Anna Sartory

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Anna Sartory (born April 16, 1882 in Oberriet , † August 9, 1976 in St. Gallen ) was a Swiss writer and editor .

life and work

Anna Sartory was the daughter of Heinrich Emil Sartory and Maria Anna Elisabeth née Stoffel. She attended the Catholic Girls' Secondary School in St. Fiden , worked from 1898 to 1907 as an office clerk and in 1910 received the diploma for the higher teaching post in Freiburg . From 1910 to 1912 she worked as an association secretary and from 1913 as editor of the magazine «Katholische Schweizerin», newly published by the Swiss Catholic Women's Association. From 1923 she was the publisher and editor of the Catholic magazine "Frauenland" and from 1930 to 1940 she also worked for the "Kanisius Voices" published in Freiburg.

In her literary work, Anna Sartory mainly presented the résumés of historical women.

Works

  • Catherine of Alexandria . Play in 5 acts , 1905
  • Judith , the heroine of Bethulia. Drama in four acts , 1907
  • Maria Candlemas , 1908
  • Sacrificial flames. Play in four acts , 1912
  • Wiborada . Commemorative game in five pictures for the millennium of her death (926) , 1926
  • A Woman's Work: Memories of Countess M. Th. Ledóchowska . Review of the creation of her work, the St. Petrus Claver Sodality, and Switzerland's share in it, for the silver jubilee of the Swiss central office in Zug , 1930

literature

  • Andrea Grandjean-Gremminger: Sartory, Anna. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Esther Vorburger-Bossart: Strong women dramatized: Anna Sartory. In: Marina Widmer, Heidi Witzig : blossom white to jet black. St. Gallen women - 200 portraits. Zurich 2003. ISBN 978-3-85791-444-7 , p. 332.
  • Esther Vorburger-Bossart: "What is the need of the time ..." Identities in Catholic women's education. The central Swiss teaching nurses institutes Baldegg, Cham, Ingenbohl and Menzingen 1900–1980 . Friborg 2008. ISBN 978-3-7278-1641-3 , p. 246.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of Secondary School pita in St. Gallen
  2. ^ Obituary in: Die Ostschweiz, August 12, 1976.
personal data
SURNAME Sartory, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberriet
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1976
Place of death St. Gallen