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2022 In Switzerland
Events in the year 2022 in Switzerland. Incumbents * President of the Swiss Confederation: Ignazio Cassis * List of Presidents of the National Council of Switzerland, President of the National Council: Irène Kälin * List of Presidents of the Swiss Council of States, President of the Swiss Council of States: Thomas Hefti Events Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland Arts and entertainment * 75th Locarno Film Festival August 3 – 13 Deaths * 7 January – Laurence Boissier, writer and artist (born 1965) * 20 January – René Robert (photographer), René Robert, photographer (born 1936) * 21 January – Marcel Mauron, footballer (FC La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland national football team, national team) (born 1929) * 24 January – Silvia Gmür, architect (born 1939) * 26 January – Gérald Ducimetière, artist (born 1940) * 2 February – J. Alexander Baumann, politician (born 1942) * 3 February – Georges Athanasiadès, organist and choirmaster (born 1929) * 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland is geographically divided among the Swiss Plateau, the Swiss Alps, Alps and the Jura Mountains, Jura; the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, whereas most of the country's Demographics of Switzerland, 9 million people are concentrated on the plateau, which hosts List of cities in Switzerland, its largest cities and economic centres, including Zurich, Geneva, and Lausanne. Switzerland is a federal republic composed of Cantons of Switzerland, 26 cantons, with federal authorities based in Bern. It has four main linguistic and cultural regions: German, French, Italian and Romansh language, Romansh. Although most Swiss are German-speaking, national identity is fairly cohesive, being rooted in a common historical background, shared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Athanasiadès
Georges Athanasiadès (27 July 1929 – 3 February 2022) was a Swiss organist and choirmaster. Biography Athanasiadès was born to an Italian mother and a Greek father in Saint-Ursanne (Jura) . He studied theology at the and later studied German literature and musicology in Heidelberg and Freiburg im Breisgau. He returned to Switzerland to study music in Lausanne and earned a high distinction on the pipe organ. In 1952, Athanasiadès was ordained a priest at the Abbey of Saint-Maurice d'Agaune and became a teacher of German and Greek literature. He was also the abbey's organist. He participated in multiple concert tours across Europe, North America, Japan, Africa, and China. He made numerous recordings and participated in multiple international competitions. In 2001, he founded the Concours international pour orgue de Saint-Maurice. Athanasiadès's discography included many recorded works by great composers such as Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, César Franck, Johann Sebastia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Stamm
Judith Stamm (25 February 1934 – 20 July 2022) was a Swiss jurist and politician of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP). She was seen as an influential women's rights activist. Early life and education Judith Stamm was born in Schaffhausen on 25 February 1934, the daughter of a railway official and a housewife. She knew early on that she wanted to become a lawyer and studied law at the University of Zurich, from where she graduated with a doctorate. Professional career Until 1960,Stamm worked at the district court in Uster. She would have liked to become a court clerk, and the courts president would have hired her, but as a woman she lacked the political rights required for the post. Instead, she applied for and obtained the position of an assistant to the cantonal police in Lucerne, where she initially was the only woman in the police corps. For twenty years, she remained with the police, trained new recruits in the police force and eventually she herself was p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Pauli
Alice Pauli (13 January 1922 – 15 July 2022) was a Swiss gallery owner, sculptor, and visual artist. Pauli opened the Galerie Alice Pauli in Switzerland in 1962 and focused on contemporary art. The Gallery's mission was "to be carriers of images, messengers between human creation and the public." References 1922 births 2022 deaths Swiss women centenarians Swiss women artists Swiss sculptors People from the Bernese Jura {{Switzerland-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erica Pedretti
Erica Pedretti (; 25 February 1930 – 14 July 2022) was a Swiss author and artist. Pedretti has published texts since 1970, and since 1976 she has worked as an artist, especially as a sculptor. In 1984, Pedretti received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for her text ''The model and his painter'' and in 1996 the Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize for her novel ''Engste Heimat''. She was also awarded a Swiss Literature Prize in 2013. Life Erica Pedretti was born Erica Schefter in 25 February 1930 in Steinberg in northern Moravia, Czechoslovakia. Her mother tongue was German. Her father was a silk manufacturer, but lost the factory after the Second World War. Pedretti went to Switzerland in 1945 on a Red Cross transport, to live with her aunt in Zurich Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivo Fürer
Jakob Andreas Ivo Fürer (20 April 1930 – 12 July 2022) was a Swiss prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Bishop of St. Gallen from 1995 to 2005. Biography Fürer was born in Gossau, Switzerland, and studied Catholic theology at Innsbruck University and canon law in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where in 1957 he earned a doctorate in canon law. He was ordained a priest on 3 April 1954. He was a chaplain in Herisau from 1958 to 1963 and in Altstätten from 1963 to 1967. He became Bishop's Secretary in St. Gallen in 1967 and then Bishop's Vicar in 1969. In 1971 he helped found the Working Community of Christian Churches in Switzerland, a body of the National Council of Churches. In 1972 he was the president of the Swiss and diocesan synods. He was General Secretary of the Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe from 1977 to 1995. He became a cathedral deacon in 1991. Fürer was elected bishop of St. Gallen on 28 March 1995 and appointed to that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Rémy
