Cluster: Swiss Identity

The man who walks through minefields

This content was published on Aug 14, 2012 On a table in Thun military barracks, Sergeant Roman Wilhelm shows us two plastic boxes – two containers of death. Inside are different types of landmines: anti-personnel and anti-tank mines, ones made of plastic and metal, round ones and long ones. Some are designed to explode at the slightest pressure, others need a chemical reaction…

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Rejoicing and regret after the London Olympics

This content was published on Aug 13, 2012 “London 2012, gold medal for the Olympics,” says the French-language Le Temps, while the German-language Neue Zürcher Zeitung, under the headline “The Party is over”, calls them “Games to remember”. A commentator in Le Temps praises not only the efficiency with which the Games were run from day to day, but also the way in which London…

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The creative schizophrenia of Aloïse

This content was published on Aug 13, 2012 On the occasion of two key exhibitions dedicated to Aloïse this summer in Lausanne, the question of whether her creativity would have survived modern medication has surfaced. Antipsychotic drugs and antidepressants relieve the distress of innumerable individuals, but they can also switch off creative drive. The debate has taken on new relevance since the publication…

Culture

When talent outshines handicap

This content was published on Aug 13, 2012 The atelier Creahm is tucked away behind the École de Cormanon in a suburb of Fribourg. Bright and spacious and rented for a song from the local parish, it is the workplace of 18 artists who spend one to three days a week there. It encloses a subtle disorder of easels, tables, paint pots and…

Culture

Aloïse’s World

This content was published on Aug 13, 2012 She produced hundreds of works in different shapes and sizes (individual drawings and paintings, notebooks, scrolls several metres in length). She used black lead, coloured pencils and wax crayons, and liked to cover the entire surface of both sides of whatever material she was using.

Raw exuberance

This content was published on Aug 13, 2012 Raw exuberance

Choice of Golden Leopard raises eyebrows

This content was published on Aug 12, 2012 The third festival under Olivier Père drew mixed reviews, with not everyone won over by the programme on the Piazza Grande. Critics were puzzled not least by the handing of the Golden Leopard to 68-year-old Brisseau. “Although it’s interesting that the film was shot with amateur actors on a shoestring, I’m astonished that Locarno –…

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What medals mean for Swiss sports

This content was published on Aug 11, 2012 The national Olympic association had set a target of “five to seven medals. Now we have three. We still have medal candidates like our mountainbikers,” Christof Kaufmann told swissinfo.ch this week, challenging the use of the term “disappointing” to describe Switzerland’s performance before the Games end. But Swiss sporting organisations are apparently already worrying about…

Culture

Check-in to a world of dullness and banality

This content was published on Aug 11, 2012 The US filmmaker John Waters had this to say about it: “Every time I look out of an airplane window in boredom, frustration and exhaustion, I see a mediocre still life, even duller, more stupid and less remarkable than Fischli/Weiss’s. And I’m convinced that I’ve glimpsed a new kind of 1990s beauty, over and above…

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Hospital vows to introduce stricter practice

This content was published on Aug 10, 2012 The German decision, which does not apply to Switzerland, prompted debate in several other Swiss hospitals and among legal experts. Hospital officials on Friday announced that in the future every male circumcision for religious purposes will be made on a case-by-case basis, taking into account the health of the boy. The hospital will also try…

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