Peter Zimmermann (civil rights activist)

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Peter Zimmermann (* 1940 ) is a Swiss cultural worker .

Life

Zimmermann spent 30 years in various penal institutions in Switzerland. During his time in prison, he was President of the Swiss Prisoners' Union and launched a petition on the house rules of the Regensdorf prison , which resulted in the self-help organization for prisoners and those released, Team 72 . After his release he founded the self-help group for prisoners Reform 91 around 1990 , with which he worked among other things on reasons for youth violence and campaigned politically for the interests of prisoners.

In 1991 he published the cardboard picture book pins in a haystack / Reform 91 prison system . At the same time the book "Prisoners Write for Their Children" was published.

Peter Zimmermann also founded the Korn theater group . In 2003 he staged the interactive play The Scream for Love , which describes “his own biography as a former prison inmate”: “The focus is on reconciliation with one's own family. His granddaughter had inspired him to write the piece. "

With his theater group, he staged the play Violence in Prison in 2011 - does that have to be? , which is about a real murder case from 2008. With the staging of the "perverse" "Murder of Pöschwies", he wanted to "denounce the judicial apparatus".

literature

  • Matthias Brunner: On the other side of the prison gate. Interview with Peter Zimmermann. In: Basler Zeitung , April 22, 2003, p. 35.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Article in the St. Galler Tagblatt
  2. ↑ Zimmermann on TeleTop
  3. ↑ Article in the Tages-Anzeiger
  4. ↑ See e.g. B. Petition ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ag.ch
  5. ↑ OCLC 716190238
  6. ^ Matthias Brunner. On the other side of the prison gate. Interview with Peter Zimmermann. In: Basler Zeitung , April 22, 2003, p. 35.
  7. ↑ Article in Der Landbote
personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss cultural worker
DATE OF BIRTH 1940