Richard Merz

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Richard Merz (born May 1, 1936 in Zug ; † March 9, 2015 ) was a Swiss dance critic.

Life

After attending grammar school, Richard Merz initially trained as an actor and worked for one season as an actor and assistant director at the Theater Frankfurt am Main . He took part in the Zurich Chamber Speakers Choir and later became its linguistic director. He arranged works such as the Ursonata for the choir and performed his own pieces with him. He trained as a primary school teacher and worked from 1960 to 1965 in this profession. From 1967 he completed a degree in German, religious history and psychology at the University of Zurich and received his doctorate with the dissertation Die numinose Mischgestalt . After completing his psychoanalytic training, he worked at the Institute for Applied Psychology (IAP) from 1976 to 1992 , after which he opened his own psychoanalytic practice in Zurich.

Since the beginning of his studies, Merz has been writing theater reviews for regional newspapers as a freelancer, and since 1978 he has regularly published ballet and dance reviews in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . He wrote articles for the International Encyclopedia of Dance and the Theater Lexikon der Schweiz .

Fonts

  • The numinous mixed figure. Method-critical investigation of animal-human phenomena in Ancient Egypt, the Ice Age and the Aranda in Australia . Berlin: De Gruyter, 1978.

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  1. ↑ Ursula Pellaton: Dance Versatility , Obituary, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 14, 2015, p. 24
personal data
SURNAME Merz, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss dance critic
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH train
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 2015