Cluster: Swiss Identity

Swiss urged to provide missing links to Nazi-looted art

This content was published on Nov 7, 2013 Time is running out for the surviving members of the Jewish families whose art collections were plundered or confiscated by the Nazis during the last war. As restitution claims become more complex and cover different judicial territories, many rightful heirs are giving up. The Swiss Federal Office of Culture launched an online portal in June in an…

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Jetman conquers Mount Fuji

This content was published on Nov 6, 2013 Rossy completed nine flights in Japan between October 28 and November 3. His jetwing allows him to fly through the sky at speeds of up to 300km/h, controlling his suit with a throttle in his hand and his body. He can climb up to 3,600m and travel as far as 15km. Since 2004, the 54-year-old…

Breathing new life into an old language

This content was published on Nov 4, 2013 The participants had come to the small western Swiss town from France and Italy as well as Switzerland – places where they speak, or used to speak, the language commonly known as patois. The stalls in the hall where they met were selling CDs of songs in patois, patois dictionaries and books about patois –…

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Speaking up for patois

This content was published on Nov 4, 2013

‘Incredible experiences at a human level’

This content was published on Nov 3, 2013 Her own life has been full speed ahead marked by several sharp changes of course. Difficulties only stimulate her. “Sometimes I go looking for them”, she admits with a laugh. Yet when she welcomes me to her home in Lugano, it is surprising how this 55-year-old – who intrepidly takes on the ocean – seems…

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From the traditional silhouette to a work of art

This content was published on Nov 2, 2013 Black cows, goats and herdsmen: ever since the 18th century paper cuts have been the medium par excellence for illustrating the movement of animals up to the mountain pastures and back. Such traditional idyllic motives form part of the exhibition “Scherenschnitte. Papiers découpés. Silhouette. Paper cuts.” It is the eighth Swiss paper cut exhibition and…

Demographics

Swiss youth don’t want to rock the boat

This content was published on Oct 31, 2013 Around 1,000 people aged 16-25 from Switzerland, Brazil, the United States and Singapore were surveyed for the poll, which was published on Thursday. The results were influenced by each country’s economic situation and by job worries. Swiss young people are “in a special position in many respects thanks to the country’s prosperity and dual education…

Demographics

Swiss who changed the world

This content was published on Oct 30, 2013 As in any selection, the choice cannot but be subjective. It does not include all the great names from the areas of politics, business, science and art who have helped bring renown to this small country. But the men and the few women featured here were all great Swiss people.(Pictures: Keystone, akg images, RDB, Swiss…

Making a life work of playing with reality

This content was published on Oct 30, 2013 Schweiker was born in Zurich in 1989, the second of four daughters. Her father was an engineer, her mother a landscape gardener. When she was about to start school, the family moved to Heilbronn in the German state of Baden-Württemberg because of her father’s work. A disclaimer is needed here. Schweiker disdains conventional biographical details like ages,…

Demographics

Swiss study uncovers widespread sex abuse

This content was published on Oct 29, 2013 The figures come from a Zurich University study that questioned 6,000 ninth-grade students (aged 15-17) across the nation. Released on Tuesday, the study described the abuse as “alarmingly widespread”. However, it also said that there had not been an increase in more severe forms of abuse over the past two decades. Both genders reported “sexual…

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