29 Notable alumni of
University of Applied Sciences Zurich
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The University of Applied Sciences Zurich is 1331st in the world, 464th in Europe, and 10th in Switzerland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 29 notable alumni from the University of Applied Sciences Zurich sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Bruno Ganz
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- television actorstage actorfilm directorfilm actor
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Bruno Ganz was a Swiss actor whose career in German stage, television and film productions spanned nearly 60 years. He was known for his collaborations with the directors Werner Herzog, Éric Rohmer, Francis Ford Coppola, Theo Angelopoulos and Wim Wenders, earning widespread recognition with his roles as Jonathan Zimmerman in The American Friend (1977), Jonathan Harker in Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) and Damiel the Angel in Wings of Desire (1987).
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H. R. Giger
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- film directorarchitectpaintersculptordesigner
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Hans Ruedi Giger was a Swiss artist best known for his airbrushed images that blended human physiques with machines, an art style known as "biomechanical". He was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for the visual design of Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien, and was responsible for creating the xenomorph alien itself. His work is on permanent display at the H. R. Giger Museum in Gruyères, Switzerland. His style has been adapted to many forms of media, including album covers, furniture, and music videos.
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Vicky Krieps
- Enrolled in the University of Applied Sciences Zurich
- Studied in 2005-2009
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- stage actortheatrical directortelevision actoractorfilm actor
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Vicky Krieps is a Luxembourgish-German actress. She has appeared in a number of American, Luxembourgish, French, and German productions. Her breakout role was in the London-based period film Phantom Thread (2017), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
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Anne-Sophie Mutter
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- violinistmusic educator
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Anne-Sophie Mutter is a German violinist. Born in Rheinfelden, Baden-Württemberg and raised in the nearby town Wehr, Mutter began playing the violin at age five and pursued further studies in Germany and Switzerland. She was supported early in her career by Herbert von Karajan, made her orchestral debut with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1977, and rose to international prominence in the early 1980s. She has since performed as a soloist with leading orchestras worldwide and has recorded more than 50 albums, mostly with the Deutsche Grammophon label, earning four Grammy Awards, two ECHO Klassik awards, two Opus Klassik awards, and a Grand Prix du Disque. Despite her success and fame in the 1980s, Mutter's interpretive style often divides critics.
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Oliviero Toscani
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- photographerdesigner
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Oliviero Toscani was an Italian photographer, best-known worldwide for designing controversial advertising campaigns for Italian brand Benetton from 1982 to 2000.
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Arthur Honegger
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- film score composerclassical composermusicologistcomposermusic educator
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Oscar-Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. Honegger was a member of Les Six. For Halbreich, Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher is "more even than Le Roi David or Pacific 231, his most universally popular work".
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Kim de l'Horizon
- Enrolled in the University of Applied Sciences Zurich
- Studied transdisciplinarity
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- writerplaywright
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Kim de l'Horizon is a Swiss nonbinary novelist, playwright and thespian. In 2022, they won the German Book Prize and the Swiss Book Prize for their debut novel Blutbuch.
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Philippe Jordan
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- conductorpianist
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Philippe Jordan is a Swiss conductor and pianist.
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Peter Voser
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- businessperson
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Peter Robert Voser is a Swiss businessman, who is the chairman of the Swedish-Swiss company ABB. He was the CEO of the Dutch-British corporation Royal Dutch Shell from July 2009 to December 2013. He was interim CEO of ABB from April 2019 to February 2020. He started his career at Royal Dutch Shell in 1982, working in a number of finance and business roles in different countries. From 2002 to 2005 he was chief financial officer for ABB and Royal Dutch Shell. In 2004, he was appointed Royal Dutch Shell's chief financial officer (CFO) and then CEO in July 2009.
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René Burri
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- photographerphotojournalist
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René Burri was a Swiss photographer. Burri was a member of Magnum Photos and photographed major political, historical and cultural events and key figures of the second half of the 20th century. He made portraits of Che Guevara and Pablo Picasso as well as iconic pictures of São Paulo and Brasília.
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Othmar Schoeck
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- pianistconductorcomposer
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Othmar Schoeck was a Swiss Romantic composer and conductor. He was known for his considerable output of art songs and song cycles but also wrote operas, notably the one-act Penthesilea, premiered in Dresden in 1927, and instrumental works, including two string quartets and concertos for violin (for Stefi Geyer), cello and horn.
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Nik Bärtsch
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- record producerwritercomposerjazz musicianpercussionist
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Nik Bärtsch is a Swiss pianist, composer, bandleader, record producer and author from Zürich.
