Elisabeth Thommen
Elisabeth Thommen (born April 10, 1888 in Waldenburg BL , † June 24, 1960 in Zurich ) was a Swiss journalist , writer and feminist .
Life
Elisabeth Thommen was the daughter of the entrepreneur Hermann Thommen and Anna Tanner. In 1909 she trained as a kindergarten teacher. This was followed by self-taught training as a journalist and writer. She edited the Swiss kindergarten for 25 years .
Thommen published articles in the “ Swiss Women's Calendar ”, edited by Clara Büttiker . From 1914 Thommen was the editor of the Landschäftler and from 1919 to 1921 the editor of the Schweizer Frauenblatt . She specialized in the legal and political equality of women and men. In 1928 she was editor of the SAFFA newspaper, then editor of volumes of the yearbook of Swiss women . From 1919 she edited the women's supplement for the Basler National-Zeitung for almost 20 years . At the same time, Thommen also published poems and stories.
From 1933 to 1953 Thommen was a permanent employee at Radio Beromünster , where she especially designed programs for women and children ( The Hour for Women ) and wrote radio plays and audio sequences. Thommen wrote a. a. also dialect poetry .
In the 1940s she founded the relief campaign for poor women and families From Woman to Woman , which made her one of the most famous Swiss women . She was also an honorary member of the board of directors of the Zurich voting rights association, and in 1934 she helped set up the working group for women and democracy .
Thommen was first married to Albert Wirth from Liestal in 1912 and his second marriage to Jakob Bührer in 1921 . The Gosteli Foundation in Worblaufen houses a biographical collection about her.
Fonts
- Elisabeth Thommen: A short cross-section through the development of the Swiss women's movement. In: Die Frau in der Schweiz , 1931, pp. 28–32.
- Elisabeth Thommen: On the activities of Swiss women in 1931/32. In: Die Frau in der Schweiz , 1932, pp. 9-14.
- Elisabeth Thommen: From the current status of the German women's movement. In: Die Frau in der Schweiz , 1932, pp. 62–67.
- Elisabeth Thommen: A survey among Swiss women writers. In: Die Frau in der Schweiz , 1934, pp. 7–13.
literature
- Regula Ludi : Thommen, Elisabeth. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Anita Richner, Nicole Schaad: The taming of a stubborn man. In: Sébastien Guex et al .: Crisis and Stabilization: Switzerland in the Interwar Period. 1998, pp. 211-223.
- Thomas Schweizer: The watchmaker's daughter. 2007.
- A. Thommen: Elisabeth Thommen. 1960.
- Betty Wehrli-Knobel: One of the most maternal women. Elisabeth Thommen, journalist, radio employee and writer. In: Baselbieter Heimatbuch, 9, 1962, pp. 114–120.
- Sabine Kubli: Elisabeth Thommen on her 100th birthday In: Emancipation: feminist magazine for critical women. Vol. 14, 1988, pp. 3-9
Web links
- Elisabeth Thommen estate, AGoF 552 in the finding aids of the Gosteli Foundation, archive on the history of the Swiss women's movement
- Sound documents by and about Elisabeth Thommen in the catalog of the Swiss National Sound Archives
- Short biography in the personal dictionary of the canton of Basel-Landschaft
- Swiss Social Archives , last accessed on July 2, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portrait of Elisabeth Thommen.
- ↑ Verena Bodmer-Gessner: The Zurich women. A brief cultural history of Zurich women. Report house publishing house, Zurich 1961, p. 178.
- ^ Regula Ludi : Thommen, Elisabeth. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thommen, Elisabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss journalist, writer and women's rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waldenburg BL |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 1960 |
| Place of death | Zurich |