Charlotte Peter

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Charlotte Peter (2017)

Charlotte Elisabeth Peter (born June 11, 1924 in Zurich ) is a Swiss historian , journalist , travel journalist, tour guide and author .

Life

Charlotte Peter grew up with her sister Ruth (* 1928) in Zurich as the daughter of the engineer and director of plant construction at Escher Wyss AG Robert Peter (1893–1972) and Amalie née Woertz. She attended schools in Zurich and studied history , art history and economic history at the University of Zurich , where she in 1952 with the thesis The Saline Tirolisch Hall in the 17th century doctorate was. During her studies, she worked as a tour guide for the Society for Academic Travel .

After completing her studies, Charlotte Peter successfully applied as an assistant at the American University of Kansas , where she earned the funds for her first big trip through Japan and India . After her return, she worked as a ghostwriter and journalist. She was several times the participants at the International Frühschoppen of Werner Höfer .

At the beginning of the sixties she was in charge of the culture department at Zurich Week and wrote for Swissair . In 1963 she became editor-in-chief of the German-language edition of Elle magazine and in October 1978, after the merger of Elle with annabelle zur annabelle / Elle , her editor-in-chief together with Werner Wollenberger . At the end of February 1980, they resigned together after “the two of them broke up in a guerrilla war”. Until February 1981, Peter was the “consulting editor-in-chief” (under the new editor-in-chief René Bortolani) and until the merger of annabelle with femina and the departure of René Bortolani at the end of August 1982, editor of the travel department and travel reporter of the Jean Frey Group , Wollenberger wrote until his column on his serious illness in mid-May 1980. Peter also worked for Swiss television and was responsible for a travel program for young people, wrote as a freelance journalist for the Züri-Woche and from time to time reports for the Weltwoche and the balance sheet .

Since her retirement she has been working as a freelance travel journalist. She still goes on study trips, such as to Siberia and Mongolia. Sie hat Reisen «under the cultural direction of Dr. Charlotte Peter »to India / Bangla Desh , but also to Cuba , Brazil , Indonesia , Thailand , Japan and China , which she has now visited over a hundred times. She has authored numerous books in which she reports on her experiences from around the world and gives lectures.

Peters travel books are characterized by respect and interest in the country visited and its inhabitants. She is against not visiting countries like Burma or the Soviet Union or today still North Korea for political reasons, because this would “additionally punish the population”, who also “depend on uncensored information from visitors”. For her travels, she has received permission to use two Swiss passports in order to avoid difficulties when entering the country because of the entry of countries that are not acceptable to one side or the other.

Works

  • The story of an ugly girl: a slightly different biography. Münster, Basel 2018, ISBN 978-3-905896-97-8 .
  • When travel was invented. Biographical non-fiction book. Münster, Basel 2017, ISBN 978-3-905896-72-5 .
  • The old gods return. Offizin, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-906276-39-7 .
  • I am Sufi Tabib. Two women on a journey to become a guru. Offizin, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-906276-12-0 .
  • Traveling is always nice. Pendo, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-85842-305-X .
  • with Kurt Ulrich, Rolf D. Schürch and Michael Merz: Children of our world. Avanti, Neuchâtel 1984.
  • with Kurt Ulrich: New York. Hallwag, Bern 1983, ISBN 978-3-444-06028-1 .
  • with Georg Stark: Market day around the world. Mondo, Lausanne 1978.
  • Modern Amazons. In: Emma . February 1977.
  • Ceylon. Sri Lanka. Hallwag, Bern 1974 (1990 edition, ISBN 3-444-06031-9 ).
  • with Margrit spokesman : Far East (= travel correctly ). Dumont, Cologne 1974, ISBN 3-7701-0736-5 .
  • Visit the Far East. Swissair, Zurich 1972.
  • Visit USA. Swissair, Zurich 1970.
  • A job for Martin. Sauerländer, Aarau 1964.
  • The tragic death of Herbert M. In: Blooming branches. Stories. Edited by the Zurich Writers' Association. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1964.
  • Reporters in Africa. The almost unbelievable adventure of the journalist Mark. Sauerländer, Aarau 1963.
  • Course 502 Far East. An adventurous aviation story. Sauerlander, Aarau 1960.
  • Mr. Progress and the New Babylon. Artemis, Zurich 1959.
  • Alexj Progress and the new Babylon. Artemis, Zurich 1956.
  • The emperor and the goldfish. Parodic fairy tales. Artemis, Zurich 1955.
  • The wide world. The great adventure. Artemis, Zurich 1954.
  • The Tirolisch Hall salt works in the 17th century. An economic history study (= Zurich studies on general history. Economy, Society, State , Vol. 5). Europe, Zurich 1952 (also Diss. Univ. Zurich).

Private

Charlotte Peter lives in Zurich and Paris ; she was never married and has no children. She feels connected to Buddhism. In addition to German, she speaks French, English and Spanish and can read Chinese. In 1970 she ran unsuccessfully on the list of the Landesring der Independencies for the Zurich City Council (she reached the 1st substitute place in District 2 ), in 1975 for the National Council .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lilli Binzegger: Mrs. Peters stopover. In: NZZ Folio . April 2002.
  2. ^ Title entry of the dissertation , catalog of the library network Nebis .
  3. ↑ From the press. In: The deed . December 31, 1963, p. 4.
  4. ↑ René Bortolani: Throwing off all the classic female ballast. In: Mariana Christen, Johanna Gisler and Martin Heller (eds.): Ganz Annabelle. A magazine as a friend. Chronos Verlag / Edition Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-905311-00-3 , p. 166.
  5. ↑ The Golden Bengal and the three great religions of India. In: Website of Indo Orient Tours (PDF; 256 kB).
  6. ↑ a b Chris Winteler: Globetrotter at 92 years old. In: Tages-Anzeiger . 20th August 2016.
  7. ↑ Ready for a journey. An evening with the travel journalist Charlotte Peter. Winterthur City Library. March 9, 2010.
  8. ↑ Peter Charlotte. In: Bibliomedia Switzerland . 1998.
  9. ↑ a b Isabella Seemann: Portrait. The steppe wolf. In: Surprise . No. 242/2011, p. 9.
  10. ↑ Urs von Tobel: “Curious like a young dog”. In: Observer . September 8, 2006.
  11. ↑ Charlotte Peter: When traveling was invented. Biographical non-fiction book. ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Münster, Basel 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.muensterverlag.ch
  12. ↑ Allocation of seats and party numbers. In: The deed. March 14, 1970, p. 6.
  13. ↑ Women in conversation with candidates for the National Council. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . October 4, 1975, morning edition, p. 45.
  14. ^ The number of votes of the LdU candidates. In: The deed. October 30, 1975, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Peter, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peter, Charlotte Elisabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian, journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich