Jürg Frischknecht

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Jürg Frischknecht (1988)

Jürg Frischknecht (born January 23, 1947 in Herisau ; † July 18, 2016 in Zurich ) was a Swiss journalist and author of numerous non-fiction books.

Life

Frischknecht grew up as the youngest child of a family of teachers in the rural canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden . He attended the canton school in St. Gallen and began to be politically active at an early age, first in the Appenzell Forum for Political Enterprises , and was one of those who submitted the first initiative to introduce women's suffrage in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden.

From 1967 to 1974, Jürg Frischknecht studied sociology , journalism and history at the University of Zurich , began his journalistic activities at the same time and then worked for ten years as a Zurich correspondent for the Basler National-Zeitung . In terms of content, he mainly dealt with university issues, media development and political extremism . In 1981 he was also one of the founders of the left-independent Zurich weekly WoZ , where he exposed police spies in the youth movement and criticized nuclear power plants .

Frischknecht worked as a freelance journalist, lecturer and author in Zurich. He died in July 2016 at the age of 69 after developing cancer.

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In 1976, Frischknecht was one of the group that spectacularly penetrated the secret archive of Ernst Cincera and reported on it in a “Democratic Manifesto”. With Cincera he also dealt as a co-author of the book The uncanny Patriots: Political reaction in Switzerland .

Other publications by Frischknecht are the book "The interrupted trace" (Zurich 1983), written together with the filmmaker Mathias Knauer , about anti-fascist emigration in Switzerland from 1933 to 1945 and "Switzerland, we are coming" (Zurich 1991) about those in the 80s Years ago , new right-wing and racist groups emerged in Switzerland. Together with Peter Niggli, Frischknecht published the follow-up work to the “Unheimlichen Patrioten”: “Right-wing rope teams. How the 'scary patriots' mastered the collapse of communism ”(Zurich 1998).

Together with Ursula Bauer and the photographer Marco Volken, he has written a series of hiking guides since 1995, each of which deals with historical topics along the hiking trails. The following were published by Rotpunktverlag:

  • Bath trips. Hike and swim, rest and refresh yourself. 2nd Edition. Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-85869-236-0 .
  • with Ursula Bauer: Grenzschlängeln. Routes, passes and stories on foot from the Inn to Lake Geneva. 5th, completely revised and updated edition. Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-85869-123-2 .
  • Veltliner foot travel. Between the Bündner passes and the Bergamasque Alps. 4th edition. Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-85869-349-5 .
  • Emigrations. Instructions for leaving Switzerland. 1st edition. Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-85869-372-3 .
  • Antipasti and old ways. Valle Maira - hiking in the other Piedmont . 8th, updated and expanded edition. Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-85869-399-5 .
  • Schüttelbrot and Wasserwosser. Paths and stories between Ortler and Meran. 2nd Edition. Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-85869-447-8 .
  • Hiking in the city of Zurich . Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-85869-481-2 .
  • with Ursula Bauer: Solothurn, Olten, Aarau. Between the Aare and the Jura: hiking where Switzerland originated. Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-85869-669-4 . (Photos by Sabine Bobst)
  • Bergell border region. Paths and stories between Maloja and Chiavenna. 5th edition. Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-85869-736-3 .

Awards

In 1994 Frischknecht received the Fischhof Prize , which is awarded by the Foundation against Racism and Anti-Semitism (GRA) and the Society for Minorities in Switzerland (GMS) and in 2004, together with Ursula Bauer, the Binding Prize for nature and environmental protection (due to his commitment for Alpine ecology and Alpine politics). In 2006, together with Ursula Bauer, he received the Albert Mountain Award for a new type of hiking book, the hiking book.

echo

«His position was clear: left. That made him suspicious - and limited his professional opportunities. But the journalist Jürg Frischknecht did not like to write everywhere and for every newspaper. He had seen too many colleagues who had entered the profession as idealistic as he did, compromise after compromise, climb the career ladder in newspaper publishers and television companies. He neither wanted nor could. "

- Urs Tremp in the NZZ on Sunday . July 24, 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jürg Frischknecht has died. In: Appenzeller Zeitung . July 21, 2016. Retrieved July 21, 2016 .
  2. ^ Rainer Stadler : On the death of Jürg Frischknecht. Rebellious researcher. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 22, 2016 (obituary), accessed July 23, 2016.
  3. ↑ The uncanny patriots: Political reaction in Switzerland . A current manual with addendum 1979-84. 6th (no longer censored) edition. Limmat Verlag , Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-85791-077-1 .
  4. ↑ Review ( Memento from July 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: Sunday newspaper . May 8, 2011, pp. 78–79 (PDF; 4 kB).
  5. ^ Publisher's text ( Memento from September 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Fischhof Prize. Foundation against Racism and Anti-Semitism (GRA), accessed on August 13, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Frischknecht, Jürg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Herisau
DATE OF DEATH 18th July 2016
Place of death Zurich