Lucretia Seiler
Lukrezia Seiler-Spiess (born August 18, 1934 in St. Gallen ; † December 5, 2013 in Basel ) was a Swiss journalist .
Life
Lukrezia Seiler, b. Spiess, after graduating from high school, worked as a publishing employee at Walter Verlag in Olten and as an editor for the magazine Die Woche . In 1965 she moved to Riehen with her husband and two daughters and started working in the Theo Schudel bookshop. She worked for the yearbook z'Rieche and in 1979 its editor-in-chief . There she published records of numerous conversations with contemporary witnesses. Her book Almost Daily came refugees - Riehen and Bettingen, two border villages 1933 to 1948 , which was reprinted several times, is also based on oral history . For her journalistic and editorial work as well as for her commitment to the establishment of the Riehen Village and Vineyard Museum , she was awarded the Riehen Community Culture Prize in 1988.
Fonts (selection)
- with Jean-Claude Wacker: Refugees came almost every day. Riehen and Bettingen - two border villages 1933 to 1948. Verlag z'Rieche, Riehen 1996; 4th, extended edition (= contributions to Basel history ), Merian, Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-85616-580-2 .
- Ed .: "What will become of us?" Letters of Lörracher siblings Grunkin from the camp Gurs 1940-1942. Chronos, Zurich 2000, ISBN 978-3-905314-16-8 .
- with Doris Kellerhals and Christine Stuber: Signs of Hope. Sister community on the way. 150 years of the Riehen deaconess house. Friedrich Reinhardt, Basel 2002, ISBN 3-7245-1208-2 , p. 202 f. ( Digitized version )
literature
- Gerhard Kaufmann: Culture Prize Winner 1988: Lukrezia Seiler-Spiess. In: Jahrbuch z'Rieche 1989 ( online ).
- Lukrezia Seiler, publicist. In: Basler Zeitung . December 14, 2013 (obituary).
- Daisy Reck: Lukrezia Seiler's gift to Riehen. In: Yearbook z'Rieche. 2014, pp. 100-103 ( online ).
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seiler, Lucretia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seiler-Spiess, Lucretia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Gallen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th December 2013 |
| Place of death | Basel |