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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Madeleine Hirsiger

Madeleine HIRSIGER is a Swiss journalist, editor, presenter and producer whose career has been closely linked to Swiss television and film culture. She joined Swiss television’s Tagesschau in 1972 as a trainee and later became its first parliamentary correspondent. From 1986, she headed the film department, overseeing and presenting film programmes such as Kino Top and CinéClip. From 2004, she was responsible for feature films, television films and documentaries within the Swiss Audiovisual Pact. In 2009, she joined the cultural platform arttv.ch as a board member and later worked there as a film editor. In the same year, she received the Swiss Cultural Pearl Award at the Locarno Film Festival for her contributions to Swiss cinema.

Filmography

(selection) Jugend und Sexualität (1979, doc)

Madeleine Hirsiger at IFFR