Cultural activist, Anarchist and Bar owner.
Gavin Christopher Newsom is an American politician and businessman. He is the 40th and current governor of California, since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 49th lieutenant governor of California from 2011 to 2019 and as the 42nd mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011.
For 25 years she had her own cooking school. Now she retires to her own cooking lab. Raum Acht is the place where she comes to understand her own cooking processes.
A hundred years ago, a retirement home for farm workers was set up in Öschberg, near Koppigen in Canton Bern. After decades of labouring on local farms, they are able to spend their last years in familiar surroundings and among friends.
To end it all or live her identity as a woman? That was the dilemma facing Stefanie Stalder, a transgender farmer in rural Lucerne. She chose life and began the process of sexual reassignment just over a year ago. At 48, she can breathe freely again.
is an American cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography along with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle. Diffie and Hellman's introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, that helped solve key distribution—a fundamental problem in cryptography.
Former Middle East correspondent of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Author of many books on Islam, Arabia and the Middle East.
Heinz Hubli was a butcher with his shop located in the popular Langstrasse neighbourhood. He was famous for his Cervelats, the Swiss national sausage. Many said his was the best.
is a Swiss designer, entrepreneur and an educator. He is the founder and principal designer of Fuseproject, an award-winning industrial design and brand development firm.
Portrait for SonntagsZeitung on the occasion of the opening ceremony of the New De Young Museum in the San Francisco Golden Gate Park.
Actress and for many years the voice of any announcement of the Swiss Railway.
Hansueli Bauman grew up in a farming community. He has always owned tractors, but today he only keeps them as a hobby to use them for woodcutting in the near forest. His Pampa is a rare licence model built after the famous Lanz Bulldog.
is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing Joy Turner in My Name Is Earl, for which she won an Emmy Awards as well as a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Slab City is largely a snowbird community in the Sonoran Desert located in Imperial County, California, 251 km northeast of San Diego and 272 km southeast of Los Angeles within the California Badlands. It is used by recreational vehicle owners and squatters from across North America. It took its name from concrete slabs that remained from the abandoned World War II Marine Corpsbarracks of Camp Dunlap.
He was one of the great German language actors of our time. Whether on stage or on screen, his career could take of because he knew where his roots were. His humble, working-class background did not prepare him for the course his life should take. According to his own words, his background taught him to value focus, discipline and hard work.
Slab City is largely a snowbird community in the Sonoran Desert located in Imperial County, California, 251 km northeast of San Diego and 272 km southeast of Los Angeles within the California Badlands. It is used by recreational vehicle owners and squatters from across North America. It took its name from concrete slabs that remained from the abandoned World War II Marine Corpsbarracks of Camp Dunlap.
Oakland Military Institute (OMI), formally the Oakland Military Institute College Preparatory Academy, is a charter school affiliated with the Oakland Unified School District in Oakland, California. OMI's stated mission is "to provide a structured and rigorous academic program where cadets develop as leaders, scholars, critical thinkers, and citizens."
was a Red Army naval officer and photographer, best known for his World War II photograph of a Soviet soldier Raising a flag over the Reichstag, in Berlin, capital of the vanquished Nazi Germany.
Gold was born in Cleveland, Ohio in a Russian Jewish family, and raised in Lakewood, a community he was later to memorialize in his first book, Birth of a Hero, published in 1951 by Viking Press. He moved to New York City at age 17 after several of his poems had been accepted by New York literary magazines. While there, he studied philosophy at Columbia University and became involved with the burgeoning Beat Generation, which resulted in a lifelong friendship with writer Allen Ginsberg.
She was born in Basel in 1943 and made a name for herself with her insightful photo stories. Her great perseverance led her to excel in a field that had previously been dominated by men. Starting in the 1960s, she traveled extensively on behalf of publications such as Die Woche, Das Magazin, Du or NZZ, first in Europe and later all around the world. Pia Zanetti documented solidarity and resistance against injustice, but she also tirelessly sought out those happy moments in which dreams seem to become reality.