Christine Lötscher elected to the Foundation Board
The Zurich-based literary and cultural scholar is a member of the Max Frisch Foundation's board of trustees.
At this year's spring meeting, the Max Frisch Foundation unanimously elected Christine Lötscher as a new member of the Foundation Board. The board will thus be expanded from six to seven members. Thomas Strässle, President of the Max Frisch Foundation, emphasises: "Christine Lötscher is an excellent literary scholar, has an outstanding network and is very experienced in dealing with the literary public. I am delighted to welcome her to the Foundation Board."
Christine Lötscher is a literary and cultural scholar. She studied German and History in Zurich and Munich and is now Professor for Popular Literature and Media at external page ISEK - Popular Culture Studies at the University of Zurich (UZH). She has worked as a literary critic for many years, including for the external page Tages-Anzeiger, external page SRF 2 Kultur, external page Republik and was a member of the external page Literaturclub programme on Swiss television. She is currently researching climate and (Swiss) literature, Johanna Spyri and the #BookTok phenomenon at the interface of pop culture and new reading and writing practices in the digital space. She is a member of the steering committee of the external page Centre for Contemporary Literature (ZLG) at UZH, a founding member of the Zurich Science Fiction Network of ETH Zurich and UZH and co-editor of the online magazine external page geschichtedergegenwart.ch.