Beatrix von Steiger

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Beatrix von Steiger (born December 22, 1889 in Bern , † August 23, 1974 in Muri bei Bern ) was a Swiss cultural worker .

Life

Von Steiger was the daughter of Alice de Bary and Hans von Mülinen . The Bernese women's rights activist Helene von Mülinen was an aunt of hers. She graduated from high school in Bern and then trained in recitation , which she practiced at home and abroad. She was an "amateur actress and member of the board of the Bernese Heimatschutztheater ". In 1914 she married Eduard von Steiger . In 1923 she founded the Bern Theater Association together with others and worked in the Bern Lyceum Club a . a. as "Delegate in the Central Committee" and from 1947 to 1966 as President of the Bern Section. In 1956 she was elected to the Swiss UNESCO Commission. She was also a "board member of the Swiss National Costume Association and the Oberhofen Castle Foundation". In 1967 she published her work Us mym Länke . Your estate is in the Bern Burger Library .

literature

  • Berner Heimatschutz-Theater 30, 1974, No. 1, p. 3 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Hans Braun: Beatrix von Steiger. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ Beatrix von Steiger in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern
personal data
SURNAME Steiger, Beatrix von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss cultural workers
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 1974
Place of death Muri near Bern