Die Zeit: Councillor Markus Notter becomes a columnist
The outgoing member of the Zurich government, Markus Notter, will write a weekly column for the Swiss edition of Die Zeit starting in August 2011.
The 50-year-old deals with political topics in his texts, the Zeit publishing house announced on Thursday, according to SDA. The Zurich justice director will write the texts with his "characteristic humor.
The Social Democrat will leave the Zurich cantonal government in spring 2011. He decided last summer not to run for re-election this year after 15 years in office. He had been elected to the Zurich cantonal government in January 1996 to succeed Moritz Leuenberger, after Leuenberger became a federal councillor. Prior to that, Notter was the full-time mayor of the Limmattal town of Dietikon for six years. (SDA)
