Marga Bührig

Marga Bührig (born October 17, 1915 in Berlin ; † February 13, 2002 in Binningen ; German , legal resident from 1934 in Feldis / Veulden and Zurich ) and was a German - Swiss Germanist , theologian and women's rights activist .

Life

Marga Bührig was the daughter of Wilhelm Bührig, an economist , and Wanda von Weyssenhoff, a writer . After visiting schools in Chur , she completed a study of German language and literature at the University of Zurich . She received her PhD in 1939 . Then she studied theology . At the same time she worked as an assistant teacher in middle schools .

In 1945 she founded the Reformed Student House in Zurich. In 1946 she worked on the 3rd Women's Congress. In 1947 she was a co-founder of the Evangelical Women's Association . Then she stood for the magazine Die Evangelische Schweizerfrau as an editor . In 1958 she worked for the Swiss Exhibition for Women's Work (SAFFA). From 1959 to 1964 she was a member of the board of the Federation of Swiss Women's Organizations . From 1959 she had a job at the Protestant conference center in Boldern. She led this from 1971 to 1981. She took part in various world church conferences. From 1983 to 1991 she was on the presidium of the World Council of Churches.

The important representative of feminist theology published numerous writings on religious and political topics. She was involved in the peace and new women's movement . In 1998 she received an honorary doctorate from the Protestant theological faculty of the University of Basel .

Works

• Marga Bührig. I learned later to love being a woman: a feminist autobiography. Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart 1987.
• Marga Bührig: L'avenir de l'homme: une voix prophétique: autobiography féministe. Labor et Fides, Geneva 1998.

literature

• A sign of the lived gospel: Festschrift for Marga Bührig's 70th birthday - a life in motion and with "movements". Edited by Madeleine Strub-Jaccoud and Hans Strub. With contributions from the jubilee and considerations from companions on a location and path determination of some important "movements" in the mid-1980s as well as a bibliography of the publications by Marga Bührig. Theological Publishing House, Zurich 1985.
• Willi Wottreng and Sandra Niemann: Zurich revolutionaries. Published by the Vontobel Foundation. Vontobel Foundation, Zurich 2002.
• Neue Zürcher Zeitung from February 18, 2002.

Movie

• Sottosopra: the most beautiful revolution of the 20th century. A film by Gabriele Schärer. Maatfilm, Bern 2001.

Web links

• Regula Ludi: Marga Bührig. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 30, 2003 , accessed August 20, 2020 .
• Entry on Marga Bührig in the lexicon istoric retic

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