Swiss Identity

Just call me madame

This content was published on Aug 5, 2002 Henceforth, all women living in the city, regardless of age or marital status, must be addressed as “madame”. Lausanne decided to act after it received numerous complaints from single women when it sent out information about its new postal voting system. Now, computer records will be amended so that the title “mademoiselle” is removed. “In…

Jubilee 2000 breaks with Holocaust lawyer

This content was published on Aug 5, 2002 Jubilee 2000 – a coalition of church groups and unions – said on Monday it disapproved of the methods used by the United States lawyer, who is best known in Switzerland for his role in the Holocaust dormant accounts affair. The non-governmental organisation said it would continue to support the class-action suit against foreign banks,…

Culture

Rain fails to dampen Geneva’s “Lake Parade”

This content was published on Aug 5, 2002 Organisers said they were happy with the turnout even though it fell far short of last year’s 500,000-strong crowd. The day long techno festival took place on the shores of Lake Geneva on Saturday. In the afternoon 20 so-called “love mobiles” drove along the lake’s four-kilometre promenade accompanied by the beat of electronic music and…

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New York’s Swiss Institute gives clichés a miss

This content was published on Aug 4, 2002 A recent show by the Swiss artist, Urs Fischer, showed skeletons draped over benches and garish, childlike drawings of severed body parts. A background soundtrack told the story of a rotting tree, written and narrated by New York poet John Giorno. According to artistic director Marc-Olivier Wahler, the institute’s often bizarre or unsettling exhibitions are…

Culture

Pollack wins top film award

This content was published on Aug 4, 2002 The Swiss festival also honoured the actor and director, who started his filmmaking career in the 1960s, by screening his classic 1969 film “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They”. Pollack said he felt particularly honoured to win the award because the Locarno festival had a tradition of showing non-commercial films. Having not seen “They Shoot Horses,…

Geneva bookshop fined for royal shopping spree

This content was published on Aug 3, 2002 Fnac, a multimedia bookshop, has been at the centre of a recent controversy amid claims that it opened for business outside the city’s normal trading hours. The bookshop made itself available for after-hours trading in May for servants and relatives of King Fahd – who has been spending the summer in Switzerland. Swiss authorities pounced…

Culture

New book unwraps essence of Swiss

This content was published on Aug 3, 2002 “Beyond Chocolate – understanding Swiss culture”, by the Swiss-Scottish author Margaret Oertig-Davidson, has been written for native English speakers living and working in Switzerland, and for Swiss who have to deal with Americans, British or people from other English-speaking countries in their daily lives. “When you move to a new country you notice pretty quickly…

Culture

Locarno breaks new ground

This content was published on Aug 3, 2002 It is Bignardi’s second year as the festival’s artistic director and she is hoping that visitors will go away feeling as though they have been on a “voyage of discovery”. “I would love people who come to Locarno to feel as though they have travelled through unknown worlds,” she told swissinfo. “Not in a romantic…

Zurich dance fest set to beat Berlin’s Love Parade

This content was published on Aug 3, 2002 Now in its tenth year, the hugely popular festival of dance culture runs non-stop from Friday night until Monday morning, and peaks with a 2.2 kilometre parade through the city’s heart. Considered one of Europe’s biggest street parties, the Zurich festival is this year poised to overtake the famous Berlin Love Parade in terms of…

Demographics

Zero tolerance to combat graffiti pests

This content was published on Aug 3, 2002 Visitors to Switzerland are often shocked by the sheer amount of graffiti dominating the urban landscape and a common complaint is: “Why don’t the Swiss clear it off?” What is not apparent from a quick tour of Swiss cities is that graffiti is cleaned away on a daily basis, often within hours of it appearing.…

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