Cédric Weidmann (born 29 July 1991) is a Swiss writer, philologist and literary promoter. He holds a doctorate from the ETH Zurich (2022).^[1][2]

In 2006, at the age of 15, Cédric Weidmann created his first author literary blog.^[3] He participated in cantonal and national literary competitions, published in literary periodicals, studied and then taught Germanistics, literary theory, and economic history at ETH Zurich.^[1][2]

Since 2013, he has been a member of the editorial board of the Zurich countercultural magazine delirium [de].^[1][2]

In 2022, he defended his doctoral dissertation, "Anticipating Nostalgia. Calculating the transformation of language and capital" (German: Antizipation der Nostalgie. Das Kalkül der Verklärung von Sprache und Kapital), in which, based on the material of science fiction works and political-economic theories, including the Marxist theory of surplus value, he developed a typology of nostalgia as a sociocultural phenomenon that devalues the past in favor of the future ("productive" type) or the future in favor of the past ("extractive" type).^[4] In the same year, he became the head of the Aargauer Literaturhaus in Lenzburg, an institution in whose work he had been actively involved since 2009.^[1][2][5]

Weidmann has published short stories, articles, essays on science fiction, futurology, video games, collective literary practices, and the relationship between literature and economics in various German-language media, including delirium, entwürfe [de], Das Magazin [de], Das Narr [de] (Switzerland), The Gap (Austria), Süddeutsche Zeitung, litradio (Germany),^[6] the thematic anthology Biocatalyst. Psychoactive Literature (German: Wirkstoff. Psychoaktive Literatur, 2022), etc.^[2]

Weidmann is the silver medallist of the Swiss Philosophy Olympiad [de] (2010),^[3][7] winner of the national literary competition Permanent Place (German: Stammplatz, 2011)^[3] and the Wartholz Literary Prize [de] (Austria, 2017).^[1][2][8][9]