Prof.
Graziano Martignoni, Psychiatrist,
Psychoanalyst, University of
Fribourg and Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana
Prof.
Claudio Risé, Psychoanalyst, Journalist and Writer, University
dell'Insubria, Varese (I)
Prof.
Ilario Rossi, Anthropologist, University of Lausanne, Dep. of
Medicina e Salute Comunitaria e Fac. di Scienze Sociali e Politiche
Dr. Giovanni Simona, Geographer, Alta Scuola Pedagogica del Canton Ticino e Gruppo Pangea
April 2004
Dear
Ladies and Gentlemen,
With
this letter we wish to inform you on the last events and give you some
indications concerning the next significant expiry.
The appeal has been promoted during the month of April 2003 and after some months more than 300 subscriptions were collected in Ticino, in Switzerland but also abroad. We wrote some articles for the press and realized radio transmissions on the subject.
We
contacted the sole administrator of the Foundation, Mrs Maria Danioth of
Zurich, to whom we explained the appeal’s aim. Already at the
beginning of the month of September, the appeal’s diffusion has been
interrupted in accordance with Mrs Danioth, after her meeting in
Bellinzona (on the 22nd August) together with Lawyer Fritz
Schiesser (speaker of the Council of States) with
representatives of the Ascona’s municipality and representatives of
the Canton Ticino, with the aim to define which help this authority
could have given and which roll they could take to save and re-launch
the Foundation’s activities.
During
the month of November, we met the administrator together with Mrs Paola
Cerruti, municipal member of Ascona and responsible for the culture
department. They told us that a "ad interim" Foundation’s
Council would have been
established composed by the administrator Mrs Danioth, by a
representative of the Ascona’s municipality, Mrs Paola Cerruti and by
a representative of the Canton Ticino, Mr. Mauro Martinoni, director of
the University Studies Office. This information has also been
transmitted to the media (see attached). We were also been told that
this Foundation’s Council would have started to work during the month
of December or at the beginning of January, after the modification
of the statute.
We were later made known that the Institution of the Foundation’s
Council ad interim to be able to re-launch Eranos was depending on a
obtainment of a guaranteed bank loan of about 4 million Swiss francs.We
know that a demand has been made to The “Banca Stato del Canton Ticino
by the Eranos Foundation with the mediation of the Ascona municipality.
No official information on the negotiation’s result has been given by
now. This fact has delayed the Foundation’s Council ad interim job who
had already invited some experts in order to give a new cultural address
to the Foundation. The meeting of these seven experts with the
Foundation Council, already fixed for January, did not take place.
The institution of a Foundation’s Council ad interim is a delicate
operation: on one side the statutes should be modified giving to each
member a decisional role and on the other side to define exactly
the global amount of the debt which can change on a significant
measure depending on the decisions of the administrator Mrs Danioth and
the sole creditor, the Volkart Foundation of Winterthur.
Mr.
Daniele Bonetti, besides having searched to re-launch Eranos and the
meeting between the public authority and the sole administrator, made a
report on the Foundation’s condition which has not been published but
has been transmitted to the Federal Vigilance of Foundations (Inside
Department of Bern) to be discussed and cleared.Mr. Bonetti’s job goes
on, even if he is no more in charge of the Eranos Foundation by the
administrator, and aims to make clear the responsibility and to consult
the actors involved in the financial problem to try to relieve the
debt’s heaviness. Thus he would like to avoid the property’s sale
that would be, in our opinion, a great historical and
above all symbolical
loss (see for example the genius loci ignoto).
In
this context of uncertainty, we are writing you to ask your help which
we can express in the following way:
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a cultural help. If you are in contact with institutions that
desire to promote activities at the Eranos Moscia’ Foundation in the
future, please let us know it by writing us a letter that we will than
transmit to the competent authority. These proposals would in fact
reveal an actual cultural vitality of Eranos and would permit to
build a network of resources
and institutions to be able to support the cultural re-launch of the
Eranos manifestations.
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a
financial help. We ask you to let us know if the institutions,
associations, seminars
in which you operate would agree to invest in financial ways to
support the Foundation.
Depending
on new events, we would like to launch again an appeal to involve other
persons. Please find here attached an appeal’s copy to be diffused, if
you have the occasion. We think that is also important to inform the
public opinion on the evolution.
We
thank you in advance for your support and wait for your eventual reply.
Prof.
Graziano Martignoni
Prof. Claudio Risé
Prof. Ilario Rossi
Dr.
Giovanni Simona
Supporter of the appeal to save the Eranos Foundation Ascona
(Internet: www.eranos.ch,
mail: eranos.forum@bluewin.ch)
Post
address and email:
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Further informations: tel/fax 0041 91 791 88 41 e-mail:
giovanni.simona@asp.ti-edu.ch