Alfred “Fredi” Lerch (born 10 April 1954 in Roggwil) is a

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Biography

From 1982 to 2001, Lerch was editor of the Swiss weekly newspaper '' Die Wochenzeitung'' (''WOZ''). At that time he published a “two-volume history of Bernese subculture between 1955 and 1970 under the title of ''Begerts letzte Lektion'' (1996) and ''Muellers Weg ins Paradies'' (2001)”.Short biography of Fredi Lerch at: Fredi Lerch
''Alternative cultural centres in German-speaking Switzerland: Byways to Freedom.''
In: '' Passages/Passagen: A Swiss Cultural Magazine'', no. 33, Winter 2002, p. 18 (translation by Maureen Oberli-Turner) From 2001 to 2006, he was a member of the Municipal “Literary Commission” (''Literarische Kommission'') of the City of

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. Since 2002 he works as a freelance journalist and is member of a press office called “puncto” in Bern. From 2006 to 2008, he published, together with Erwin Marti, the collected works (''Werkausgabe'') of the Swiss writer Carl Albert Loosli. He is the founder of the

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External links

* Fredi Lerch
''Alternative cultural centres in German-speaking Switzerland: Byways to Freedom.''
In: '' Passages/Passagen: A Swiss Cultural Magazine'', no. 33, Winter 2002, p. 15–18.

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