Michael Hug (Author)

Michael Hug 2014

Michael Hug (born June 30, 1959 in Flawil ) is a Swiss travel reporter, book author and blogger. From 2003 to 2008 he published the travel and culture magazine Zeigerzine .

Life

Michael Hug was born in Eastern Switzerland as the son of a Swiss and an Austrian. He learned a technical profession, worked as a service provider in mechanical engineering until the age of 41 and worked in this function worldwide. He gave up his profession in Moscow in 1999 and has been a self-taught freelance journalist with a focus on travel and culture since 2000. He writes for Swiss and Austrian print products. From 2003 to 2008 he published the travel and culture magazine Zeigerzine as a platform for regional authors. In Flawil he maintained a gallery for regional visual artists with the Zeighaus Dorfkunst . He was a single father of three at the time.

In a personal crisis in 2009 he went traveling, first visiting the monastery Simonos Petras on Mount Athos . In 2014 he published his book Mediterranea , the first volume of a planned narrative travel report series, in which he also deals with his “middle-life crisis”.

About Mediterranea which was St. Galler Tagblatt : "Michael Hug writes tasty, likes to change style and tone. Dialect words appear like dellinomol or creative like bearded monks or clairvoyant water veins or open-endedness. ”And he managed to create“ strong images ”. After the second volume, Tre Vulcani , for which he had to contribute to the production costs, the daily newspaper wrote: “When he writes while traveling, journalistic authenticity and factual fidelity disappear under a jacket of pointed, powerful and often ironic storytelling.” With readings, pictures and music, Hug built the stage program Grips, Trips, Show & Tell .

Prices

In 2008, Michael Hug received the Eastern Switzerland Media Prize for his report from the Orkney Islands with the title the rule is: no rules! the ba'game, a men's game about the ba'game , a kind of chaotic rugby that is played once a year in the alleys of Kirkwall . The article was published in 2007 in Zeigerzine .

Publications

Mediterranea. Travel with heart and mind. Hützen & Partner , Salenstein 2014, ISBN 978-3-906189-00-0
Tre Vulcani. Hützen & Partner, Salenstein 2015, ISBN 978-3-906189-12-3
Saharaoui. Verlag grippedbäg, Degersheim 2016, ISBN 978-3-033058-40-8
Tanganyika. Verlag grippedbäg, Degersheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-033064-60-7
Sakartwelo. Verlag grippedbäg, Degersheim 2018, ISBN 978-3-033-06898-8

Web links

Literature by and about Michael Hug in the catalog of the German National Library
www.michlmichl.ch - personal website
www.grippedbag.ch - author website

Individual evidence

↑ "Zeigerzine Dorfkunst" takes root. ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Appenzeller Zeitung . February 12, 2004, updated November 18, 2008. @1@ 2

↑ Weird customs in Zeigerzine No 19. ( Memento from August 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: St. Galler Tagblatt . August 21, 2008.

↑ «Every journey begins in the head». In: Toggenburger Zeitung. December 18, 2014.

↑ ^a ^b Dieter Langhardt: When one travels a lot . In: St. Galler Tagblatt. 18th September 2014.

↑ Michael Hug reads from a new book. In: St. Galler Tagblatt Online. 17th April 2015.

↑ «Mediterranea» follows «Tre Vulcani» and a show. In: Toggenburger Tagblatt. 4th September 2015.

↑ «I wanted to cross the Gotthard». In: Thurgauer Zeitung . January 21, 2016.

^ Travel stories by Michael Hug. In: St. Galler Tagblatt. January 14, 2016.

↑ Prize winners. In: Eastern Switzerland Media Prize. Retrieved on September 4, 2019 (for “2008” under “Winner - Report / Background”: “Michael Hug, Degersheim” . Excellent articles about “the rule is: no rules, the ba'game, a men's game” can be downloaded.) . . Direct download of the article .

↑ A feeling for the hearty in life. In: Thurgauer Zeitung . June 5, 2008, archived from the original on June 21, 2016 ; Retrieved on July 21, 2016 (Toggenburg journalist Michael Hug received the Eastern Switzerland Media Prize for his travel report “die Regel ist: no rules”).

personal data
SURNAME	Hug, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss travel reporter, book author and blogger
DATE OF BIRTH	June 30, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	Flawil

[1] "Zeigerzine Dorfkunst" takes root. ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Appenzeller Zeitung . February 12, 2004, updated November 18, 2008. @1@ 2

[2] Weird customs in Zeigerzine No 19. ( Memento from August 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: St. Galler Tagblatt . August 21, 2008.

[toggenburger-3] «Every journey begins in the head». In: Toggenburger Zeitung. December 18, 2014.

[tagblatt2014-4] Dieter Langhardt: When one travels a lot . In: St. Galler Tagblatt. 18th September 2014.

[5] Michael Hug reads from a new book. In: St. Galler Tagblatt Online. 17th April 2015.

[6] «Mediterranea» follows «Tre Vulcani» and a show. In: Toggenburger Tagblatt. 4th September 2015.

[7] «I wanted to cross the Gotthard». In: Thurgauer Zeitung . January 21, 2016.

[8] Travel stories by Michael Hug. In: St. Galler Tagblatt. January 14, 2016.

[9] Prize winners. In: Eastern Switzerland Media Prize. Retrieved on September 4, 2019 (for “2008” under “Winner - Report / Background”: “Michael Hug, Degersheim” . Excellent articles about “the rule is: no rules, the ba'game, a men's game” can be downloaded.) . . Direct download of the article .

[10] A feeling for the hearty in life. In: Thurgauer Zeitung . June 5, 2008, archived from the original on June 21, 2016 ; Retrieved on July 21, 2016 (Toggenburg journalist Michael Hug received the Eastern Switzerland Media Prize for his travel report “die Regel ist: no rules”).