Brigitte Schnegg

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Brigitte Schnegg (born September 16, 1953 ; † March 29, 2014 in Bern ) was a Swiss historian , professor and head of the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies (IZFG) at the University of Bern .

Live and act

Brigitte Schnegg saw herself as part of the women's movement that shaped her in Bern and anchored her in the university environment.

From 1983 to 1986 she headed the office of the Swiss Feminist Science Association , together with Katharina Belser. At the same time, she worked as a young assistant at the Institute for History at the University of Bern and campaigned for the recognition of feminist gender history and feminist science in the academy from an early age. In 1983, together with Professor Regina Wecker from Basel and other historians in Bern, she organized the first Swiss Conference on Women's History (later known as the Swiss Women's Historians' Conference).

In 1999 she did her doctorate at the Historical Institute of the University of Bern with Beatrix Mesmer with the thesis "'The second page on the leaf of humanity". Gender discourses and gender relations in the Swiss Enlightenment. "

Since it was founded in 2001, Schnegg has headed the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Research (IZFG) at the University of Bern, which under her leadership grew to around 20 employees within a few years. It deals with gender issues in the context of sustainable development .

Schnegg was co-founder of the nationwide network for the establishment of gender research at Swiss universities and, from 2010, was co-chair of the newly launched Swiss Society for Gender Research (SGGF). In 2012 and 2013 she took part in negotiations of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York as a member of the Swiss delegation .

Brigitte Schnegg von Rütte lived in Bern. She died of heart failure in late March 2014. She leaves behind a husband and two daughters.

Brigitte Schnegg Prize

In honor of Brigitte Schnegg, the Brigitte Schnegg Prize honors outstanding scientific work in the field of gender research in Switzerland that makes a contribution to socio-political changes. The prize was awarded for the first time at the SGGF General Assembly in 2017.

Publications (selection)

  • with Christa Binswanger et al. (Ed.): Gender Scripts: Unruly appropriations of gender norms . Series: Politics of Gender Relations, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-39014-7 .
  • with Anne-Lise Head: Poverty in Switzerland - La pauvrete en suisse 17th – 20th century Swiss Society for Economic and Social History, Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 1989.
  • with Gaby Sutter and Sonja Matter: Between Integration and Exclusion: Care and Social Work in the City of Bern 1900 - 1960. Bern 2008, IFGZ.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Podium | Table round Sustainable University Day 2014. Brigitte Schnegg. In: u-change.ch. Swiss Academy of Sciences, accessed on April 30, 2020 .
  2. ^ Elisabeth Joris: A combative scientist. In: woz.ch - The weekly newspaper. April 17, 2014, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Andrea Maihofer and Lilian Fankhauser: Brigitte Schnegg - who was she? In: Verein Feministische Wissenschaft Schweiz (Ed.): FemInfo (PDF) . No. 36 , 2014, p. 27 .
  4. ↑ About us. In: izfg.unibe.ch. Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Research IZFG, accessed on April 30, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Michèle Amacker and Tanja Rietmann: In memory of the director of the IZFG, Prof. Dr. Brigitte Schnegg (1953-2014) . In: Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies at the University of Bern (ed.): Genderstudies . No. 25 , 2014, ISSN  1663-7879 , p. 1 ff . pdf
  6. ↑ Schnegg Brigitte's bereavement. In: todesangeboteportal.ch. FamAds AG, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Brigitte Schnegg Prize. In: gendercampus.ch. Gender Campus editorial team, accessed on April 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schnegg, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian, head of the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies at the University of Bern
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1953
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 2014
Place of death Bern