Women's walking tours in Switzerland

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The women's city tours in Switzerland emerged from a joint movement in the 1990s and operate as independent associations in various Swiss cities. An interdisciplinary team of humanities scholars researches archives, researches local women's and gender history and designs city tours, lectures and publications with the aim of making the results known to a broad audience.

Emergence

For a long time women played a minor role in traditional historiography. As a result of the New Women's Movement , women historians began to question the so-called man-centered view of history and to deal with the previously little researched history of women. At the same time, they advocated the consideration of women's and gender history in the university curricula and demanded that it be systematically processed in the archives. In the course of these efforts, the first women's city tours were established in Germany from the late 1970s, which were carried out as part of women's summer universities and meetings of women historians. Historians of the women's group in Cologne presented the Cologne Women's History Association at the 5th conference of women historians in Bern in 1988 . Your lecture sparked off similar projects in Switzerland: in the same year, the historical association StattLand Bern launched two city tours with a focus on women's and gender history. In the summer of 1990, women historians from Basel offered the first women’s city tour in Switzerland. In 1991 the women's city tour of Zurich was founded. This was followed by tours of the women's city in Lucerne , Freiburg , Zug , Winterthur , Aarau and Baden .

Objectives

As required by the history workshops and the grave-where-you-stand movement of the 1970s and 1980s, local women's history is researched, taken from the academic environment and made accessible to a wide audience. An important concern is the creation of places of memory for women in the cityscape: squares, streets and monuments hardly recalled everyday life or projects of women, but were mainly dedicated to male personalities from local history. Women's city tours create places of memory for women by remembering specific life contexts of women and connecting them to buildings, squares and sculptures via city tours.

Characteristics and development of the women's city tours

In their respective tours, the clubs focus on depicting the world of life and experience of women in the respective region from the Middle Ages to the present. The city tours are often led by at least two city walkers and are often supplemented with costumes, props, and images and sound. Acting contributions are characteristic, although these are differently pronounced in the clubs. With the theater performances, the clubs differentiate themselves from classically speaking city tours. In all clubs, there is a tendency to gradually move away from pure women's history and towards gender history.

FemmesTour

With a view to the 150th anniversary of the Swiss federal state in 1998, the women's city tours in nine different cities (Aarau, Basel, Bern , Freiburg, Geneva , Lucerne, Winterthur, Zug and Zurich) joined together in the FemmesTour project . It was the only major women’s project that was financed by the federal government as part of the anniversary celebration. Under the title What women do when men found states , the historians of the individual associations developed a tour for their city. A total of over 7,000 visitors took part in the FemmesTour in the summer of 1998 . They brought together their extensive research results in the publication With Money, Spirit and Patience: Women and their History between Helvetica and the Federal State . Femmes Tour Association, founded in 1996 as the umbrella organization of the women's city tour associations and dissolved in 1999 after the end of the project.

Women's city tour Basel

Around 20 active people conduct tours on various topics, with a new tour being prepared every year for the coming season. In 2016, the association decided to accept men as active members, as the social issues of the tours affect everyone and different perspectives are necessary in discussions about gender.

For the 500th birthday of Wibrandis Rosenblatt , the Frauenstadtrundgang Basel association donated a commemorative plaque in 2004, which was attached to the rectory of St. Martin's Church .

Together with founding member Brigitta Gerber , the association was able to achieve in 2019 that those people who were convicted of witchcraft in Basel in the early modern period were symbolically rehabilitated with a memorial plaque.

Awards

Women's city tour Zurich

More than 20 historians research the women's and gender history of the city of Zurich and convey their results to a broad audience through tours, lectures and publications. In the summer of 1999, the participating Frauenstadtrundgang Zurich on the action Transit in 1999 , were moved as part of which the most famous monuments of historical male figures of the city. The Zurich Women's City Tour took part with the exhibition Announcement from the control center and showed on 10 panels - placed at various tram stops - how women were out and about in the city of Zurich in the 19th century.

Awards
  • 1995: Honorary gift from the literary credit of the Canton of Zurich for the publication Chratz & Quer. Seven women's city tours in Zurich
  • 2005: FemPrix of the Feminist Science Association to the women's city ​​tours in Basel, Zug and Zurich
  • 2009: Equal Opportunities Prize of the City of Zurich

Women's city tour Lucerne

Originating from the women's strike in 1991 , the association has remained true to its goal of making the blind spots and little-known corners of Lucerne's past - both in a geographical sense and in public awareness - accessible with regard to gender history in its more than 25-year history . This not only in the form of tours, but also articles in the then blog of the online magazine Zentralplus . The Frauenstadtrundgang Luzern association is made up of women from various professional and academic fields. As a result, the association benefits from a variety of perspectives: historians, teachers, cultural workers and students from a wide variety of disciplines take a look at the coexistence of the sexes in the city of Lucerne through the centuries. Everyday life and cultural history are of particular interest. The thematic spectrum is wide: Stories of women adventurers and women entrepreneurs receive attention as well as politically committed patricians and citizens. The researchers are just as enthusiastic about bathing cultures as the perception of smells, and ultimately they always take a look at women on the fringes of society.

