Barbara Lukesch

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Barbara Lukesch (born November 4, 1954 in Dresden ) is a Swiss journalist and non-fiction author.

Life

In 1957 Barbara Lukesch moved from Dresden to Hamburg , where she attended elementary school and grammar school. In 1972 the family moved to Switzerland. In 1974 she graduated from the canton school in Zug . From 1975 to 1976 she worked as a primary school teacher at the Cham elementary school . She then studied German, English and literary criticism at the University of Zurich and graduated in 1981 with a licentiate.

Parallel to her studies, she taught German for foreigners at the Zurich vocational school and English at KV Zug, where she became a teacher of German, English and political studies in 1982.

From 1984 to 1989 she was an editor at Swiss Week . In 1989 she began her training in television and from then on worked as a freelance journalist in the "Presseladen" office community. In 1990 she became the mother of a son. In 1993 she received the Emma Journalist Award for a report on menstruation .

From 1996 she trained to become an adult educator. In 2000 she received a lectureship at the media training center in Lucerne. In 2006 she moved to the Q27 studio community in Zurich District 5 and became a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland and at the Institute for Applied Media Studies at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur . In October 2007 she moved back from the Q27 to the press shop.

She is married to the journalist René Staubli.

Journalistic activity

Barbara Lukesch is a freelance journalist specializing in research, reports, portraits and interviews from the fields of society, business, politics, psychology and sport. In addition, she works as an editor for Swiss television (e.g. for the programs 10vor10 , Rundschau , Der Club ).

She writes articles for national Swiss print media (e.g. for Annabelle , Facts , NZZ am Sonntag , Tages-Anzeiger , Weltwoche ), but also books on subjects ( AIDS , sexual abuse ) or personalities ( Niklaus Meienberg , Hanspeter Uster ). As a seminar leader, she offers companies, institutions and individuals individual "text coaching", public relations and courses in interview techniques, research, writing, dealing with the media, rhetoric and negotiation skills. She also writes publications, brochures and documentation of studies and projects on a commissioned basis.

Publications (selection)

  • Biederland and the arsonist. Niklaus Meienberg as the occasion (as co-editor), Limmat, Zurich 1988
  • AIDS time. I can no longer live like your negative , edited by Koni Nordmann and Heiko Sobel (collaboration), everyday life, Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-905080-09-5 .
  • with Ruth Ramstein : Sexual abuse. The Möriken case and its consequences , Observer-Buchverlag, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-85569-207-6 .
  • Fanatics. A tribute to the fans of FC Basel . A photo book by Angelo A. Lüdin (collaboration), Schwabe, Basel 2001, ISBN 3-7965-1739-0
  • Runner, rent mouth, king . Lawyers at the intersection of law and power. 17 portraits, ed. v. Bruno Glaus and Karl Lüönd (collaboration), Orell Füssli, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-280-06056-7
  • "It is a miracle that it worked". 16 years government council: Talks with Hanspeter Uster , Xanthippe, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-9522868-8-5 .
  • How is career going? Strategies of smart women , Wörterseh, Gockhausen near Zurich, 2015, ISBN 978-3-03763-054-9 .
  • with Peter Schneider : "Peter Schneider, how is a marriage beautiful?" Conversations about partnership and love. Wörterseh, Gockhausen 2018, ISBN 978-3-03763-100-3 .

Web links

credentials

  1. ↑ Presentation of the publisher ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Lukesch, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden