Ursula Fahrtisen

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Ursula Fahrtisen (born March 6, 1948 in Schaffhausen ) is a Swiss sociologist. She studied at the JW Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and at the Université René Descartes / Sorbonne in Paris (Maîtrise 1974). She did her doctorate and habilitation at the University of Bern (1989 and 2000).

Live and act

In Paris, Ursula Fahrtisen was involved in the early debates on 'feminist science'. She was an activist in the women's movement and became one of its exponents in Switzerland. After a substitute for a professorship at the Free University of Berlin (2001), she worked as a professor at the University of Education and as a private lecturer at the University of Bern until reaching the age limit in 2013 . From 2009 to 2019 she was a member of the management group of the National Research Program 'End of Life' (NRP 67) of the National Fund , and she is co-president of the Research Committee on Health and Medical Sociology of the Swiss Society for Sociology.

Scientific publications (selection)

  • Status transitions in the female CV. About work, family and power in marriage. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1991, ISBN 3-593-34475-0
  • Medicine and death. About professional strategies between clinic and pathology. Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2001, ISBN 978-3-8100-3016-0
  • Conveying and reading out. Patterns of interpretation by teachers on a professional dilemma. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007 (together with Denis Hänzi and Andrea Hungerbühler), ISBN 978-3-531-15346-9 ( online )

Journalism (selection)

  • Autonomy of the women's movement. Notes on the relationship between the women's movement and the labor movement. In: contradiction, 1981, issue 2, 41-55
  • From the sacred halls of education to customer-oriented knowledge production? A problem outline for the university in our time. In: ZeitSchrift, No. 5, October 1997, 341–351
  • The end of life in Switzerland. Individual and social perspectives. Schwabe Verlag, Basel 2019 (together with Markus Zimmermann, Stefan Felder and Brigitte Tag), ISBN 978-3-7965-3748-6 ( online )

Literature about Ursula Fahrtisen (selection)

  • Heinz Nigg (2008), “Ursula Routeisen, 1948, Professor of Sociology at the University of Education in Bern”. In: Heinz Nigg, We are few, but we are all. Biographies from the 68 generation in Switzerland. Zurich: Limmat Verlag 2008, 345–355, ISBN 978-3-85791-546-8 ( online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Fahrtisen - New Women's Movement 2.0. University of Bern - Historical Institute, accessed on August 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ End of life National Research Program NRP 67 | Organization. Swiss National Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (SNSF), accessed on May 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Research Committee for Health and Medical Sociology of the Swiss Society for Sociology. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Stretch iron, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaffhausen