑ FAZ website
personal data
SURNAME Altwegg, Juerg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich