About: Fredi Lerch

Alfred “Fredi” Lerch (born 10 April 1954 in Roggwil) is a Swiss social critic journalist and publicist. From 1982 to 2001, Lerch was editor of the Swiss weekly newspaper Die Wochenzeitung (WOZ). At that time he published a “two-volume history of Bernese subculture between 1955 and 1970 under the title of Begerts letzte Lektion (1996) and Muellers Weg ins Paradies (2001)”. From 2001 to 2006 he was a member of the Municipal “Literary Commission” (Literarische Kommission) of the City of Bern. Since 2002 he works as a freelance journalist and is member of a press office called “puncto” in Bern. From 2006 to 2008, he published, together with , the collected works (Werkausgabe) of the Swiss writer . He is the founder of the nonconformism archive at the Swiss National Library.