Verena Grendelmeier

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Verena Grendelmeier

Verena Grendelmeier (born February 16, 1939 in Zurich ; † March 27, 2018 there ; entitled to live there ) was a Swiss politician ( LdU ), actress , director , television presenter and journalist .

biography

Verena Grendelmeier

She grew up with her two siblings (a brother and a sister) in Küsnacht . During her childhood she was decisively shaped by her father Alois Grendelmeier , who was National Councilor of the LdU from 1949 to 1965. He took a liberal and anti-fascist attitude. Although there were sometimes arguments between her and her father, they shared the same basic political values ​​from then on. She also adopted the philosophy of her father that it is not crucial whether you emerge victorious in a dispute, but that you have represented a good cause correctly and correctly.

Verena Grendelmeier went to high school in the city of Zurich and Basel and continued her education as a primary school teacher after graduating from high school. She taught as a primary school teacher in Erlenbach . However, she wanted to change her career, and so, although her dream of many years as a conductor, she decided to train as an actress and director and therefore trained in Paris with Jacques Lecoq and in Vienna at the Max Reinhardt Seminar .

After her training, she worked as an assistant director to Jean-Louis Barrault at the Théâtre National de l'Odéon and later as an actress in Germany . Eventually she moved back to Switzerland and became an actress and director at the Stadttheater Bern .

She came to Swiss television in 1967 and became the presenter of the programs Tatsachen undätze and Rundschau . She also made documentary programs such as the five-part program “In the same boat - the mentally ill and us”, the program “May 68 - ten years later” or the program “Seveso five years after the poison accident”.

She was on the Zurich Cantonal Council from 1973 to 1979 and was elected to the National Council in 1983 . She had to resign as a journalist for Swiss television because of her election to the National Council. She was National Councilor from November 28, 1983 to April 19, 1999. From 1992 she was President of the LdU / EPP parliamentary group . As a member of the National Council, Verena Grendelmeier laid the foundation for the processing of dormant assets from the Second World War in Swiss banks . With a parliamentary initiative submitted in March 1995, it encouraged the National Council's Legal Affairs Commission to take action on this matter.

After her mandate from the National Council, she worked as a media lecturer in the training of television and radio presenters and gave introductory courses for politicians, business representatives and scientists who had to appear on television. She was single and lived in Zurich.

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  1. ↑ Verena Grendelmeier on the website of the Federal Assembly ( submitted proposals )
  2. ↑ Obituary .
  3. ↑ Anton Schaller : Grendi - the special National Council. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from April 11, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b c d Verena Grendelmeier on the website of the Federal Assembly ( submitted proposals )
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Prof. Dr. theol. Werner Kramer : Laudation for Verena Grendelmeier: On the occasion of the awarding of the Fischhof Prize on May 5, 1994. (PDF; 11 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gra.ch
  6. ↑ 95.407 - Parliamentary Initiative: Property of Victims of National Socialist Persecution without ownership
personal data
SURNAME Grendelmeier, Verena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (LdU), actress, director, television presenter and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2018
Place of death Zurich