Paulette Brupbacher

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Paulette Brupbacher , also: Paula Gutzeit; Paula Brupbacher-Rajgrodski (born January 16, 1880 in Pinsk , Minsk Gouvernement , † December 31, 1967 in Unterendingen (Switzerland)) was a Swiss doctor and sex reformer .

Life

Paula Raygrodski was the daughter of the private scholar Aron Hirsch Raygrodski and Frieda Nimcowicz. Since it was not possible for women to study in Russia , she went to Switzerland with her husband Abraham Goutzait in 1902. With Goutzait she had two children, Gregoire and Bluma Renée. From 1903 she studied at the Philosophical Faculty in Bern and received her doctorate in 1907 with a thesis on land reform . She then studied medicine in Berlin and, after the outbreak of war, in Geneva , where she also worked at a clinic for drug addicts. After her divorce from Gutzeit, she married the doctor and anarchist Fritz Brupbacher in 1924 and ran the medical practice with him at Kasernenstrasse 17 in Aussersihl , the working-class and immigrant district of Zurich . The practice was also the point of contact for political refugees.

Brupbacher, like Betty Farbstein , combined her profession as a doctor with political commitment: working for free access to contraceptives , for abortion , for sex education , for the liberalization of marriage law and for state support for raising children.

Because of her energetic behavior, she was banned from speaking in the cantons of Solothurn and Glarus in 1935.

Brupbacher was a member of the Central Committee of International Workers Aid . She worked for the magazine Der Weg der Frau and translated the confession of the anarchist Michail Alexandrowitsch Bakunin into French in 1932 .

After her husband's death, she continued the medical practice until 1952 and then went to Israel to work as a construction worker in a kibbutz near Tel Aviv .

The Brupbacherplatz in Zurich was named after the doctors pair of 2009.

She found her final resting place in the Hönggerberg cemetery .

Fonts (selection)

  • Paula Gutzeit: The land reform. A dogma-historical-critical study , Leipzig: Duncker and Humblot, 1907. Inaug.-diss. Bern 1907
  • De la dissociation albumino-cytologique du liquide céphalo-rachidien dans le tabes et la paralysie générale , Genève: Grivet, 1933. Dissertation: Univ. Geneva, 1933. Dissertation at WorldCat
  • The Abortion in Russia , Bern 1931. Separate print from Praxis, Swiss Review for Medicine , No. 48, dated December 1, 1931
  • Rationalization and Hygiene , Berlin: Central Committee d. International Workers Aid (Women's Department), 1932
  • Sexual issues and birth control , Zurich: Jean-Christophe-Verl., 1936
  • Paulette Brupbacher (ed.): In memory of Fritz Brupbacher: 1874 - 1945 , Zurich, 1945
  • My patients , Zurich: Gutenberg Book Guild, 1953
  • Hygiene for everyone , Zurich: Gutenberg Book Guild, 1955
  • Paulette Brupbacher , Aussersihl: Chancellery Library, 1988 (excerpts from own texts)

Journal articles (selection)

literature

  • Volkmar Sigusch , Günter Grau (ed.): Personal Lexicon of Sexual Research , Campus, Frankfurt a. M. 2009 pp. 91-94 ISBN 978-3-593-39049-9
  • Susanne Alge, The Brupbacherin: Approaching a Life , Innsbruck: Haymon 1995 ISBN 3-85218-186-0
  • Lina Gafner: "With pistol and pessary": Sexuality in the eyes of the Brupbacher circle - between revolutionary social criticism and hygienic reform project in Zurich in the 1920s and 1930s , Nordhausen: Traugott Bautz, 2010. ISBN 9783883096162 . Licentiate thesis, Historical Institute, University of Bern, 2009.

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personal data
SURNAME Brupbacher, Paulette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brupbacher, Paula; Brupbacher-Rajgrodski, Paula; Good time, Paula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctor and sex reformer
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Pinsk
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1967
Place of death Unterendingen