Laura Zimmermann

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Laura Zimmermann (2018)

Laura Zimmermann (born November 6, 1991 ) is a Swiss political activist and co-president of Operation Libero .

biography

Laura Zimmermann grew up as the daughter of a kindergarten teacher and a notary and FDP municipal council ( executive ) in Konolfingen in the canton of Bern . She trained in mountain running and half marathons and was a ski instructor. Zimmermann completed her law studies in Paris and Bern with a master’s degree. As a research assistant at the chair for public law, European and international law of Professor Helen Keller , a judge at the European Court of Human Rights , Zimmermann worked on a dissertation on international law . In 2018 she left the university and started as a project manager for campaigns at the communications agency Rod .

politics

Laura Zimmermann was politicized as an opponent of the SVP's minaret initiative , which enforced a ban on the construction of minarets in Switzerland in 2009. Zimmermann sees himself as progressive, europhile and liberal in the tradition of John Stuart Mill . In 2016, she became co-president of Operation Libero , a student movement that was founded in 2014 as a reaction to the defeat against the “Initiative against mass immigration” of the right-wing populist SVP . In a debate with SVP strategy chief Christoph Blocher, she provoked with the demand that the SVP should finally start its announced initiative against the free movement of persons so that Switzerland could clarify its relationship with Europe.

Zimmermann led the Operation Libero campaign against the No Billag initiative , which wanted to abolish radio and television fees and which failed with over 70% no votes and in all cantons. Zimmermann relied on online warriors , on volunteers who argued for a no on social media . Afterwards she campaigned against the self-determination initiative , whereby her argument focused on the fact that if she said yes, Switzerland would become a contract breaker. With 66% no votes, the SVP initiative clearly failed.

Zimmermann's appearances in TV formats, for example in the arena voting debate , led to newspaper titles such as “The Face of Resistance”. L'illustré attested her “extraordinary persuasiveness and unparalleled political talent” , while the Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote that Zimmermann was one of the “most prominent opponents of the Swiss right”. Shortly before the elections in Switzerland in autumn 2019, an argument with Sascha Lobo was published in DIE ZEIT .

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  1. ↑ D. Waldmeier: The woman who brings nightmares to SVP , portrait in 20 minutes from November 25, 2018, accessed on November 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ Vanessa Mistric: She loves fighting. The 26-year-old Laura Zimmermann heads the Operation Libero campaign against the self-determination initiative. , Berner Zeitung of November 17, 2018, accessed on November 22, 2018.
  3. ↑ Claudia Blumer: «‹ No Billag ›sounds like relief» , interview in Tages-Anzeiger from January 12, 2017, accessed on November 23, 2018.
  4. ↑ ECHR judge Helen Keller and the co-president of Operation Libero, Laura Zimmerman, are fighting together against the SBI. Not entirely by chance , Nau.ch from November 8, 2018, accessed on November 23, 2018
  5. ^ A b Moritz Marthaler: The face of resistance portrait in Der Bund from November 16, 2018.
  6. ↑ Anna Sterchi: The courtroom was not my profession , interview in: in person from October 14, 2018, accessed on November 23, 2018.
  7. ^ Leonie Marti: Sunday guest - Laura Zimmermann: "The minaret initiative made me politicized" , radio interview on SRF on February 19, 2017, accessed on November 24, 2018
  8. ↑ Michel Guillaume: Laura Zimmermann, la nouvelle égérie d'Opération Libero , portrait in Le Temps of April 8, 2018, accessed on November 24, 2018
  9. ^ Operation Freedom Swiss Month of July 1, 2017, accessed on November 24, 2018.
  10. ↑ Active service. How a bold group of young people fought the enforcement initiative. Hannes Grassegger in: Das Magazin from March 5, 2016.
  11. ↑ Finally bring your cancellation initiative! , View from February 9, 2017, retrieved on November 24, 2018.
  12. ↑ Widnau: Discussion with Blocher , St. Galler Tagblatt from June 15, 2017, accessed on November 24, 2018.
  13. ↑ Operation Libero celebrates triumph over No Billag , on the online portal nau.ch on March 4, 2018 , accessed on November 24, 2018.
  14. ↑ Online warriors: No-Billag opponents intervene in comment columns, online in 20 minutes from January 4, 2018 , accessed on October 24, 2018
  15. ↑ Peter Blunschi: These women have something to say - and the SVP will not like this , in: watson , October 18, 2018, accessed on November 24, 2018.
  16. ↑ Media conference against the SBI: Speech by Laura Zimmermann , YouTube video on the Operation Libero channel, October 5, 2018 , accessed on November 24, 2018.
  17. ↑ Raphaela Birrer: Defeat for self-determination initiators . In: Tages-Anzeiger . November 25, 2018, ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed December 8, 2018]).
  18. ↑ Audience arena : Self-determination initiative , broadcast on SRF on October 19, 2018, accessed on November 24, 2018.
  19. ^ SRF-Arena zu No Billag , excerpt, YouTube channel of Operation Libero, February 1, 2018 , accessed on November 24, 2018.
  20. ↑ Blaise Calame: Laura Zimmermann. Citoyenne modèle , in: L'illusté of April 18, 2018.
  21. ↑ Hard in the matter, gentle in tone , Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 22, 2018.
  22. ↑ Can right-wing populists be disenchanted? in: DIE ZEIT, No. 43,2019, p. 12
personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Laura
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss political activist
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern