Walter Bretscher
No. 13, December 2025 — Eugen Sorg: The dissolution of certainties happens slowly, barely perceptibly. Then suddenly everything is different. What once seemed immovable begins to slip, revealing itself as fleeting. What once seemed eccentric or absurd becomes a variant of normality.
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Hotel Atlantis: An Eternal Dream
No. 12, December 2024 — David Hunziker: In a somewhat loveless street art aesthetic, the picture is emblazoned on the wall next to a gloomily furnished bar: Muhammad Ali, his bandaged hands raised, ready to strike.
Muhammad Ali Peace II
No. 11, December 2023 – Dominik Bachmann: Muhammad Ali stayed at Zurich's Hotel Atlantis at the foot of the Üetliberg. During this time, Muhammad Ali trained in the forests of Zurich's local mountain. In addition to his physical preparation, the boxer also took time to write philosophical musings and poems on the hotel's stationery.
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Peter Heutschi
No. 10, December 2022 – David Hunziker: If you type his name into a search engine today, you will still come across a few of his children's stories, most of them from the seventies.
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Jeanette Jaggi
No. 9, November 2022 – Pablo Rohner: “I don't know if my father took me because she was there.” Jeannette Jaggi still remembers well her meeting with Maryum Ali, Muhammad Ali's eldest daughter, in December 1971.
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Mac Foster
No. 8, May 2022 – Pablo Rohner: Ali is on his way back to Olympus, and Foster is hot on his heels. Three months later, the two faced each other in the ring in Tokyo.
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Stefan Sadkowski
No. 7, December 2021 – David Hunziker: He was an autodidact, an asphalt cowboy and a barfly in Zurich's Niederdorf, according to “Muhammad Ali, Zurich, 26.12.1971,” the illustrated book with historic photos by Eric Bachmann.
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Hansruedi Jaggi
No. 6, July 2021 – David Hunziker: “Hansruedi always has to have something big going on, something gigantic, something that mystifies him.”
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Jürgen Blin
No. 5, April 2021 – Pablo Rohner: As a boy, Jürgen Blin moved from farm to farm in the Flensburg area, as a helper to his father, who was a master milker and violent to him and his mother.
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Boxing Day
No. 4, December 2020 – David Hunziker: It is said that Hansruedi Jaggi briefly considered holding the Muhammad Ali vs Jürgen Blin fight in a circus tent in Vaduz.
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10,000 $ boots
No. 3, December 2020 – Pablo Rohner: In the 1960s, the Soviet oil company Nafta maintained an office in Zurich with an IBM ballpoint typewriter, a telex machine and a telephone.
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Evil is just a cloud
No. 2, October 2020 – David Hunziker: «I don't like fightin' here – I understand this is a peaceful country, it’s never been at war with nobody. But for one hour that night, this will be a violent country.»
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Muhammad Ali Peace 1971
No. 1, May 2020: Zurich-based Hansruedi Jaggi brought boxing legend Muhammad Ali to Zurich shortly before Christmas 1971, but not without informing photographer Eric Bachmann.
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