Betty Wehrli-Knobel
Betty Wehrli-Knobel (born July 13, 1904 in Haslen GL , † February 13, 1998 in Brissago TI ) was a Swiss journalist , women's rights activist and writer .
Life
She was born Bettina Knobel in 1904 in the hamlet of Zusingen near Haslen in the Glarus hinterland. She graduated from business school in Neuchâtel and trained as a journalist in London . From 1931 to 1936 she worked as a career advisor and vocational school teacher in Glarus . Afterwards she was mainly active as a writer and journalist, for example as editor-in-chief of the Bündnerin (a supplement to the Neue Bündner Zeitung ) or the Schweizer Frauenblatt .
In 1936 she married the engineer Paul Wehrli († 1945). From 1951 she lived as a freelance journalist in Zurich and often published under her single name Knobel . Her books Women in Our Country from 1970 and With Women in Conversation from 1974 are interesting documents of the Swiss women's movement .
Awards
- 1959 honorary gift from the city of Zurich
- 1976 Ida Somazzi Prize
Works (selection)
- Until the Christ Child came and other Christmas stories . Gotthelf, Bern 1935
- Between day and evening . Poems. Moham, Chur 1935
- Danish travel letters . Schweizer Spiegel, Zurich 1952
- Between the worlds . Novel. Schweizer Frauenblatt, Winterthur 1959
- Florence Nightingale . Schweizerisches Jugendschriftenwerk (SJW 824), Zurich 1963
- Brig. A novel about a young girl . Rotapfel, Zurich 1965
- Young girl, your job. New Swiss career choice book (as editor). Rotapfel, Zurich 1966; 2nd supplement A. 1969
- Sensations of silence . Rotapfel, Zurich 1968
- Women in our country. Encounters and conversations . Rotapfel, Zurich 1970
- South side of the Alps. Ticino miniatures . Rotapfel, Zurich 1971
- In conversation with women . Rotapfel, Zurich 1974
- Here in the south. New miniatures from Ticino . Rotapfel, Zurich 1977
- The bow of the years . Poems. Rotapfel, Zurich 1979
- Forgotten trip? A childhood in the Glarus hinterland . New Year's Messenger, Linthal 1979
- In the land of the camellias. Encounters . Rotapfel, Zurich 1980
- Routes. Review, encounters, outlook . Rotapfel, Zurich 1984
literature
- Betty Wehrli-Knobel . In: Doris Stump, Maya Widmer, Regula Wyss (eds.): German-speaking women writers in Switzerland 1700–1945. A bibliography . Limmat, Zurich 1994, pp. 117–119
Web links
- Literature by and about Betty Wehrli-Knobel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Silke Redolfi: Betty Wehrli-Knobel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 24, 2012 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wehrli-Knobel, Betty |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Knobel, Betty (maiden name); Wehrli, Betty |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss journalist, women's rights activist and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1904 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Haslen GL , Switzerland |
DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1998 |
Place of death | Brissago TI , Switzerland |