Elisabeth Fülscher

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Elisabeth Fülscher (born February 5, 1895 in Winterthur , † 1970 in Zurich ) was a Swiss cookery school director and cookbook author .

Life

Career

Elisabeth Fülscher's parents grew up in simple circumstances in Hamburg. The father worked his way up to engineering and came in 1895 to the development of rock drilling machines for the construction of the Simplon tunnel to the Swiss company Sulzer in Winterthur. Elisabeth Fülscher had four siblings; both sisters became painters - one was also a sculptor - and both brothers studied architecture. She herself probably attended the city's “girls' school”, whose range of subjects was geared towards the future role of schoolgirls as educated housewives and mothers or other women-specific occupations. She decided to train as a home economics teacher. Anna Widmer , owner of the “Private School for Women's Education and Cooking School” in Zurich , soon became her mentor . Fülscher completed her training with Anna Widmer, stayed with her and was her close colleague as an employee. In 1923 Widmer published a collection of recipes. In the expanded 2nd edition from 1928, Elisabeth Fülscher figured alongside Anna Widmer as co- editor of the work named cookbook .

Cookbook and cooking school

After Anna Widmer's death in 1930, Fülscher secured the rights to the cookbook and the cooking school. The new edition of the cookbook from 1935 reflected the cosmopolitanism of the modern housewife of the upper middle and upper classes, to whom Fülscher's work was to be oriented throughout his life. But she did not neglect simple cooking in her cookbook either, and in the 1940 edition showed how a healthy diet could be guaranteed under conditions of need and want. The later editions testify to the economic boom of the 1950s as well as to the author's success.

In 1951, Elisabeth Fülscher moved the cooking school to a large, prestigious building. As a cookbook author and course instructor, she constantly expanded and changed her recipe collection, planned the publication of the new editions, personally took care of sales and expanded her network. Discipline, concentration and perfection were central to her. While Das Fülscher Cookbook was very popular, it was a rather wealthy clientele who booked Fülscher's courses. The program was tight and everything that was expected of a fine kitchen was taught. The choice of ingredients and the program were based on running a household with employees. Instructions on how the service staff should behave when invited were an integral part of the training concept. In 1968 Elisabeth Fülscher sold the cooking school to Agnes Amberg , who ran the courses together with Fülscher in the first year.

Although her company focused primarily on the tasks of housewife and mother, i.e. on the traditional role of women, Elisabeth Fülscher herself did not live according to this pattern. She was a member of the Club of Professional and Business Women Zurich (today Business and Professional Women , BPW) and in the Zurich Club of Soroptimists founded in 1950 . She took a stand for women's suffrage in Switzerland .

literature

  • Elisabeth Joris : Elisabeth Fülscher - successful author and self-confident entrepreneur. In: Elisabeth Fülscher: The Fülscher cookbook. Edited by Susanne Vögeli, Max Rigendinger. 1st, annotated new edition. Hier + Jetzt, Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-03919-300-4 , pp. 6-16.
  • Ursina Largiadèr: The Fülscher cookbook: Cooking by numbers. In: Verein Frauenstadtrundgang Zürich (Ed.): Miss, please pay! Limmat, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-857-91-643-4 , pp. 179-181.
  • Ursina Largiadèr: Agnes Amberg: A woman in the Kocholymp. In: Verein Frauenstadtrundgang Zürich (Ed.): Miss, please pay! Limmat, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-857-91-643-4 , pp. 182-198.
  • The estate of the Fülscher family is in the Winterthur libraries , Winterthur collection

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanne Vögeli, Max Rigendinger: Elisabeth Fülscher. (No longer available online.) Elisabeth Fülscher.ch , 2013, archived from the original on October 19, 2013 ; Retrieved October 18, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / elisabeth-fuelscher.ch
  2. ^ Elisabeth Joris : Elisabeth Fülscher - successful author and self-confident entrepreneur. In: Elisabeth Fülscher: The Fülscher cookbook. Edited by Susanne Vögeli, Max Rigendinger. 1st, annotated new edition. Hier + Jetzt, Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-03919-300-4 , pp. 6-16.
personal data
SURNAME Fülscher, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss head chef and cookbook author
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur
DATE OF DEATH 1970
Place of death Zurich