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Klaus Huber
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- conductoruniversity teachercomposermusic educatorviolinist
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Klaus Huber was a Swiss composer and academic based in Basel and Freiburg. Among his students were Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Jarrell, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm, and Kaija Saariaho. He received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2009, among other awards.
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Xavier Koller
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- screenwriterdirectorfilm director
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Xavier Koller is a Swiss film director and screenwriter. He is most known for his work on the Disney live action film Squanto: A Warrior's Tale, an adventure historical fiction film based on the life of Squanto, and his film Journey of Hope, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990.
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Markus Imhoof
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Markus Imhoof is a Swiss film director, screenwriter, theatre and opera director.
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Max Huber
- Enrolled in the University of Applied Sciences Zurich
- Studied in 1935-1939
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- designergraphic designergraphic artistvisual artistphotographer
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Max Huber was an influential Swiss graphic designer.
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Paul Burkhard
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- composerwriter
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Paul Burkhard was a Swiss composer. He primarily wrote oratorios, musicals and operettas. The contemporaneous and similarly named Swiss composer Willy Burkhard was no relation to him.
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Rudolf Lutz
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- conductoruniversity teacherpianistcomposermusic educator
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Rudolf Lutz is a Swiss organist, harpsichordist, conductor and composer.
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Oliver Schnyder
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- pianistmusician
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Oliver Schnyder is a Swiss classical pianist.
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Alexey Retinsky
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- composerpainter
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Alexey Retinsky was born on 14 November 1986 in Simferopol, Crimea. He is an Austrian composer and artist of Russian-Ukrainian origin.
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Andrea Štaka
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producerfilm editor
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Andrea Štaka is a Swiss film director and screenwriter, best known for winning the Golden Leopard at the 59th Locarno International Film Festival in 2006 for her film, Das Fräulein.
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Sasha Huber
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- artistvideo artist
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Sasha Huber is a contemporary artist living and working in Helsinki, Finland. Her work deals with colonial and post-colonial relationships negotiated by African and Caribbean diasporas. She uses photography, moving image, site specific performance, landscape, research and collaboration to explore individual and collective performances of colonial-era pseudo science, racial categorization, migration within the transatlantic slave trade, memorialization and transnational capitalism.
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Pia Gyger
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- writerpsychologist
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Pia Gyger was a Swiss specialist for special education, psychologist and Zen master of the White Plum Sangha lineage. She was the co-founder of the Lassalle-Institute within the Lassalle-House in Bad Schönbrunn/Zug, Canton of Zug. She was co-initiator of the Jerusalem-Project.
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Ursula Mauch
- Enrolled in the University of Applied Sciences Zurich
- 1954-1957 studied chemistry
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- politician
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Ursula Mauch is a Swiss chemist, educator and politician who served on the National Council (Switzerland) from 1979 to 1995. She was the first female member to represent the Canton of Aargau constituency. She previously served on the Grand Council of Aargau from 1974 to 1980 for the Social Democratic Party. She is the mother of Corine Mauch, who currently serves as Mayor of Zurich.
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Yves Netzhammer
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- video artistanimatorsculptornew media artistphotographer
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Yves Netzhammer is a Swiss artist who lives and works in Zurich. Born in Schaffhausen, he studied architecture there and later obtained a diploma at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich, department of visual design. He has been working with video installations, slide projections, drawings and objects since 1997. Since 2006 Netzhammer publishes online in the blog Journal for Art, Sex and Mathematics. In 2007 he represented Switzerland at the 52nd Venice Biennale together with Ugo Rondinone, Urs Fischer and Christine Streuli.
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Myriam Thyes
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- television producerphotojournalistvideo artistartist
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Myriam Thyes is a new media artist from Switzerland. She lives and works in Düsseldorf.
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Alexander Hahn
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- video artistvisual artistdigital artist
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Alexander Hahn is an artist working with electronic media. An artistic innovator in his field, he integrates the time-based form of video with practices of computer imagery and print, animation, virtual reality, installation, and writing. He addresses the electronic image as a technological metaphor for perception, memory and dream: signals oscillate between lighting up and blanking out, between sensory presence, mental apparition and oblivion. As art historian Dominique Radrizzani writes in the catalog Astral Memories of a Flying Man: "It is this luminous realm of dream that Hahn’s great art of light and shadow rediscovers, using video like those infinite eyes which night has opened in us (Novalis)... The terrains explored by Hahn are not those of the terrestrial globe anymore, but rather those of the ocular globe, the inward looking hemisphere of the eye."
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Karim Noureldin
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- artistuniversity teacher
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Karim Noureldin is a Swiss visual artist.
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Dina Yakerson
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- painter
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Dina Yakerson is an Israeli art historian and artist. She is the daughter of Shimon Iakerson.
