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Few mountain accidents have stirred so much emotion in Switzerland as the tragedy on the Eiger North Wall in 1957. Three climbers were killed but one was spectacularly rescued. Daniel Anker and Rainer Rettner describe and comment on the media event of the day in an illustrated book entitled “Corti Drama” (AZ publishing house), accompanied…
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The top event in this typically Swiss sport is run over the marathon distance of 42 kilometres. It developed from a purely military exercise in the 1930s to a sport discipline in its own right. Participants wear battle dress and carry at least 6.2kg, including a back pack and military-issue rifle. Civilian footwear is allowed.(Pictures…
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Traditionally, a white elephant is an object, building or project whose usefulness is doubtful and whose cost was often exorbitant. Swiss photographer Christian Helmle spent seven years tracking the most impressive of these beasts in the wilds of Europe, publishing the results in his book, “White Elephants” (Jovis Verlag Berlin).
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Paul Senn, who was a photojournalist for the Zürcher Illustrierte, DU and more than 40 other Swiss and foreign magazines, is renowned as a major chronicler of everyday Swiss life in the war and crisis years between 1930 and 1950. But Senn was much more: he was a pioneer of colour photography and a socially-committed…
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For World Refugee Day on June 20, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees engaged Swiss light artist Gerry Hofstetter to bathe four well-known Swiss bridges in blue light. The colour of peace is intended to highlight solidarity with refugees and displaced people, and act as a reminder that there are still 20 million people…
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The Federal Sports Festival in Frauenfeld, northern Switzerland, is the biggest sporting event in the country and this year it is marking its 175th anniversary. Some 56,000 athletes and gymnasts from almost 2,000 clubs are competing against each other in 171 disciplines.
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Between 1940 and 1960, watchmaker and amateur photographer Arnold Zwahlen (born in 1916) immortalised the inhabitants of his local village, Leukerbad, in canton Valais. His photographs are a voyage back in time to a world that has long disappeared. The book “Arnold Zwahlen – village photographer” is published by Benteli-Verlag (Bern and Zurich) and includes…
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The exhibition “Expressionism from the mountains – Kirchner, Bauknecht, Wiegers and the Group ‘Rot-Blau'” at the Kunstmuseum Bern in 2007 for the first time took a comprehensive look at the intense artistic and human interaction between Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) and a group of younger colleagues during his early years in Davos.
