Josy Doyon-Hofstetter

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Josy Doyon-Hofstetter (born May 12, 1932 in Innsbruck ; † August 24, 2011 in Adelboden ) was an Austrian-Swiss mountain farmer and writer.

Life

Doyon grew up with her grandparents in Tyrol . At the age of seven, she came back to her parents in Innsbruck, alienated. Her parents died in World War II and she was placed in a foster family. There she converted to the evangelical faith. Because the Catholic relatives wanted to bring her back, she was brought to Aeschi near Spiez in Switzerland in 1950 , where she found work in the Tabor children's home. Alice Keller-Hofstetter, a language teacher from Spiez , took her in as an adopted daughter. In 1957 she married Georges Doyon, with whom she later moved to Ladholz between Frutigen and Adelboden and had four children. Adelboden, Frutigland and its inhabitants became their home. There she began to write autobiographicals about the meager life of the mountain farmers and the hard fate of the slate mine workers. Shepherds Without Mercy was the title of her first autobiographical novel, in which she wrote about her time with Jehovah's Witnesses . She was also a member of the Berne Writers' Association (BSV).

Works

  • Shepherds without mercy. Theological Publishing House , Zurich 1966
  • Becoming a mountain farmer, what an adventure. Blaukreuz , Bern 1980, ISBN 3-85580-126-6 .
  • Zryd Rösli and her village. Blaukreuz, Bern 1980, ISBN 3-85580-110-X .
  • Flowers for a Sunday child. Story from Adelboden. Blaukreuz, Bern 1982, ISBN 3-85580-140-1 .
  • In the shadow of the wage earner - gray gold - anniversary edition. From the life of a hundred-year-old woman from Adelboden. Story from the Engstligental. Blaukreuz, Bern 2009, ISBN 978-3-85580-470-2 . (Originally two separate books, 1st editions 1983 and 1976)
  • Kingdom at the foot of the sneeze. From the eventful history of Bad Heustrich. Blaukreuz, Bern 1984, ISBN 3-85580-169-X .
  • Red clouds in the sky. My childhood and youth. Blaukreuz, Bern 1985, ISBN 3-85580-184-3 .
  • The last cheese carrier from the Talberg. Story from the Simmental. Blaukreuz, Bern 1987, ISBN 3-85580-197-5 .
  • Scary trappers. A mother fights for her son. Blaukreuz, Bern 1993, ISBN 3-85580-323-4 .
  • From the Danube to the Bernese Oberland. A woman's fate. Blaukreuz, Bern 2000, ISBN 3-85580-401-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ literapedia-bern.ch
  2. ↑ manfred-gebhard.de
  3. ↑ lwa.ch
personal data
SURNAME Doyon-Hofstetter, Josy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mountain farmer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 2011
Place of death Adelboden