Markus Kutter

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Markus Kutter (born October 9, 1925 in Beggingen ; † July 26, 2005 in Basel ) was a Swiss historian , advertiser, publicist and politician .

Life

Kutter, son of pastor Hermann Kutter (1893–1980) and a grandson of the theologian Hermann Kutter and a great-grandson of Wilhelm Rudolf Kutter , attended the humanistic high school in Basel and then studied in Basel, Paris, Geneva and Rome. He received his doctorate in 1954 with a dissertation on the Italian religious refugee Celio Secondo Curione .

In 1953, Kutter joined the Basel chemical company Geigy as an editor , where he built up and headed an information department until 1958. In 1959 he founded the advertising agency Gerstner + Kutter together with Karl Gerstner , in 1962 with Paul Gredinger († 2013) the GGK (Gerstner, Gredinger & Kutter) and caused a sensation beyond Switzerland with some of his advertising campaigns. He stayed in GGK, which has been internationally successful since the mid-1960s, until 1975, when he sold his shares to Gredinger. He then worked as a management consultant, and at the end of the 1970s he was briefly designated director of the national horticultural exhibition Green 80 . He dealt with the media local radio , teletext and video discs ; In 1983 he founded Alphaville AG, agency for publicity based in Basel.

Kutter was a noted Basel and also Swiss publicist who worked for newspapers and repeatedly presented his professional and life experiences as a writer and non-fiction author. In 1955, together with Max Frisch and Lucius Burckhardt , Kutter published his famous book achtung: die Schweiz . In this work it was proposed to forego the national exhibition Expo64 and instead to build a model city, which was not implemented. A focus of his later journalism was also the history of Basel and Switzerland , especially the period from the Helvetic to the founding of the Swiss federal state. In this context he founded the Peter Ochs Gesellschaft in 1989 . Kutter also wrote the script for the feature film Der Tod zu Basel (director: Urs Odermatt ) and the text for an unlisted festival about Peter Ochs.

From 1992 to 1997, Kutter represented the Liberal Democratic Party in the Basel City Council , the cantonal parliament. In 2002 he was elected to the Constitutional Council, which in autumn 2005 submitted the new cantonal constitution to the people for a vote. Cutter also operated a popular initiative on the accession of the Canton of Basel-Stadt the canton of Basel-Country , the 1833 took place Canton separation repealed.

Works (selection)

  • Naeman. A man of form, Vineta Verlag, Basel 1950
  • Poor Jacques von Bourbon, Handschin Verlag, Basel 1951
  • Celio Secondo Curione. Life and work, dissertation, Helbing Lichtenhahn , Basel 1955
  • We build our city ourselves, together with Lucius Burckhardt , Handschin Verlag, Basel 1953
  • attention: Switzerland. A conversation between Lucius Burckhardt, Max Frisch and Markus Kutter, Handschin Verlag, Basel 1955
  • The new city. Contributions to the discussion by Lucius Burckhardt, Max Frisch and Markus Kutter, Handschin Verlag, Basel 1956
  • Ship to Europe. Synthetic novel, Verlag A. Niggli , Teufen 1957
  • Inventory at 35, Verlag A. Niggli, Teufen 1961
  • Things and private matters. Notes from Switzerland, Walter , Olten 1964
  • Farewell to advertising, Verlag A. Niggli, Teufen 1976
  • Forward to nature - what does that mean? Verlag A. Niggli, Teufen 1978
  • Advertising in Switzerland, Ringier , Zofingen 1983
  • The people of Basel 200 years ago. Introduction and publication of a text by Christian Cajus Lorenz Hirschfeld including an introduction, Verlag Nachtmaschine, Basel 1985
  • The head birth of a nation: Das Dreieckland, Wiese Verlag, 1988
  • From media salad to dialogue society, Reinhardt Verlag, Basel 1989
  • Occasions and impulses. Recollected articles and texts, Reinhardt Verlag, Basel 1990
  • Edelweiss and colorful smarties. New hits for the 700-year-old Swiss Confederation , Reinhardt Verlag, Basel 1991
  • Europe - Tryst on the Upper Rhine, Basler Zeitung, Basel 1991
  • The difficulty in restoring the Peter Ochs picture. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Vol. 92, 1992, pp. 119-137. ( Digitized version ).
  • The Swiss and the Germans, Ammann Verlag , Zurich 1995
  • The beginning of modern Switzerland, Ammann Verlag, Zurich 1996
  • But then the people rule. A Swiss contribution to the theory of direct democracy, Ammann Verlag, Zurich 1996
  • A Switzerland by Napoleon's grace, Christoph Merian Verlag , Basel 1997
  • Switzerland from the day before yesterday, Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 1997
  • Switzerland is now becoming a federal state, Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 1998
  • The long legislative period - a diary from the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt, 1998
  • Towards modern Switzerland, Christoph Merian Verlag , Basel 1998, ISBN 3-85616-082-5
  • Switzerland in the 20th century (special edition of the Basler Zeitung in newspaper format), 2001
  • Building a theater with women, Verlag Nachtmaschine, Basel 2002
  • On-site appointment - poems, Verlag Nachtmaschine, 2005, ISBN 3-85816-108-X
  • Reinhardt Stumm (Ed.): Markus Kutter - Review: Findings from the text archive, Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2009

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SURNAME Kutter, Markus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kurt Rustamek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian, advertiser, publicist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Committed
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 2005
Place of death Basel