Cornelia Diethelm

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Cornelia Diethelm (born November 20, 1954 in Schiers ) is a Swiss journalist , book author and musician . She is the founder of the music initiative Music over the Sea .

biography

Cornelia Diethelm grew up in Schiers and went to school in the Protestant Middle School in Schiers . She studied organ at the Zurich Conservatory and graduated as an organist in 2009 at the University of Music and Theater (today Zurich University of the Arts ) . She worked as an organist in various Swiss parishes.

From 1983 she also worked as a freelance journalist for Swiss print media and for Swiss Radio DRS (now Radio SRF ). In addition, she had a permanent position at the Observer , Tele and RadioMagazin (now Kulturtipp ). Among other things, she wrote a feature, the biography of the former television and radio presenter Mäni Webers and a portrait book on the subject of "Turns in Life". For several years she was involved in the climate protection organization myblueplanet . Diethelm has been a member of the SRG.D Public Council since 2008 and a member of the governing committee of this body since 2013.

In 1991/92 and 1993/94 Diethelm lived in the Dominican Republic , where she also founded her music initiative Music over the Sea . In 2011 she was accompanied by Pepe Lienhard as a guest musician in the Dominican Republic. In 2014 four Dominican youths performed together with Lienhard in Frauenfeld . In 2016 the Swiss band Traktorkestar gave several concerts in the Dominican Republic together with youth orchestras from Musik über Meer.

Diethelm was one of the first women to train to become a hot air balloon pilot. She lives in Hedingen .

Radio play and book publications

  • 1991: This is the most beautiful land human eyes have ever seen . Radio play (feature) for Swiss radio DRS 2 (today SRF 2). Director: Walter Baumgartner.
  • 1995: Paa Ekow Akrofi: Taxi driver from Ghana in Switzerland . “Plaza” broadcast for Swiss Radio DRS 2 (now SRF 2).
  • 1997: Music is home . “Plaza” broadcast for Swiss Radio DRS 2 (now SRF 2).
  • 2002: Mäni Weber - ups and downs of a television star, opinio Verlag, Basel (today Reinhardt Verlag, Basel), ISBN 3-03999-016-0 .
  • 2017: ... then the other story began - life turns , Somedia Verlag, Chur / Glarus, ISBN 978-3-906064-75-8 .

Awards

2013: Prize of the International Human Rights Forum Lucerne for the music initiative Music over the Sea

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Founding of the Music Across Sea Association. Retrieved June 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Alois Feusi: From the screed to the Caribbean | NZZ . February 12, 2016, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed June 23, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Gesine Froese: New Tones in the Caribbean . Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November 15, 2015.
  4. ^ SRG: Cornelia Diethelm. Retrieved July 2, 2019 .
  5. ^ SRG German-speaking Switzerland: Public Council. Retrieved July 2, 2019 .
  6. ^ SRF Kulturplatz: “Swiss Lady” in the Caribbean - TV. Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
  7. ↑ SRF Schweiz aktuell: Swiss instruments get a second life in the Caribbean - TV. Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Mike La Marr, Joelle Beeler: Music and love inspire your life. Swiss Radio and Television SRF, June 2, 2013, accessed on November 7, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
  9. ↑ Music over the sea wins human rights award. Retrieved June 22, 2019 .
  10. ^ 9th International Human Rights Forum Lucerne (IHRF). P. 41 , accessed on June 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Diethelm, Cornelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist, author and musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Schiers