Brigitte Hürlimann

Brigitte Hürlimann (* 1963 in Basel ; legal resident in Walchwil ) is a Swiss journalist and writer .

Life

After attending school in Basel and Lucerne , she attended courses at the media training center in Lucerne. She then worked as a freelance journalist for the Luzerner Tagblatt and as a reporter for the Tages-Anzeiger . This was followed by a longer stay in Paris before she returned to Switzerland and worked for three years in the studio group kontrast in Zurich .

Hürlimann then enrolled for a second training course to study law at the University of Freiburg and graduated in 2004 with the dissertation “Prostitution. Your regulation in Swiss law and the question of immorality »and the associated doctorate . Since 1993 she has been writing regularly for the weekend supplement of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung ; In 2000 she moved to the Zurich department as an employee . From 2005 she was an editor there and in particular was responsible for legal issues and court reporting from the canton of Zurich . Her articles also appeared in the daily newspaper . At the end of 2017, Brigitte Hürlimann left the NZZ and took over the editorial management of the Plädoyer magazine on March 1, 2018 , and was also a freelance court reporter for the online magazine Republik . On December 1, 2018, she gave up the editorial management of Pleadoyer and has been working for the republic on an 80% basis ever since .

Awards

• 1994: Zurich Journalist Prize (Swissair Prize)
• 1999: Zurich Journalism Prize
• 2001: Gabriel-Grüner-Scholarship (together with Peter Dammann for Die Menschen von Kozloduj )
• 2008: Uri Media Prize for The Miracle of Andermatt. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . No. 112/2008 (PDF; 6.20 MB)
• 2019: Honorary doctorate (Doctor iuris honoris causa) from the University of Bern

Publications (selection)

• Prostitution. Your regulation in Swiss law and the question of immorality . Schulthess Legal Media , Zurich 2004, ISBN 978-3-72554-712-8 .
• The most important contracts at a glance. An overview of the most common contracts in everyday life. With checklists and templates . Saldo Consuprint, 2006, ISBN 978-3-90795-522-2 .
• Stories from Bethlehem. A children's hospital in Palestine . Dölling and Galitz Verlag , Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86218-004-2 .
• Pauses for thought. Thirty reports from three decades. Edited by Christian Güntlisberger and Brigitte Hürlimann, Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2012, ISBN 978-3-03823-751-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Brigitte Hürlimann. Court reporter. In: Republic .
2. ^ Editor of the NZZ Zurich. Brigitte Hürlimann (brh.) ( Memento from December 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (imprint).
3. ^ Republic. Brigitte Hürlimann is now permanently employed. In: persoenlich.com . 4th December 2018.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Zurich Journalist Prize 13. Previous winners. Zurich Journalist Prize Foundation, p. 33 f. (PDF; 3.33 MB).