BIOGRAPHY

CURRICULUM VITAE

Mein Lauf durchs Leben...
In Basel kam ich am 17. März 1939 zur Welt und besuchte dort auch die Primarschule (1946-1950) und das Humanistische Gymnasium (1950-1958). Nach der Matur zog es mich in die weite Welt.
Ein Stipendium ermöglichte mir ein Studienjahr (1958/59) am Williams College in Williamstown (USA). Englisch wurde dabei für mich zu einer wichtigen Sprache, die mir Reisen in und Kontakte auf der ganzen Welt ermöglichte.

Wer sich auf Deutsch interessiert über die  Sportpsychologie, die mich seit meinem ersten Kontakt im Jahre 1965 am 1. Weltkongress für Sportpsychologie in Rom nicht mehr los liess, kann das tun über die von Sabine Rehmer im 2001 zu meinem  Abschied an der ETH verfasste CD-Rom "Sportpsychologie? Was ist Sportpsychologie? Was macht ein/e Sportpsychologe/in?" Weiter hier >

... and in English
I was born on March,17th,1939 in Basel (Switzerland), where I finished school with a Liberal arts A-level in 1958 at the „Humanistisches Gymnasium". With a scholarship I could travel (by boat!) to the US and enrole as an exchange student at a liberal art college in Williamstown (Mass.). To be a student at Williams College was an exiting and also very challenging year.
Back in Switzerland I got a diploma as a P.E.-teacher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. I got married to Christina Thöni from Meiringen. She is also a P.E.-teacher. We lived outside Zurich, Zurich the Little Big City.
In 1967 I got a Ph.D „magna cum laude“ in Applied Psychology at the University of Zurich.
After some years working in Human Resources I decided to go back to sport in order to combine my two deegres. By the Swiss Institute for Sports in Magglingen I was asked to developp the Swiss Coach Education Program, later I was responsable for the library and the audiovisual means in teaching, and finally I became vicedirector of the Magglinger Institute.
In 1971 we moved with our family from Zurich to Magglingen, where we still have our house.
Christina started a dance studio in Biel and in 1989 she could open up her own dance center.
She also directs a group of 15 children and youngesters, the KiJuBallett (www.kiju.ch).
In 1985 I was asked to come back to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology as head of the P.E.-Departement. Every year we got more students. From about 30 per year we went on to more than 100 students per year. With so called „Complementary studies“ we prepared the P.E.-students also for other professional fields in „the world of sport“ beside teaching in a school.

My time at ETH Zurich was very busy and very challenging. To have more time for applied Sport Psychology and for publications I decided to leave Zurich and ETH in September 2001 and to start Excellence:C&C, Excellence Coaching & Consulting.

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TEACHING

Psychology & Sport Psychology
- Universities of Basel and Bern 1968 - 1975
- Institute for Applied Psychology in Zürich 1968 and 2003
- Swiss Federal University for Sports in Magglingen 1968 - 1985
- University of Hamburg (Germany) as visiting Professor in 1979
- University of Zürich 1995
- ETH Zürich 1985-2001
Alltogether almost 100 dissertations with topics on Sport Psychology were guided.

Sport Management
Directing the training colleges for Sport Manager offered by Swiss Olympic 1971-1986

Sport Psychology & Coaching Sciences
Together with Oscar Plattner (World Champion in Cycling) in courses for Cycling Coaches organised by the Olympic Solidarity Program in
- 1978 Bagdad (Irak)
- 1978 Hongkong
- 1978 Manila (Philippines)
- 1980 Kunming (China)
- 1981 Wellington (New Zealand)

Magglingen Symposia
Directing 5 Magglingen Symposia between 1974 and 1985

Spotlight as Presenter
- 1976 Aggression in Sport, at the Preolympic Congress in Montreal (Canada)
- 1980 Education, Sport and Society, at the Preolympic Congress in Tbilisi (Ex-Sovietunion)
- 1983 Emotion in Sport, at the FEPSAC Congress in Magglingen (Switzerland)
- 1993 Mental Training, at the 1. International Congress on Physical Education in Isfahan (Iran)
- 2003 Sport Psychology in Europe, at the FEPSAC Congress in Kopenhagen (Danmark)

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ENGAGEMENTS

National
- Founding Director of the Swiss Coaching Courses (1969 - 1974)
- SASP Swiss Association for Sport Psychology (since1968)
- Ombudsman for „Sport“, the Swiss sport newspaper (1986 - 1988)

International