Cluster: Swiss Identity

Traditional Instruments – Swiss Folk Music

This content was published on Dec 8, 2011 There are a number of instruments which, though not in all cases unique to Swiss folk music, are nevertheless associated most readily with Switzerland. The alphorn, the hackbrett (a kind of dulcimer), and the Langnauer- and Schwyzerörgeli (two rustic Swiss types of simple button-key accordions). Most folk musicians in Switzerland are still non-professionals. This fact…

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Minister urges support for climate refugees

This content was published on Dec 8, 2011 Speaking before the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva on Thursday, she said Switzerland wanted to help find solutions for these people. “A chasm has developed between existing agreements and the needs of reality. We believe that a more coherent approach is required to provide the necessary protection for people crossing borders…

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Basel produce Christmas miracle

This content was published on Dec 8, 2011 Basel’s 2:1 victory at home saw three-time European champion Manchester United exit the championship in the group stage. A draw would have been enough to take them into the knockout rounds. Goals from captain Marco Streller and striker Alex Frei ensured the English side’s humiliation and Basel’s place in the last 16. “Today is Christmas!”…

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Writers who created imaginary Graubünden

This content was published on Dec 7, 2011 Literary tourists on the trail of the great authors in Graubünden often end up at Elisabeth Maranta’s bookshop Il Palantin in the city of Chur, a small, old-fashioned literary bookshop, the shelves crowded with books in the four languages of Switzerland and English too. Maranta has owned and operated for the store for the past…

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An interview with Bruno Manser (1990)

This content was published on Dec 7, 2011

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20 years on, NGO vows to fight corruption

This content was published on Dec 7, 2011 BMF remains one of the few non-Malaysian organisations still campaigning on behalf of the Penan, an indigenous people living in some of the world’s most biodiverse forests in Sarawak on the island of Borneo. Two-thirds of its forests have been destroyed in recent years for logging or to build palm oil plantations. Now the BMF…

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Four out of five wear winter sports helmet

This content was published on Dec 6, 2011 Helmet wearing – considered an oddity a decade ago – has rapidly become the norm, jumping from a rate of just 16 per cent in 2002/3. The Council, which has campaigned hard for winter sport safety, said it was very pleasing that helmet wearing had become so commonplace. Of the two million Swiss residents who…

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Keeping up the St Nicholas tradition

This content was published on Dec 6, 2011 St Nicholas, who is known as Samichlaus in Swiss German, dispenses gifts of chocolate, nuts and fruit – as well as sage advice – to children. This differs from the more Anglo-Saxon tradition of Father Christmas, the ubiquitous jolly old man who delivers presents and fills stockings that are opened on Christmas Day. But the…

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Echo vom Zürihorn: Wanderlust

This content was published on Dec 5, 2011 Mystic Dance Echo vom Züerihorn

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Patriotic Swiss Songs and Marches (Part II) – Special Events / Editions

This content was published on Dec 5, 2011 In addition to regular performances in Switzerland, the band has also successfully appeared at international festivals in France and West Germany and on Japanese television. Musical content (Part II): 1. Schweizer Psalm.(Alberich Zwyssig) 2. Berner Marsch(Trad.) 3. Marche du Régiment de Diesbach(Trad.) 4. Zürcher Sechseläuten Marsch(Trad.) 5. Wettstein Marsch(Trad. / Hermann Suter) 6. Marche vaudoise(Emile…

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