The Volkshochschule Zürich is Zurich's first provider of cultural and scientific general education for adults. founded in 1920, it offers a wide range of courses from astronomy to philosophy, from psychology to politics and literature, always at an academic level. Its second mainstay is foreign languages. The portfolio is supplemented with movement, design and communication offers. Since summer 2019, the VHSZH has also been offering a professional course in "Literary Writing" as well as smaller offers in the field of writing. The VHS Zurich is accessible to everyone and is financially self-supporting.
Perception and stimulus processing: How autistic people process stimuli, patterns, sounds and social cues, and how this shapes their experience of the ...
16.09.2026
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Volkshochschule Zürich
Bob Dylan and religion
And the Good Samaritan, he’s getting dressed, he’s getting ready for the show, he’s off to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row… The poet and ...
16.09.2026
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Volkshochschule Zürich
Mutual Ruin: The Correspondence between Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch
Over the decades, many myths had grown up around the relationship between Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch, mostly to Max Frisch’s disadvantage. At the ...
17.09.2026
19:00
Volkshochschule Zürich
Why the Roman Empire fell
Was it the power of corrupt emperors, deadly epidemics, economic strain or pressure from so-called ‘barbarians’ that led to the downfall of the Roman ...
21.09.2026
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From Cubism to Surrealism
In 1925, at the end of his apprenticeship with the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, Alberto Giacometti created a self-portrait that was still clearly inspired by ...
21.09.2026
19:00
Volkshochschule Zürich
Living with radiation
Radioactivity and radiation – whether of natural origin, caused by human activities or released in accidents – are part of our environment. Ionising ...
