Lina Schips-Lienert

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Lina Schips-Lienert (born March 28, 1892 in Einsiedeln , † August 12, 1944 in Geneva ) was a Swiss writer.

life and work

Lina Lienert was born on March 28, 1892 as the daughter of Konrad Lienert in Einsiedeln. The writer Meinrad Lienert was her uncle; Her brother Otto Helmut Lienert was also active as a writer. In 1918 she married Martin Schips.

Best known was her novel Welt um Gertrud from 1938, which was reprinted several times and also translated into Swedish and French. The central element of his plot are the difficulties of interdenominational marriage ("mixed marriage ") between a Protestant woman from Zurich and a Catholic from Uri . While it was said in the Schweizerische teacher's newspaper that the author had written a book that had “had to be written for a long time” with “really masterful superiority, strong empathy, thorough knowledge of the Catholic cult and deep understanding of religious questions”, she became more Catholic Page criticized for the fact that the Catholic religion in the novel is portrayed as “full of severe narrowness, injustice and fanaticism”.

On the occasion of the Swiss National Exhibition in 1939 , Lina Schips-Lienert edited the festival We Swiss Women with contributions "from over 150 Swiss women and daughters from all walks of life and from all parts of the country".

In 1940 she founded "with some women friends" in Zurich the Free Literary Working Group , a literary society that was supposed to enable women writers to "read more from their works, give and find suggestions". She died in Geneva on August 12, 1944 .

Works (selection)

  • Erika Berdorf . Novel. Glocken-Verlag, Zurich 1929
  • Lilith . Narrative. Rascher, Zurich 1930
  • World around Gertrud . Swiss printing and publishing house, Zurich 1938
  • Home is calling . Novel. Swiss printing and publishing house, Zurich 1940
  • The lights . Novel. Waldstatt, Einsiedeln 1942
  • In the wonderland of the ants. Swiss printing and publishing house, Zurich 1942
  • Silvia and her friends . Novel. Waldstatt, Einsiedeln 1943
  • The sky car . Novel. Swiss printing and publishing house, Zurich 1945

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Dorette Berthoud: Les femmes et les livres. A la mémoire de Lina Schips-Lienert . In: Le mouvement féministe. Organe officiel des publications de l'Alliance nationale des sociétés féminines suisses . tape 32 , no. 673 , November 18, 1944, pp. 82–84 (French, e-periodica.ch ).
  2. ↑ a b Wernerkarl Kälin: Meinrad Lienert. On his 100th birthday on May 21, 1965 . In: Swiss School . tape 52 , no. 9 , 1965, pp. 241–244 , here p. 243 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-530937 .
  3. ↑ a b short messages . In: The deed . 9th year, no. 214 , August 14, 1944, p. 8 ( e-newspaperarchives.ch ).
  4. ^ W. Schnyder: Book Show . In: Swiss teacher newspaper . tape 83 , issue 46, 1938, pp. 813 ( e-periodica.ch ).
  5. ↑ A strange book on the Catholic-Protestant mixed marriages question . In: Apologetic sheets . 2nd year, no. 24 , December 22, 1938, pp. 5, 21 , here p. 5 ( orientierung.ch [PDF]).
  6. ↑ We Swiss women . Retrieved on June 7, 2019 (entry in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library).
  7. ↑ Zurich mirror . In: The deed . 25th year, no. 157 , June 9, 1960, pp. 6 ( e-newspaperarchives.ch ).
personal data
SURNAME Schips-Lienert, Lina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lienert, Lina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Einsiedeln
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1944
Place of death Geneva