Swiss Identity

Swiss or Tamil? Caught in the middle

This content was published on Apr 18, 2017 Tama Vakeesan was born in Switzerland – to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. Sometimes she doesn’t know where she belongs.

Culture

‘This is about Western perceptions…our relationship to this art’

This content was published on Apr 17, 2017 Bern and Switzerland have more connections to the Russian Revolution than we might at first imagine.

Demographics

Minority reports: foreigners, female professors and floating cows

This content was published on Apr 17, 2017 Here are a few of the stories we will bring you during the week starting on April 17.

Culture

The ladies, gentlemen and children and the Tramp

This content was published on Apr 16, 2017 The record was set to mark Chaplin’s birthday and to celebrate the first year of “Chaplin’s WorldExternal link”. The museum devoted to the London-born comic actor, director and composer is located in a 14-hectare park and occupies the mansion where the Chaplin family lived the last 25 years of Charlie Chaplin’s life.

History

Switzerland’s controversial Islamic leaders

This content was published on Apr 16, 2017 The recent expulsion of Swiss Imam Hani Ramadan from France is a reminder that Switzerland is home to several controversial Muslims.

History

Protestantism in Switzerland

This content was published on Apr 16, 2017 The origin of the Reformation is generally considered to date back to the publication in Germany of the Martin Luther’s 95 Theses on October 31, 1517. Most of these opposed the practice of selling indulgences (reducing the time spent in purgatory because of sin) to finance the construction of St Peter’s Basilica. Protestantism arrived in…

Easter in Switzerland: more than just eggs

This content was published on Apr 15, 2017 The Alpine nation retains a number of long-held Easter traditions, despite the commercialisation of the religious festival.

Demographics

Smashing concert

This content was published on Apr 14, 2017 (SRF Archive 1967/swissinfo.ch)

Gimme shelter: Stones’ 1967 Swiss concert turns nasty

This content was published on Apr 14, 2017 It’s been 50 years since fighting broke out at a Rolling Stones concert at the Hallenstadion in Zurich.

Demographics

Swiss politician guilty of helping illegal immigrants

This content was published on Apr 13, 2017 In a statement released on Thursday, the prosecutor said Mirra was guilty of violating the Swiss law on foreigners, and handed her an 80-day fine suspended for two years. The member of the Social Democratic party and her accomplice were intercepted by border guards in September 2016 while transporting four migrants of African origin in…

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