Hansjürg Zumstein, 1957 - Swiss Press Award
Hansjürg Zumstein
1957
Member of the Jury Swiss Press Video
Born in Bern in 1957, Hansjürg Zumstein has been part of the documentary and reporting team since 2009. He studied history at the Universities of Bern and the Sorbonne and began working for Swiss television in 1989. He has worked for programs such as Kassensturz, Zehn vor Zehn, and Rundschau. Zumstein specializes in the portrayal of complex processes. Several of his documentaries have won awards. Films: Swissair – the last years and the last days (2006) The recall, the secret operation against Christoph Blocher (2008) The case of how UBS got caught up in the maelstrom of the financial crisis (2008) The UBS file, background to case no. 09-20423 (2009) The euro on the brink, how Germany and Greece triggered the euro crisis (2010) Kachelmann’s case (2011) The forced resignation (2012) (Hildebrand case) The Armstrong system (2013) The painful farewell (2014) Treason (2015) Gotthard – the building of the century (2016) General strike 1918 Bird eat or die – the Swiss watch crisis (2019).
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