Kim de l'Horizon & Co.: That's the new column team at Tages-Anzeiger
From mid-February, a new team of five well-known columnists will take over the Tuesday column in the Tages-Anzeiger from Rudolf Strahm, Laura de Weck, Barbara Bleisch and Michael Hermann.
Rudolf Strahm's column marks the end of an era: For more than a decade, he, Laura de Weck, Barbara Bleisch and Michael Hermann have written for the Tages-Anzeiger on a rotating basis, analyzing relevant topics. Starting next week, a new team will take over: In the future, the five personalities will alternate on a weekly basis and share their perspectives on life in Switzerland, their political visions and analyses of social developments with readers.
This is the new column team
Kim de l'Horizon from the literary scene will approach the present, society, the earth - "this here-and-now," as Kim calls it - in the column. To write, Kim will always go somewhere in public space and incorporate encounters and observations into the texts. Kim de l'Horizon's debut novel "Blood Book" won the Swiss and German Book Prizes last year.
Petra Ivanov, crime writer, will provide personal insights into her life as a writer starting in June. The starting point for her column will be experiences while working on her books, such as meetings with prisoners or visits to forensic medicine.
Kathrin Bertschy, GLP National Councilor and economist, will address Switzerland's capacity for political reform in her column: What does it take for reforms to succeed? Where is Swiss politics capable of learning, and where is it not? Bertschy will address key players in the form of letters and always look abroad.
Cenk Korkmaz, comedian, radio host, copywriter and author will test a selected personality for a month at a time and report on it. Lazybones, do-gooder or productivity machine: with his series of self-experiments, Cenk wants to find out which personality makes him happiest.
Andri Silberschmidt, FDP National Councilor and gastronomy entrepreneur, asks: "What if...?" In doing so, he consistently thinks (supposed) utopias through to the end, such as if all drugs were legal? If Switzerland were the leading exporter of lab-grown meat? Or if autonomous vehicles were to deliver the mail to households?
