Peter André Bloch

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Peter André Bloch (born October 14, 1936 in Balsthal ) is a Swiss Germanist who taught as a grammar school teacher at the canton school in Olten and from 1992 until his retirement in 2006 as a professor in Mulhouse in Alsace.

In 1990 he played a key role in founding the Palais Besenval cantonal cultural center in Solothurn . From 1976 to 1989 he was President of the Board of Trustees for the Promotion of Culture in the Canton of Solothurn . Since 1976 he has been a member of the Nietzsche House Foundation in Sils-Maria in the canton of Graubünden, where he has been holding the international Nietzsche Colloquia since 1981.

Since 1995 he has been President of the Wartenfels Castle Foundation , for which he regularly organizes exhibitions in the castle complex near Lostorf in the canton of Solothurn.

From 1999 to 2003 Bloch was Vice President of the Center de recherche sur l'Europe littéraire (CREL). In 2004 he was made a knight (chevalier) of the Order of the Palmes Académiques . He has been a member of the Académie d'Alsace since 2007.

In 1990 Peter André Bloch received the Culture Prize of the Canton of Solothurn and in 2008 the Art Prize of the Canton of Solothurn .

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Individual evidence

  1. Peter André Bloch on sokultur.ch