Lina Bögli

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Lina Bögli (born April 15, 1858 in Oschwand ; † December 22, 1941 in Herzogenbuchsee ) was the first Swiss travel writer .

Life

Lina (first name: Carolina) Bögli was born as the youngest daughter of the small farmer Ulrich Bögli and Elisabeth Graber in Oschwand in the Bernese Oberaargau .

As a young woman, she first worked for many years as a nanny in various wealthy families in Switzerland, France and Italy. She paid for her teacher training herself with the 1200 Swiss francs saved . In 1888, Bögli passed the technical examination and received her teaching diploma. She then worked at a ladies college at Oxford University . At this point in time, Bögli spoke German and French and was now also learning English, which gave her good prerequisites for her later travels.

From 1892 to 1902 at the age of 34, Lina Bögli embarked on her first great journey around the world. She first went to Brindisi in Italy , from where she took the steamer to Sydney , Australia . Her journey later took her via New Zealand , the Samoa Islands , Hawaii to California in the United States and finally to Canada . For all travel routes and the individual, often months-long stays at the individual travel stations, she earned the money on site as a nanny or educator.

Even before she left for Australia, she had armed herself against her own doubts as to whether, as a woman, she would really be able to make the journey around the world by only carrying the bare essentials and using her financial means to cover the travel costs up to the entry into restricted the Australian port and made an immediate return home impossible.

Bögli's first book in the form of letters, Vorwärts (new edition from 1990 under the title Talofa ), with which she processed this world tour, was written between 1902 and 1903. It was a great success. Bögli wrote her second book, Immer vorwärts , a kind of report about her subsequent three-year trip to Asia including Japan , from 1913 to 1914.

At the age of 56, Lina Bögli finally settled in Herzogenbuchsee . She had saved enough, among other things by selling her two books, to be able to finance herself for the rest of her life. She rented a room in the “Kreuz” inn, gave lectures on her travels and gave language lessons.

In December 1940 Bögli went blind in the left eye. She died a year later on December 22, 1941.

reception

Christoph Marthaler designed the theater evening Lina Böglis Reise (1996) from the life of Lina Bögli , which was invited to the Berlin Theater Treffen. Judith Arlt processed Lina Bögli's biography in her novel The world was faster than words (2014).

Works

  • Forward. 1904
  • Always forward. Huber, Frauenfeld 1915.
  • Talofa. Around the world in ten days. Edited and afterword by Doris Stump . eFeF-Verlag, Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-905493-08-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Judith Arlt: "I eat on a set table, made of beautiful china and with the cutlery of King Kalakaua". The world traveler Lina Bögli (1858–1941). Judith Arlt, accessed January 22, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Bögli, Lina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bögli, Carolina (baptismal name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss travel writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Oschwand
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1941
Place of death Herzogenbuchsee