Cédric Weidmann

Cédric Weidmann (born 29 July 1991) is a Swiss writer, philologist and literary promoter. He holds a doctorate from the ETH Zurich.

Biography In 2006, at the age of 15, Cédric Weidmann created his first author literary blog. He participated in cantonal and national literary competitions, published in literary periodicals, studied and then taught Germanistics, literary theory, and economic history at ETH Zurich. In the same year, he became the head of the Aargauer Literaturhaus in Lenzburg, an institution in whose work he had been actively involved since 2009.

Weidmann has published short stories, articles, essays on science fiction, futurology, video games, collective literary practices, and the relationship between literature and economics in various German-language media, including delirium, , , (Switzerland), The Gap (Austria), Süddeutsche Zeitung, litradio (Germany), the thematic anthology Biocatalyst. Psychoactive Literature (, 2022), etc. winner of the national literary competition Permanent Place (, 2011)