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Enno Schmidt (* November 14th, 1958 in Osnabrück) is a german artist and activist of the universal Unconditional Basic Income UBI. He is co-founder of the Basic Income Initiative in Switzerland and in Taiwan. He lives in Basel.

Life and Career
Enno Schmidt grew up in Osnabrück and studied painting at the Städelschule, in Frankfurt am Main. He exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Germany and abroad and was awarded the Frankfurt Art Prize of the Lions Club.

In 1989 he took part in innovation talks in an industrial company, brought in new ideas with the perception of an artist, brought the company and other artists together for the start of the art and economic future project 'Tree-Cross', Avenue Kassel-Eisenach „Aktion Baumkreuz“, became co-founder of 'Enterprise Art and Economy - Expanded, Ltd', whose managing director he was until 1996. Schmidt is a member of the Social Sculpture Research Unit of Oxford Brookes University and was involved in the establishment of the Zukunftsstiftung Soziales Leben in the trust office of GLS Bank in Bochum. At the Interfacultative Institute for Entrepreneurship at the University of Karlsruhe Interfakultativen Institut für Entrepreneurship, the chair of Götz Werner, he held a teaching position according to his own concept from 2005 to 2007.

In 2006 Enno Schmidt and the entrepreneur Daniel Häni founded the Initiative Grundeinkommen Schweiz in Basel. His film „Grundeinkommen – ein Kulturimpuls“, which he released together with Daniel Häni in 2008, reached over a million viewers and was translated into 20 languages. In October 2013, the initiative was able to submit 126,000 signatures for a referendum on the introduction of the unconditional basic income in Switzerland in Berne, which led to the national referendum (Volksabstimmung Schweiz) on 5 June 2016. The campaign and actions of the Basic Income Initiative received worldwide media coverage and stimulated discussion in many countries. Enno Schmidt works in the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) and is internationally active as an initiator and lecturer.

TV/Video Interviews

 * the REAL news, 2013: The Activist Behind Switzerland's Referendum for Guaranteed Income
 * Thom Hartmann Show, 2016: The Swiss Reject A Basic Income Because It Wasn’t High Enough!
 * Al Jazeera, Katar, 2016: Should governments provide a minimum wage for everyone?
 * SET GO, 2016: Basic Income era is coming. (in Chinese and English)- The basic income initiative and direct democracy in Switzerland, with Enno Schmidt
 * i24, 2016: Equal income for all? The man behind 'Basic Income Switzerland' explains
 * CNBC, 2016: Basic income vote alone was ...Interview with Enno Schmidt
 * TEDxBasel, 2016: Discussing the merits of Unconditional Basic Income
 * KENFM, 2016: An encounter between Enno Schmidt and Bilbo Calvez

Radio Interviews

 * Swissinfo, 2014: Should everyone in Switzerland get a basic income from the government?
 * Deutschland Radio Kultur, 2016: Was ist der Wert der Arbeit?
 * Radio Sputnik, 2016: Unconditional basic income is a Stepp to more freedom and responsibility
 * Radio Sputnik, 2016: In 20 years every second job will be taken over by robots

Newspaper Interviews

 * FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), 2009: Geld verdienen ohne zu arbeiten Interview with Enno Schmidt, Susanne Wiest, Götz W. Werner
 * NYT (New York Times Magazine) 2013: Switzerland’s Proposal to Pay People for Being Alive - Annie Lowry from a conversation with Enno Schmidt
 * PBS NEWSHOUR, 2014: How a stupid painter from Switzerland is revolutionizing work Paul Solman interviewing Enno Schmidt, London
 * BIEN, 2015: Toru Yamamori interview with Enno Schmidt
 * TAZ, 2016: Weder spektakulär noch radikal Stefan Pangritz, Interview with Enno Schmidt
 * BIEN, 2016: Swiss referendum leader discusses basic income

