Judith Giovannelli-Blocher
Judith Giovannelli-Blocher (born June 17, 1932 in Bonstetten , Canton of Zurich ) is a Swiss social worker and author.
Giovannelli-Blocher is the second oldest of eleven children. The father was a pastor in Laufen am Rheinfall . One of her younger brothers is the entrepreneur and former Federal Councilor Christoph Blocher , another is the pastor Gerhard Blocher (1934–2016), and a sister is the late pastor Sophie Blocher .
After her training and years of practical experience, she was head of department at the school for social work in Bern . At the political level, too, she campaigned for the disadvantaged, fought for women's rights and took part in a popular initiative in 2006 for a new policy on foreigners, against the tightening of the asylum law propagated by her brother Christoph.
In 1999 Giovannelli-Blocher published her first novel. Non-fiction books and essays on the subject of age followed . In her autobiography The Red Thread , she critically examines her childhood among ten siblings in the rectory, the relationship with the Marxist art historian Konrad Farner and her search for an intellectual self-identification as a writer.
In 1980 she married Sergio Giovannelli-Blocher and lives in Biel .
Works
- Getting older at work. Swiss Association for Careers Advice. Dübendorf 1993, ISBN 3-908003-30-X .
- Hanni Schilt: There is still time to take risks. Hanni Schilt tells her life, recorded by Judith Giovanelli-Blocher using tape recordings. Sae'dition, Biel 1994, ISBN 3-907922-00-X .
- The frozen sea . Novel. Pendo, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-85842-341-6 .
- The distant paradise. A sibling novel. Pendo, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85842-482-X .
- The happiness of the later years. My plea for old age. Pendo, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-85842-578-8 .
- What we grow from. Experiences of a lifetime. Pendo, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-85842-650-5 .
- The simple things. What matters in life. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-312-00459-1 .
- The Red Thread. The story of my life. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-312-00499-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Judith Giovannelli-Blocher in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry about Judith Giovannelli-Blocher in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
- Res Strehle : The narrow path in the Blocher family. Book review of The Red Thread. The story of my life. In: Tages-Anzeiger of March 24, 2012
- Rudolf Burger: “It's not funny to be part of the Blocher family”. Interview in: Der Bund from April 28, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Esther Banz: "Always somehow wrong." Interview in: Die Wochenzeitung 30/2008 from July 24, 2008
- ↑ Gerhard Blocher is dead. St. Galler Tagblatt , December 28, 2016.
- ↑ Hannes Nussbaumer, Gaby Szöllösy: "I am glad that the SVP is stagnating". In: Tages-Anzeiger (interview). May 15, 2006, archived from the original on September 20, 2011 ; Retrieved November 15, 2012 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Giovannelli-Blocher, Judith |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonstetten ZH , Switzerland |