
Magazine Launch
Fabrikzeitung Nr. 345. Sanatorium 1900—2019.
Jan. 30th, 7pm – 10pm, 2019
The first Alpine sanatorium was built in Davos in the late 19th century. Inspired by a modernist impulse, practitioners developed holistic therapies focussing on fresh and uncontaminated air, sun, rest and alimentation – mainly to overcome tuberculosis. With the discovery of the first antibiotic cure in the 1940s, the sanatoriums began their fall from grace. The once magnificent and respected medical facilities would be deserted. Today, most are repurposed as wellness hotels or rehab clinics.
At all times, the sanatoriums proved to be a meeting place to discuss such things as health, medicine, mysticism, politics, literature or art. Keeping up the tradition, the contributors of this issue languished on the snowy balconies of Davos and Crans-Montana, or reported from Agra, Asheville and Helwan.
Guest editors: Line-Gry Hørup and Melina Wilson
Concept and Design: Huber/Sterzinger with Line-Gry Hørup and Melina Wilson
Photographs by Jürgen Beck with a poem by Leila Peacock and frames by Rosie Eveleigh
Written contributions by Céline Burnand, Paul Elliman, Parker Hatley, Line-Gry Hørup, Leila Peacock, Andreas Schwab, Melina Wilson
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