Johannes Rühl
Member of the jury since 2020, president since 2024
Johannes Rühl is an ethnomusicologist and curator of music programmes. He managed the cultural office in Basel and was responsible for socio-cultural centres in Husum and Heidelberg. In addition, he has also held management positions in the cultural departments of Rottweil and Freiburg im Breisgau.He was director of the Scuola Teatro Dimitri before working at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and teaching at a number of universities in Switzerland and abroad. His various research projects, which tend to focus on the sociology of music, concentrate on the musical traditions of the Alpine region and the conditions in which they have evolved to the present day. From 2009 to 2019, he was responsible for the programme of the Alpentöne international music festival in Altdorf. Johannes Rühl has also managed projects and music programmes for numerous cultural institutions and festivals, including the Freiburg Jazz Festival, Zwingli Jubilee in Zurich, Festival Neue Musik Rümlingen 2013 and 2023, Rudolstadt Festival, Festival de Música de Alturas in Lima, Pro Helvetia Cairo, Teatro San Materno Ascona, Label Suisse Lausanne and most recently the Theater Casino Zug. As part of SUISA100, he devised the project “40 for 100, music for the year 2123”. Johannes Rühl has lived for more than 15 years in Loco in the Onsernone valley in Ticino, where, in addition to his many other activities, he established the artist residence "casadirosa.ch".
