Käthi La Roche

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Käthi La Roche b. Kaiser (* 1948 in Zurich ) is a pastor of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zurich . She is the first woman to be elected to the parish at Grossmünster .

life and work

Käthi La Roche studied theology mostly in Zurich. A longer stay in Latin America followed, during which she dealt with the Latin American Church and liberation theology . From 1980 to 1990 La Roche was a student pastor at the University of Zurich and the ETH Zurich ; In 1987 she was visiting professor at the theological faculty of Managua on a sabbatical . A part-time training in Freudian psychoanalysis took place during her time as a pastor at the psychiatric clinic in Oetwil am See. Käthi La Roche was first married to the journalist Emanuel La Roche and her second marriage to the filmmaker Walo Deuber (1947-2017) and is the mother of an adopted daughter from Colombia.

La Roche began her pastor at the Grossmünster in 1999 and retired on Easter 2011. Before that, she regularly spoke on Sunday on Swiss television . 490 years after the Reformation , she was the first woman to work as a pastor in the “mother church” of the Zurich Reformation.

reputation

La Roche is regarded as a courageous church woman and became known far beyond the Zurich city and canton borders during her service. She commented on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the USA: “[…] these would not have hit the heart of 'Western civilization', but rather the centers of financial and military power. But these hearts are made of stone and steel - without any feeling for the needs of the people. " La Roche is also accorded political sensitivity, for example in the spring of 2003 when young people occupied a church tower in the Grossmünster as part of a protest against the Iraq war . On the other hand, she was open to criticism of the Christian faith by admitting after the earthquake in the Indian Ocean in 2004 «[...] that in such situations it is easy to ask oneself whether God is hard of hearing. The overwhelming global sympathy, willingness to help and solidarity show, however, that 'God is already on the plan' ». On the occasion of the peaceful occupation of the Grossmünster in December 2007 by refugees, as part of a protest against the tightened asylum law , she showed a willingness to dialogue and sympathy. At the memorial service of the writer Hugo Loetscher , Käthi La Roche gave the funeral speech on August 28, 2009 in the Grossmünster.

Publications

  • Käthi La Roche: Artwork Grossmünster. A theological leader . Theological Publishing House Zurich, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-290-17483-5 .
  • Gottfried Boehm, Jacqueline Burckhardt, Bice Curiger , Ulrich Gerster, Regine Helbling, Claude Lambert, Käthi La Roche, Urs Rickenbach, Katharina Schmidt, Marina Warner : Sigmar Polke : Windows - Windows Grossmünster Zurich. Parkett Publishers and Grossmünster Zurich, Zurich and New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-907582-27-5 .
  • Käthi La Roche: Not a spirit of despondency. Grossmünster sermons. Zurich 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Käthi La Roche: «It's enough if God believes in you». In: Tagblatt der Stadt Zürich . February 16, 2011.
  2. ↑ Website of the Grossmünster , parish: Käthi La Roche  ( 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. , accessed January 23, 2011@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.grossmuenster.ch  
  3. ↑ a b c d Tages-Anzeiger (January 22, 2011): Grossmünster Pastor Käthi La Roche resigns , accessed on January 23, 2011
  4. ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung (January 22, 2011): Zurich Grossmünster Pastor Käthi la Roche is retiring , accessed on January 23, 2011
  5. ↑ 20 minutes online (December 19, 2007): Grossmünster occupied by refugees , accessed on January 23, 2011
personal data
SURNAME La Roche, Käthi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss pastor
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich