Martin Meyer President of the Board Swiss Institute of International Studies

Martin Meyer, born in 1951, is a journalist, publicist and book author. From 1974 to 2016 he was editor of the feuilleton of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and from 1992 to 2016 he was head of the feuilleton. He studied history, German literature and philosophy at the University of Zurich and received his doctorate in 1976 with a dissertation on Schiller and German Romanticism. Other books followed on Ernst Jünger, on the theme of the end of history, on Thomas Mann's diaries, and on the war of values. Most recently published by Carl-Hanser-Verlag are: Piranesi's Future - Essays on Literature and Art (2009), the large monograph Albert Camus - Living Freedom (2013), and Gerade gestern. Vom allmählichen Verschwinden des Gewohnten (2018) and - with KEIN & ABER - Corona (2020), the first narrative in literary form on the subject of the pandemic. In 2003 Meyer received the prestigious European Essay Prize of the Charles Veillon Foundation, in 2015 the Kythera Prize, and in 2016 in Frankfurt's Paulskirche the Ludwig Börne Prize. Meyer is, among other things, a corresponding member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry and a member of the Zürcher Gelehrten Gesellschaft. Since 2008 he has also been a delegate, and since 2013 president, of the board of the Swiss Institute of International Studies. In 2011, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of St. Gallen for his journalistic and scientific work.