Ursula Brunner (activist)
Ursula Brunner-Storz (born January 7, 1925 in Frauenfeld ; † March 23, 2017 there ) was a Swiss activist for fair trade . She was the founder of the “ banana women ” movement, pastor's wife and Thurgau's Grand Councilor ( FDP ).
Life
Ursula Brunner was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Thurgau in 1972 as the first woman for the FDP . Twelve years later she was expelled from the party because she had organized a peace camp in protest against the army show in Frauenfeld and had founded a group of " Women for Peace ".
Shaken up by the film Bananera Libertad by Peter von Gunten , in which the social and ecological grievances in banana cultivation in Central America were discussed, Brunner began campaigning for a “fair trade” in bananas and other products from developing countries from 1973 onwards . She and her fellow campaigners organized themselves as "Banana women from Frauenfeld" and sensitized the public to the problems of world trade and banana cultivation.
Brunner and the “Banana Women” are considered to be the pioneers of fair trade in Switzerland. She was awarded the Zug Culture Prize in 2003 and the Women's Business Award of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences in 2014. She died in Frauenfeld in March 2017 at the age of 92.
Works
- Banana women. Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7193-1171-6 .
literature
- Association of Thurgau women yesterday - today - tomorrow (Ed.): Down-to-earth and limitless. 200 years of Thurgau women's history (s) . Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld 1998, ISBN 3-7193-1159-7 , p. 229, 234-236 .
- Valerie Zaslawski: Paving the way for fair trade. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . 5th August 2013.
- Anna Miller: The Banana Queen . In: Eastern Switzerland on Sunday . No. 37 . St. Gallen September 13, 2015, p. 23–24 ( tagblatt.ch ).
- Ursula Brunner's estate in the ThurgauerFrauenArchiv, StATG F 0'23 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ursula Brunner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Banana women website (archive version)
- Urs Tremp: The rebellious banana woman. Obituary in: NZZ am Sonntag of April 2, 2017, p. 19.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ursula Brunner's estate in the ThurgauerFrauenArchiv, StATG F 0'23 . Retrieved July 25, 2019.
- ↑ a b "We were outraged by so much injustice." Hochschule Luzern - Das Magazin, February 2015, pp. 28–30.
- ↑ a b Tatjana Stocker: Fairtrade: The Banana Woman . Observer 9/2009, June 25, 2009.
- ↑ «Bananenfrau» Ursula Brunner receives the Women's Business Award 2014. Press release from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, 18 November 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brunner, Ursula |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brunner-Storz, Ursula |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss activist for fair trade and politician (FDP) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frauenfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23rd March 2017 |
| Place of death | Frauenfeld |