Michael Hegglin

Michael Hegglin was born in the small Swiss town of Zug on Lake Zug. After attending school and pursuing numerous other activities there, he later lived—excepting short stays in various places—in Zurich and in Mexico. After studies in German and Latin American literature, philosophy and history, he went on to learn the craft of filmmaking in an autodidactic, experimental manner. He then co-founded and worked for Swiss Television’s news magazine program 10vor10. Thereafter he returned to work in Mexico as a correspondent for Latin America before once again settling in Europe, where (alongside cooking) he devoted himself to his favorite pastime, documentary filmmaking. Today, Michael Hegglin lives with his family in Zurich.

Filmography (selection)

1997 Friede für einen Tag - Bischof Samuel Ruiz besucht ein Dorf im indianischen Chiapas (Peace for a Day – bishop Samuel Ruiz visits a village in native-American Chiapas)

2001 Hände weg von diesem Weib – Die Schweizerin Carmen Mory vor Kriegsgericht (Hands off this Woman – Swiss woman Carmen Mory stands before a military tribunal)

2002 Stiller Has – Vom Blues am Alpenrand (Stiller Has – Blues on the Edge of the Alps)

2003 Der tintenblaue Eidgenosse – Eine literarische Expedition mit Peter von Matt (The Ink-Blue Swiss – a literary expedition with Peter von Matt)

2005 Ein Leben für zehntausend Tänze – Die Volksmusikethnologin Hanny Christen (A Life for Ten Thousand Dances – The Folk Music Ethnologist Hanny Christen)

2007 Die zwei Gesichter des Gabor Bilkei (The Two Faces of Gabor Bilkei)

2008 Bilder, die die Welt bedeuten – Von der Wirklichkeit in der Fotographie (Pictures that Mean the World – On Reality in Photography)

2010 Wollust unter der Soutane

Awards

Zürcher Fernsehpreis 2002 for Hände weg von diesem Weib

Katholischer Medienpreis 2011 for Wollust unter der Soutane