Gaston Bridel

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Gaston Bridel (born December 1, 1895 in Montreux , † May 23, 1982 in Prilly , Canton of Vaud ) was a Swiss journalist . From 1938 to 1960 he was editor-in-chief of the Geneva newspaper Tribune de Genève .

Life

Bridel was the son of the Protestant pastor Eugène Bridel († 1929) and Alice Bridel geb. Boiceau († 1946). He had six siblings, including National Councilor Georges Bridel. Bridel studied theology and philosophy at the University of Lausanne . He was married to Simone Bridel geb. Dubrit, who died a year and a half before him in 1980, and had three children with her. His daughter Danielle († 2004) was a lawyer at the Federal Social Insurance Office, from 1976 head of the health insurance department, his son Claude († 2007) rector of the University of Lausanne.

From 1944 to 1946 Bridel was President of the Swiss Press Association (VSP, today imprint ). Bridel was a theater lover, he himself wrote the theater review in his newspaper, was president from 1930 to 1938, then honorary president of the Théâtre du Jorat in Mézières and also played himself, including the Vaudois freedom hero Major Davel in the eponymous drama by René Morax . He was a board member and from 1974 an honorary member of the Alliance culturelle romande, founded in 1961, and a member of the Swiss Commission for UNESCO .

Professional career

After graduating, Bridel joined the Gazette de Lausanne as an editor in 1919 and was appointed Secretary General in 1927. At the beginning of 1938 he moved to the Tribune de Genève as director-chief editor , which developed into a popular quality paper under his direction. He retired at the end of 1960.

Works

Le Théâtre en Suisse romande , Lucerne: Theaterkultur-Verlag 1937 (yearbook of the Swiss Society for Theater Culture; 9, 1937)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mort de M me Alice Bridel. ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 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. In: Journal de Genève . October 18, 1946, p. 2.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.letempsarchives.ch
  2. ↑ Family tree on the website of the Société Genevoise de Généalogie .
  3. ^ Sabine Carruzzo-Frey: Bridel, Georges. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  4. ↑ Lucienne Hubler: Bridel, Danielle. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  5. ↑ Olivier Fatio: Bridel, Claude. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  6. ^ Les derniers honneurs à Gaston Bridel.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Gazette de Lausanne . May 26, 1982, p. 3 (with the father's wrong first name).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.letempsarchives.ch  
  7. ^ Ernst Bollinger: Alliance culturelle romande. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  8. ↑ Website of the Swiss Commission for UNESCO ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2015 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. .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unesco.ch
  9. ↑ Bridel, Gaston. In: Schweizer Lexikon, Rotten Verlag, Visp 1991-1993, p. 278.
personal data
SURNAME Bridel, Gaston
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreux
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1982
Place of death Prilly , Canton of Vaud