Swiss Esperanto Society
The Swiss Esperanto Society founded in 1903 ( in Esperanto : Svisa Esperanto-Societo (SES) ; French : Société suisse d'espéranto ; Italian : Società esperantista svizzera ; Rhaeto-Romanic : Societad svizra d'esperanto ) is the umbrella organization of the Esperanto movement in the Switzerland and one of the oldest Esperanto associations in the world. It was founded in western Switzerland in 1905. In the course of history its members have included the Geneva philosopher Ernest Naville , the scientist Auguste Forel , the journalist, diplomat and secretary Gandhis Edmond Privat , the founder of the World Esperanto Federation ( Universala Esperanto-Asocio ) Hector Hodler and the co-founder of WIR -Bank Paul Enz. It currently has 170 members.
Today the society has its seat in the municipal library of La Chaux-de-Fonds in the CDELI, which also contains the library of the society.
Local groups and clubs
There are active local Esperanto associations today in Basel , Bern , Wil SG , Geneva , Lausanne and Zurich . In addition to the local groups, the society has a youth group (Young Esperanto Switzerland, JES) and international Esperanto associations in Switzerland also have national offshoots, including the Esperanto Railway Union, the Association of Blind Esperantists, the Christian Esperanto League, the Catholic Esperanto League and more.
International Relations
The association maintains contacts with the national Esperanto societies in the neighboring countries in France , Italy , Austria and Germany . It is (1934–38 and then again since 1947) the Swiss national association of the Universala Esperanto-Asocio , which had its seat in Geneva from 1908 to 1936 (briefly in Bern in 1919/20).
The Esperanto World Congress took place six times in Switzerland : 1906 in Geneva, 1913 in Bern, 1925 again in Geneva, 1939 and 1947 again in Bern and finally in 1979 for the last time in Lucerne . The 1939 Congress was the last Congress before World War II. In 1947 the movement celebrated its resurrection with the first Esperanto World Congress after the war.
Official organ, magazines
From 1903 to 1973 the official organ of the Swiss Esperanto Society was the magazine Svisa Espero , which appeared for a certain time in the twenties as a supplement to the Esperanto magazine of the World Esperanto Federation. René de Saussure, Karl Jost, Otto Walder, Arthur Baur , Claude Piron and Claude Gacond are among the editors of Svisa Espero . In 1973 Sivsa Espero was replaced by Svisa Esperanto-Revuo , which was discontinued in 1990. From 1991 the society published only a small internal information circular under the name SES informas and until the end of the 1990s subscribed for its members to either of the two Esperanto journals Heroldo de Esperanto or Literatura Foiro, which appear in Switzerland . In 1999 the Swiss Esperanto Society terminated its contract with these magazines. Since then, the SES informas magazine has again included an editorial section.
activities
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The SES organizes an annual spring meeting with the annual general assembly and is the publisher of the information bulletin SES informas , which appears six times a year and is sent to interested parties and members, and regularly writes communications and sends information material to the press. In 2006, the Swiss Esperanto Society and the CDELI published the Swiss planned language lexicon by Andreas Künzli.
April 24, 2008, the Company together with the Universal Esperanto Association and CONGO, the Conference of the UN accredited NGOs , in the Palais des Nations on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the UEA and the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights a Symposium on linguistic rights held .
Since 2015, together with the publishing house Allsprachendienst Esperanto GmbH, the company has published the four-language magazine Svisa Espero - magazine for sustainability and language policy , which has a print run of 5,000 copies every six months with articles in the three Swiss national languages of German, French and Italian and one translation each Esperanto appears.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Web site of the Svisa Espero magazine, accessed on January 13, 2016