Marcel Rémy (6 February 1923 – 10 July 2022) was a Swiss amateur mountaineer and rock climber. He was well known for his achievements in rock climbing. Biography The son of François and Bertha Rémy, Marcel was born in the Gruyère District on 6 February 1923. His father was a farmer and a lumberjack before he became a railway worker. He began working as a farmer at a young age. At the age of eight, he discovered mountaineering from contact with tourists. He taught a number of courses in the Vaud Alps and the , as well as the iconic Matterhorn, Grand Combin, and Mont Blanc. Passionate about mountaineering, he introduced many people to the practice, such as his sons, Claude and Yves, who themselves became high-level sport climbers. In 2017, at the age of 94, Rémy climbed the ''Miroir d'Argentine'', a 450-meter cliff in the Vaud Alps The Vaud Alps (, , ) are a mountain range of the Western Alps, located in western Switzerland. They are sometimes also referred to as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Frauenfelder
Hans Frauenfelder (July 28, 1922 – July 10, 2022) was an American physicist and biophysicist notable for his discovery of perturbed angular correlation (PAC) in 1951. In the modern day, PAC spectroscopy is widely used in the study of condensed matter physics. Within biophysics, he is known for his experimental and theoretical research on the dynamical behavior of protein tertiary structure. Education Frauenfelder received his Dr. sc. nat. in physics in 1950 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich under Paul Scherrer, his thesis being on the study of radioactive surfaces. At ETH, he was also taught by Gregor Wentzel and Wolfgang Pauli. Through Pauli, he also got to know many of the leading scientists such as Hendrik Kramers, Werner Heisenberg, Hans Jensen, and Wolfgang Paul. Career Frauenfelder migrated to the United States in 1952, joining the department of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a research associate. He stayed at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentin Oehen
Valentin Oehen (26 June 1931 – 2 June 2022) was a Swiss politician. He was a member of the ''National Action against the Alienation of the People and the Home'' (renamed later in Swiss Democrats, DS). Biography Oehen became president of the ''National Action'' in 1968, where he stayed until his departure from the party in 1986 due to a dispute with . Oehen served in the National Council from 1971 to 1987, where he represented the Canton of Bern. During this period, he participated in the . In 1979, Oehen submitted a parliamentary initiative that would have introduced the death penalty for murder and terrorism involving hostage-taking . The National Council rejected this by 131 votes to 3. In 1984, he led the , which failed in a referendum with 51.5% voting against it. In May 1988, Oehen announced his retirement from his political career, which concluded when his term in the Grand Council of Ticino expired in 1991. Valentin Oehen died in Nottwil Nottwil is a municipalit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nessim Gaon
Nessim David Gaon (, 22 February 1922 – 10 May 2022) was a Sudan-born Swiss financier who founded a trading conglomerate known as Noga SA. Outside the business world, he was very prominent in Jewish affairs, acting as president of the World Sephardi Federation since 1971. He was also a vice president of the World Jewish Congress and chairman of the board of governors of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Biography Gaon was born in Sudan to Turkish Jews who had been transplanted to Spain and later moved to Egypt and then Sudan. He was married to Renée Tamman (1927–2014), with whom he had three children: Marguerite Herzog, David N. Gaon, and Danielle Coën-Gaon. Aside from the posts Gaon held in world Jewish organizations, he was the founder of Hekhal Haness Synagogue in Geneva. Business career Gaon's career in trade began as a trader of burlap bags and crocodile and snake skins in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan before graduating to peanut and edible oils trade. When the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Naftule
Pierre Philippe Naftule (5 December 1960 – 19 March 2022) was a Swiss writer, producer and theatre director. Biography Naftule was descended from Romanian ancestry. He became well known to French-speaking audiences during his time on the game show ', broadcast on . When he returned to Switzerland, he staged three shows alongside his friend Pascal Bernheim: ''Le Père Noël est une ordure'', ''Topaze'', and ''Les dix petits nègres''. After creating his own stage production studio, he took over as director of until 1995. Alongside and Bernheim, he led Revue genevoise two more times. In 1995, Naftule founded the show production company Yaka Production SA alongside Alain Monnet and Gérard Mermet. He created the character Marie-Thérèse Poget née Bertholet for Revue genevoise with , which became . The character's first show, ''La truie est en moi'' was produced in 1996. He also collaborated with and worked alongside . He was the agent of . In 2018, he co-founded the ''Nouvel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique Warluzel
Dominique Warluzel (29 May 1957 – 8 March 2022) was a Swiss lawyer, television producer, and playwright. He was registered with the Geneva Bar. Education Dominique Warluzel attended the Institut Florimont from 1965 to 1977 until he obtained his type-B federal maturity diploma (Latin). From 1974 to 1977, Warluzel studied theatre with actor and professor Michel Cassagne at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève. He went on to attend the University of Geneva, where he obtained his law degree in 1981. Waruvel passed the bar exam in April 1983. While in school Warluzel played table tennis and in 1969, won a junior Geneva table tennis championship title. He was later awarded the title of Swiss Junior Team Champion in 1972 while playing for Hugo Urchetti's Silver Star. Warluzel also held a black belt in jujutsu. Career Legal career After passing the bar exam in April 1983 Warluzel began working at Poncet, Turrettini, Amaudruz, & Neyroud, where he started as a trainee. Over t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