Awards

Women in Freiburg - city tours

Originally emerging from a working group, the Frauen in Freiburg - City Tours was institutionalized as an association in 1992 by women historians. In addition to the costumed city tours, which are offered in both German and French, the association also staged two large street theaters.

As a result of the association's commitment, St. Katharina-Platz in Freiburg's old town was named. In addition, the association carried out the moral rehabilitation of the woman, Catherine Ràpone, who was executed as the last witch in the canton of Friborg in 1731 .

Women's city tour Winterthur

Since it was founded in 1997, the association has focused on providing scenic city tours. It is characteristic of the association that the tours are led by a trio of women. The association has a total of around 140 members, around 30 of whom are actively involved in developing and implementing the tours. In addition to public and private city tours and scenic lectures, the association, in cooperation with Museum Education Winterthur, also offers didactically prepared school tours for middle school classes. At the turn of the millennium, the association was involved in the introduction of several streets named after women in Winterthur. In 2018, the association decided to open up to new forms of communication and content. Increased cooperation is also to be entered into.

Awards

Publications

Basel association

  • Transversal 1st job. Basel 1991. ISBN 3-909119-00-X
  • Transverser 2. City stories. Basel 1993. ISBN 3-909119-03-4
  • Crossbody 3. Basel bidder on the way. Basel 1994. ISBN 3-909119-04-2
  • Crosswalker 4th change of look. Basel 1996. ISBN 3-9520989-0-6
  • Transversal 5. "Thu the Wiber gathered". Basel 1997. ISBN 3-9520989-1-4
  • Transversal 6. Stories from the gallery. Basel 1999. ISBN 3-905561-26-3
  • Beautiful & witty. Biblical women in the reflection of the city. Six theological women's city tours through Basel. Bern 1999. ISBN 3-905561-27-1
  • Matter of opinion. Nine women’s city tours through Basel. Zurich 2001. ISBN 3-85791-354-1
  • Quiet & strong. Holy women in the educational program of a monastery. A somewhat different pilgrimage to Mary in the rock grotto. Zurich 2003. ISBN 3-85791-416-5
  • Mrs. Policeman and Mr. Kindergarten teacher. Exploring everyday life in Basel. Basel 2006. ISBN 3-033-00749-X
  • Women voices! How the Basel women got their rights. Basel 2006.
  • City safari. Africa in Basel. Basel 2008.

Zurich Association

  • Chratz & Quer. Seven women's city tours in Zurich. Limmat Verlag, Zurich 1995. ISBN 978-3-85791-445-4
  • Fadegrad. 13 memorable stories from women from Zurich. Limmat Verlag, Zurich 2001. ISBN 978-3-85791-374-7
  • "Miss, please pay!" From legendary landladies, well-known restaurants and hard-earned money. Limmat Verlag, Zurich 2011. ISBN 978-3-85791-643-4

Lucerne Association

  • Travel times. A Lucerne trip to women on the move. rex Verlag, Lucerne 1993. ISBN 3-7252-0581-7
  • Up close. On the body history of women. rex Verlag, Lucerne 1996. ISBN 3-7252-0642-2
  • With pepper and whistle: Lucerne women between 1798 and 1848. rex Verlag, Luzern 1998. ISBN 3-7252-0675-9

Freiburg Association

  • Christa Mutter, Christine Schären, Johanna Thali (eds.): From Pater Noster to Alma Mater. (In the footsteps of women in Freiburg I). Meandre Editions - Pro Freiburg, Freiburg 1996. ISBN 2-88359-014-1
  • Christa Mutter, et al. (Ed): Women in the Stream of History. In the footsteps of women in Freiburg 2. Pro Freiburg, Freiburg 2002.
  • Francine Castella, et al. (Ed): Of duchesses, witches and midwives. In the footsteps of women in Freiburg 3. Pro Freiburg, Freiburg 2009.

Winterthur Association

  • Woman looks. Four city tours through Winterthur , Winterthur, Stiftung Edition Winterthur, Winterthur 2006. ISBN 978-3-033-00835-9
  • Locations. The association Frauenstadtrundgang Winterthur stages history (s) , Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2015. ISBN 978-3-908050-38-4

Web links

Individual evidence

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