

Stéphane
Houlmann
Stéphane grew up in the city of Bern. He has obtained several degrees and worked in a variety of fields. He started his own business in 1997, today's Bergdorf company.
Stéphane is currently involved in establishing the new guesthouse in Val-de-Travers, which is due to open in late autumn 2026.
press & awards
JANUARY 2022
The Need for Lighthouse Projects
From an Interview with Raum & Wohnen: «Although author and interior designer Mirko Beetschen maintains a critical distance to the mountains, they have influenced his life and work: Having grown up on Lake Thun and lived in Bern again for six years, he has concerned himself with the allure of the Alps. And he wonders how mountain regions can overcome the merely touristic attraction and become coveted places to live and work.»

June 2016
MARCH 2022
Inexorably Thrilling
From the review of the «Aroser Zeitung» on the reading of ‹Bel Veder›: «How author and performer Mirko Beetschen and sound artist Barbara Schirmer raised tension to the extreme is inimitable. Both have proven themselves artists of the first rank, who know how to create mood and build atmosphere.»

June 2016
MAY 2019
Literary Award for «Bel Veder»
Mirko Beetschen is awarded with the literary prize of Bern's Office of Culture 2019. – «With ‹Bel Veder›, author Mirko Beetschen successfully creates a visually stunning and thrilling Gothic Novel, in which he playfully messes with the reader's expectations. The setting is an old grand hotel in the Swiss Alps in the autumn of 1946.»

June 2016
JUNE 2019
Zeitgeist
NZZ review about our Insider guide: «The rest of Switzerland likes to scoff about Bern’s proverbial slowness and that things don’t move here. In their well written and beautifully illustrated guide, Mirko Beetschen and Stéphane Houlmann prove that this prejudice definitely doesn’t apply to the local culture and gastronomy scene.»

June 2016
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