Martin Kunz

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Martin Kunz (born June 3, 1947 in Zurich ) is a Swiss philosopher , psychotherapist , cultural worker , author and musician .

Martin Kunz

Career

Martin Kunz attended elementary school and high school in Zurich and then studied German at the University of Zurich and at the Conservatory and privately piano, organ and composition with Robert Appert, Johannes Schäublin and Armin Schibler . He interrupted his studies and worked as an educational assistant at the Swiss Alpine Middle School in Davos and as a private educator with the Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach family at Obergrombach Castle .

In 1969/70 he attended lectures and seminars in theology and psychology at the Free University of Berlin . The stay in Berlin together with his college friends Jürg Amann and Peter Schwaar influenced his intellectual orientation. After returning to Zurich he studied philosophy, anthropological psychology, general pedagogy and modern German literature. He did his doctorate in 1977 with Detlev von Uslar .

He trained as a psychotherapist with a focus on analytical and creative psychotherapy and attended courses in fine arts at the F + F School for Experimental Design . He is a specialist psychologist for psychotherapy FSP and a creative psychotherapist GPK.

During his studies, he worked as a teacher at training centers for young people with special needs. After completing his studies, he worked as a psychotherapist in various competence centers for the training of physically and mentally impaired adolescents and young adults. In his own practice in Zurich he worked as a psychotherapist for adults and as a teaching therapist for aspiring art therapists until the 1990s. He then taught a. a. The subjects psychology and pedagogy at various grammar schools and worked as a lecturer in art therapy training, in particular at the Integrative Training Center (IAC) in Zurich.

From 2002 to 2016 Martin Kunz was a lecturer at the University of Education in Zurich , most recently as professor of anthropology and ethics. In 1992, together with five artists, he founded the Kunstnovember community in Wetzikon (ZH), which dissolved in 1999 after numerous exhibitions, performances, courses and activities. Since then, Martin Kunz has continued his projects at home and abroad, especially with the interdisciplinary artist Jeanine Osborne.

Since 1997 he has been designing philosophical courses and discourses together with the philosopher and mathematician Markus Huber - until 2014 as a philosophy project in the garden house in Zurich. The two of them exported their philosophizing conceptualized in dialogue, for example, to schools, as further training for staff at the Affoltern Hospital in Zurich, where they supported the idea of ​​human medicine, and since 2007 every year as philosophical evening talks at the Hotel Waldhaus Sils-Maria (Switzerland). Martin Kunz has been running the studio for art and philosophy in Zurich as a qualified cultural manager and art coach since 2015.

Martin Kunz has a daughter.

Works (selection)

Editorial activity

  • Co-editor of the Raben series (Psychological Edition of the Schweizer Spiegelverlag).
  • Co-editor of GORGO. Journal of archetypal psychology and pictorial thinking.

Publications

  • with Gustav Dreifuss: image and soul. Zurich 1986.
  • with Allan Guggenbühl (Ed.): Boasting, lying and deceit. Zurich 1987.
  • with Allan Guggenbühl (ed.): The terrible. Mythological considerations on the depths in man. Zurich 1990.
  • Various articles in: Gerhard Stumm ua (Ed.): Dictionary of Psychotherapy. Vienna 2000.
  • Steps like clouds. Poems. With drawings by Beatrice Bucher. Wetzikon 2001.
  • What is not one is also one. A philosophical evening talk with Markus Huber and other dialogues. Zurich 2016.
  • Honey and quartz. Poems and philosophical exaggerations. Norderstedt 2017.
  • The silent eroticism of melancholy. Considerations and improvisations. Hohenems / Vienna / Vaduz 2018.

CDs

  • From the Diary of the Wetzikon housewife. With Jeanine Osborne (text and voice). Produced by the literary magazine Affenschaukel . 1997.
  • Look at me, Mr. Direckter. (Text: Hanspeter Ilg). With Jeanine Osborne (voice) and Andrzej Kowalski (violin). Produced by Kulturradio SRF 2 . 1999.

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personal data
SURNAME Kunz, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss philosopher, psychotherapist, cultural worker, author and musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich