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Facts and Figures – Full CV in Numbers Lawrence Grimm

Born July 13, 1978 in Zurich, Switzerland
Nationality Australian/German/Swiss

    Résumé in reverse chronological order

    • Present | lives, works & scribbles in Zurich
      Teatime for a Universe, a cartoon collection
      by Lawrence Grimm
    • 12.2017 – today | Publishing Director
      Strapazin Comic Magazine
    • 2019 | Double page "Züri brännt!"
      Strapazin No. 137
    • 2019 (and 2018) | editorial illustrations
      Republik online magazine
    • 2019 | Kunststipendien der Stadt Zürich
      group exhibition, Helmhaus Zürich
      audience vote: one of 3 "Favorites of the Hearts"
    • 2019 | Teatime for a Universe – Microchaos
      sam scherrer contemporary, Zurich
    • 2019 | Story Worlds – cartoon and comic workshop for children youths
      Bildschule Aargau, Schule für Gastaltung Aargau
    • 2018 – today | The Critical Thinker Cartoons
      Critical Thinking ETH Zurich magazine 42 and web
    • 2018 | Momentum Cartoons: motion & emotion
      Filmbulletin (in 8 yearly issues)
    • 1. – 3.2018 (occurs yearly) | Teacher Focus Film (3 theory inputs, project support)
      "Art Foundation Course" of the Lucerne School of Art and Design
    • Co-Organising political cartoons against the end of public TV/radio (No Billag, 2018)
    • 2017 | exhibition in the gallery sam scherrer contemporary
    • 2017 | Cartoon Kaleidoscope on a new website
      www.teatimeforauniverse.com
    • 2016 – today | Mini Creatures
      Part 1 (2018: part 2), also on Instagram
    • 2016 | 5 day workshop CTI Entrepreneurship: Business Creation
      HSLU – Lucerne School of Business
    • 2015 – 16 | Inputs on pricing, self-marketing, social media, e-learning/Twitter
      ZHdK/HSLU
    • 2014 | Sketches for a novel
    • 2012 | Unterwegs im Land der Phantasie
      (On the Way in Phantasy Land) illustrations for a book about the Metzenthin Children’s and Youth Theatre by Rosmarie Metzenthin and various contributors, published by Bachmann München
    • 2012 – 2017 | Artistic Assistant
      "Art Foundation Course" of the Lucerne School of Art and Design | Partially also web editor for the research department
    • 2011 – 2012 | kooaba Image Recognition
      Marketing and Media Designer
    • 2008 – 2014 | Exhibitions
    • 2006/07 | Internship (6 months, part-time)
      ARF/FDS Verband Filmregie und Drehbuch Schweiz
    • 2005 – 2008 | board member of Zürich für den Film, film-political activities
    • 2005 | 3-month writing-scholarship in Berlin from the Canton of Zurich, Fachstelle Kultur
    • 2004 | Student Academy Award finalist
      (foreign competition) for the diploma film
      Pas de deux
    • 2003 ongoing | Teatime for a Universe
      the beginning of the cartoon project
    • 2003 – 2010 | Writing stories
      Working on screenplays for short and feature films
    • 2003 | Graduation
      as film director/-writer of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)
    • 1999 – 2003 | Student
      of the film-department of the Zurich University of the Arts; main subjects: writing, directing, editing; various award winning short films
    • 1998 – 1999 | Art Foundation Course
      at the Zurich University of the Arts
    • 1994 | Leading role in a feature film
      Shrouded in Mystery / Der Nebelläufer
    • 1978 – 1998 | Growing up
      in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland
    • July 13, 1978 | Date of birth

    CV for a Universe

    • Birthday:
      September 20, 2003 at 8.00 pm
      in Zurich, Switzerland
    • Domicile:
      A table with a chair in an undefined white space
    • Size:
      Still expanding
    • Profession:
      Time counter
    • Hobbies:
      Keeping all the stars inside
    • Likes:
      Tea – all kinds!
    • Dislikes:
      Entropy
    • Co-tenant:
      Esmeralda the Plant
    • Pets:
      Aliens, lots of them
    • Power animal:
      The Xingu River ray
    • Power stone:
      Snow flake obsidian
    • Dreams:
      "To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub, for in that sleep of death, what dreams may come" by the Master of Words


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