Cédric Weidmann (born 29 July 1991) is a Swiss writer, philologist and literary promoter. He holds a
doctorate
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from the
ETH Zurich
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(2022).
Biography
In 2006, at the age of 15, Cédric Weidmann created his first author literary blog.
He participated in cantonal and national literary competitions, published in literary periodicals, studied and then taught
Germanistics
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,
literary theory
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, and
economic history
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at ETH Zurich.
Since 2013, he has been a member of the editorial board of the Zurich countercultural magazine '.
In 2022, he defended his doctoral dissertation, "Anticipating Nostalgia. Calculating the transformation of language and capital" (), in which, based on the material of
science fiction works and
political-economic theories, including the
Marxist theory of surplus value, he developed a typology of
nostalgia
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as a sociocultural phenomenon that devalues the past in favor of the future ("productive" type) or the future in favor of the past ("extractive" type). In the same year, he became the head of the
Aargauer Literaturhaus
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in Lenzburg, an institution in whose work he had been actively involved since 2009.
Weidmann has published short stories, articles, essays on science fiction, futurology, video games, collective literary practices, and the relationship between literature and economics in various German-language media, including ''delirium'', ', ', ' (Switzerland), ''
The Gap'' (Austria), ''
Süddeutsche Zeitung
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'', litradio (Germany), the thematic anthology ''Biocatalyst. Psychoactive Literature'' (, 2022), etc.
Weidmann is the silver medallist of the (2010),
[ winner of the national literary competition Permanent Place (, 2011)][ and the (Austria, 2017).]
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1991 births
21st-century Swiss male writers
ETH Zurich alumni
Living people
People from Affoltern District
Swiss essayists
Swiss philologists
Winners of Swiss literary prizes