At the invitation of the Soroptimist Club Interlaken, BPW Club Interlaken-Oberhasli and the Bödeli Library, Christina Caprez will read from her book and talk about the process of writing it.
On September 13, 1931, the Grisons mountain village of Furna does something that no other community in Switzerland has dared to do before: It elected a woman pastor. A scandal that made headlines as far away as Germany. Greti Caprez-Roffler is 25 years old, a newly qualified theologian and mother. She moves to the mountain village with her baby, her husband stays in Zurich as an engineer. The authorities confiscate the parish's assets, but the pastor continues to work for "God's reward".
After her death, the granddaughter follows in the footsteps of the first Swiss female parish priest. She comes across the extraordinary emancipation story of a woman who introduced ski pants for girls in the village, who inspired her husband to study theology and who shared the pastorate with him long before the term existed. A woman who claimed for herself what was unthinkable for many at the time; to pursue her vocation and be a mother, to live a happy love and a fulfilled sexuality.
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On September 13, 1931, the Grisons mountain village of Furna does something that no other community in Switzerland has dared to do before: It elected a woman pastor. A scandal that made headlines as far away as Germany. Greti Caprez-Roffler is 25 years old, a newly qualified theologian and mother. She moves to the mountain village with her baby, her husband stays in Zurich as an engineer. The authorities confiscate the parish's assets, but the pastor continues to work for "God's reward".
After her death, the granddaughter follows in the footsteps of the first Swiss female parish priest. She comes across the extraordinary emancipation story of a woman who introduced ski pants for girls in the village, who inspired her husband to study theology and who shared the pastorate with him long before the term existed. A woman who claimed for herself what was unthinkable for many at the time; to pursue her vocation and be a mother, to live a happy love and a fulfilled sexuality.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
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