Regula Heusser-Markun

Regula Heusser-Markun (* 1943 in Schaffhausen ) is a Swiss journalist , writer and now a freelance journalist .

Life

In 1962 she passed her Matura type A (old-language grammar school with Greek and Latin ) in Zurich . Their son was born four years later. From 1971 to 1976 she studied Slavic Studies , Eastern European History and Ethnology at the University of Zurich . As a working student , she gave lessons at various schools.

After graduating, Heusser-Markun worked as a freelance journalist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the Tages-Anzeiger and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , among others , before joining the editorial staff of the latter in 1980. Until she left the company in 2006, she made a name for herself with striking articles from the wide-ranging socio-political area. Among other things, she was responsible for the weekend supplement "Zeitfragen". The spectrum of topics ranged from changing values , social forms of behavior, migration and social psychology, medical issues to minority and women's issues, social problems such as suicide, euthanasia and drug addiction, as well as the social situation of children and adolescents. A special focus of her work was the observation of the conditions in the Soviet Union before and after the collapse . Numerous reports and analyzes have appeared in this area.

In 1996, in collaboration with the Federal Commission against Racism , she organized the conference “Language and Racism”, which was specifically aimed at media professionals.

Awards

• 1992: Zurich Journalist Prize - Swissair Prize
• 1994: Media Prize of the Society for Minorities in Switzerland

« Her diverse articles about ethnic and religious minorities or fringe groups in our society testify to the extremely fine sensitivity with which she knows how to translate the well-founded research into linguistic skills. »

• 1995: Zurich Journalism Prize

Fonts

• Unknown neighbor Soviet Union . AT Verlag , Aarau / Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-85502-194-5 . (Licensed edition as The Unknown Neighbor. Everyday Life in the Soviet Union . Goldmann Verlag , Munich 1989, ISBN 3-442-11429-2 )
• Women in the Soviet Union. In: Women of the World. Verlag NZZ, Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-85823-048-0 .
• Foreword to Daniel Gendre : USSR. Offizin-Verlag, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-907496-55-8 . (German Russian)
• They are back, the Russians. In: Bellevue Zurich. Verlag NZZ, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-03823-173-8 .
• 68 female - from euphoria to disillusionment. In: 1968 Zurich is upside down. Scheidegger & Spiess Verlag, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-85881-220-9 .
• Glance into a Switzerland of many cultures. In: Thinking about Switzerland. Verlag NZZ, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-85823-317-X .
• School of social renewal. In: Switzerland and Zurich - Zurich and Switzerland. Verlag NZZ, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-85823-895-3 , p. 35ff.
• Overrated? The contribution of the intelligentsia to the dissolution of the USSR. In: Martin Malek, Anna Schor-Tschudnowskaja (Hrsg.): The disintegration of the Soviet Union, causes - side effects - background. Nomos publishing house, Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8329-6320-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Presentation of Regula Heusser-Markuns (PDF; 2.0 MB) on opfikon.ch (editorial overview of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung from January 2005). Found December 13, 2011.
2. ↑ Presentation of the winners of the Fischhof Prize 1994 ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2011 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. on gra.ch (Foundation against Racism and Anti-Semitism). Found December 13, 2011.