Michael Guggenheimer

As freelance journalist and photographer in Zurich, Michael Guggenheimer grew up in Tel Aviv and Amsterdam. After studying Contemporary History and Social Psychology, he first became a newspaper editor before working for seven years in public relations for cultural projects in Eastern Switzerland and for thirteen years as press spokesman and head of the Department of Communications at the Swiss Cultural Foundation Pro Helvetia. He has written a number of books and published widely in newspapers and journals. In 2007, he was the co-curator, with Katarina Holländer, of the exhibition “Ein gewisses jüdisches Etwas”, a contribution to the European Day of Jewish Culture in Zurich (a collaboration with Omanut, an organization promoting Jewish culture in Switzerland, of which he is the Vice Chair). In 2008, he curated exhibits in Munich‘s Stadtmuseum and at the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt.