Executive Board
Prof. Dr. Thomas Strässle, Vice president ZKN
Photo: Xandra M. Linsin
Thomas Strässle teaches modern German literature at the University of Zurich and leads the multidisciplinary Y Institute at the University of the Arts of Bern. He is also a trained concert flutist. As president of the Max Frisch foundation at ETH Zurich, he extensively engages with matters of artistic estates. He and Florian Schmidt-Gabain founded the Centre for Artistic Estates in 2019.
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since 2019
Vice president of the Centre for Artistic Estates
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since 2017
Titular Professor at the University of Zurich
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since 2014
Member of the critic’s circle of the literature club on Swiss Television (SRF)
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since 2013
President of the Max Frisch-Stiftung
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since 2013
Head of Y Institute, University of the Arts Bern
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2011
Visiting Professor at the Università degli Studi di Siena
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2009 - 2013
SNF-funded Professor at the University of the Arts of Bern
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2008
Habilitation, University of Zurich, Venia in Modern German and Comparative Literature. Habilitation Thesis: “Salt. A literary history”.
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1999 - 2000
Master of Philosophy in European Literature, University of Cambridge
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1999
Doctorate with a thesis on Grimmelshausen’s “Simplicissimus Teutsch”, University of Zurich
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1999
Concert diploma, with distinction
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1998 - 2005
Student of Aurèle Nicolet’s (transverse flute)
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1997
Licentiate, University of Zurich