Lectures

 * 2009: Grundeinkommen + Krisenbewältigung Lecture by Enno Schmidt at Scala, Basel
 * 2012 Was ist Wirtschaft? Was ist Einkommen? Enno Schmidt on the podium with writer Adolf Muschg at the book launch "Die Befreiung der Schweiz", Theater am Neumarkt, Zurich
 * 2013: Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen jetzt. Contribution for Wahlweise, Berlin
 * 2014: Kerngedanken zum Grundeinkommen Lecture at Stadtcasino, Basel
 * 2016: Bedingungslosigkeit – die kulturelle Dimension des Grundeinkommens Lecture at the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, Zurich
 * 2016: „Grundeinkommen von A bis Z“ Contributions to the book launch, with Albert Wenger on the podium at the Zunfthaus zur Meisen, Zurich
 * 2017: Enno Schmidt explains the idea of the BGE political party (YouTube-Video, 26. April 2017)

Movies (selection)

 * 2008: Grundeinkommen – ein Kulturimpuls
 * 2009: Wir machen Demokratie – Grundeinkommen im Bundestag
 * 2012: Stimmen zum Grundeinkommen
 * 2012: Ansichten eines Mönchs
 * 2012: Kultur ist die Basis der Wirtschaft
 * 2012: Grundeinkommen im Blick der Wissenschaft
 * 2013: Tanz in den Mai
 * 2013: Goldener Oktober
 * 2013: Schweizer Rekordsammeln
 * 2014: Income and Health
 * 2014: Pay for it
 * 2015: Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen in China

Video Conversations

 * 2011: Macht das Grundeinkommen faul? mit Theo Wehner, Basel
 * 2012: Argumente gegen das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen mit Sascha Liebermann, Basel
 * 2012: Wir brauchen keine Anreize mit Marina Weissband, Berlin
 * 2012: Hartz IV bricht das Grundgesetz mit Ralph Boes, Basel
 * 2012: Es kann keinen Mangel an Geld geben mit Werner Landwehr, GLS Bank, Berlin

Books

 * 1994, Enno Schmidt, Klaus Wolbert (Hrsg.): Idee Unternehmen Wirtschaft und Kunst – erweitert Discussion Forum Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt
 * 2016, Enno Schmidt, Daniel Straub und Christian Müller (co. Autoren): Grundeinkommen von A bis Z, Limmat Verlag, Zürich. ISBN 978-3-85791-806-3

Articles

 * Tagungsband, 2006: „Symposium Grundeinkommen: bedingungslos“ - The reasons for the basic income from art, Universität Karlsruhe
 * Männerzeitung, 2011: Unconditional Basic Income?
 * grundeinkommen.ch, 2015: An income to fight the mafia

Group-Exhibitions

 * 1990: "The Pleasures within Distances", Galerie W.I.D.O.W., Sydney
 * 1994: Frankfurter Preisträger, Galerie ak, Frankfurt/M
 * 1998: "8x8x8", Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/M
 * 1999: "On Paper", Stalke Galerie, Kopenhagen
 * 2000: "Alles 700", Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/M
 * 2000: "Seventy in two thousend on the road to Meikle Seggie", Stanley Picker Gallery, London
 * 2003: "Ökonomie der Kunst", Projektzentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden
 * 2005: "Produkt und Vision", Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben, Berlin

Solo-Exhibitions

 * 1990: "Cure", Galerie Sander, Kassel
 * 1990: "Stand der Dinge", Heine Fabrik, Offenbach am Main
 * 1993: "Werrabrücke", Galerie Strauss und Adamopoulos, Frankfurt/M
 * 1995: "Kronen", Galerie Strauss und Adamopoulos, Frankfurt/M
 * 1998: "Unternehmensbetrachtung", Berger Kirche, Düsseldorf
 * 2000: "Oxford Series", The Arena, Oxford

Individual Verifications

 * Enno Schmidt - official website
 * Grundeinkommen – ein Kulturimpuls
 * Wir machen Demokratie – Grundeinkommen im Bundestag
 * Tanz in den Mai
 * Goldener Oktober
 * Income and health
 * Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen in China