Bert Rahm – Wikipedia Wikipedia

Picture of the Berta Rahm, named Bertastrasse in Zurich 3,

Berta rahm (Born October 4, 1910 in St. Gallen, † October 10, 1998 in Neunkirch) was a Swiss architect, publisher and women’s rights activist.

In 1914, her mother moved back to her homeland Hallau with the children, where Berta Rahm attended the schools. The Matura took her off in Schaffhausen after attending the cantonal school there. In her belief that the view that the view that as a woman has successfully allowed a demanding, respected profession would not be long in Switzerland would not be long in coming.
With the support of her uncle Arnold Meyer, who operated a successful architecture firm in Hallau, Berta Rahm studied architecture at ETH Zurich from 1929 to 1934 as one of the first women. After graduating from Otto Rudolf Salvisberg in 1934, she opened an architecture firm in Zurich in the same year. In 1935 she traveled to Holland and Denmark thanks to a travel scholarship from ETH. ^{[first] [2]} The subsequent trip to Scandinavia and Finland, which was made possible by competitive prize money in 1939, sustainably influenced Berta Rahm. On the one hand, the Nordic architects embodied the image of a committed profession and on the other hand it was impressed by the emancipated lifestyle of women in the Scandinavian countries. ^[3] In 1942 she published a travel report with her own sketches. ^[4] In 1951, with the Nägelisehof in Hallau, she created an exceptionally modern farm for her time, whose special open stable system was admired by visitors from all over Europe.

According to employment at u. Rudolf Olgiati in Flims, William Dunkel and Ernst Schindler in Zurich and Arnold Meyer in Hallau, Berta Rahm founded their own architectural firm in Zurich in 1940. Her most important works include the Laueli holiday home in Hasliberg, the Nägelisehof with an open stable based on the Danish model in Hallau and the Annexbau of the Club Pavilion of the Saffa in 1958 in Zurich. Rahm’s hope for the transfer of the project management of the SAFFA smashed, instead it was transferred to the architect Annemarie Hubacher-Constam. However, the latter shared her office with her husband, Hans Hubacher, whom Rahm worked independently and independently. ^[5] In all of its projects, she did the planning work, tenders and construction management alone. As a pioneer, however, she struggled in the industry dominated by men. ^[6] It was excluded by the authorities as an architect for public buildings and a building application for a residential building in Hallau rejected it. ^[7] Rahm then appealed to this decision and thus reached the Federal Supreme Court, but her lawsuit was rejected, although the unequal treatment was recognized. ^{[8] [9]}

Berta Rahm ended her job as an architect and became a publisher and author in 1966 due to the many setbacks and the de facto impossibility. In 1967 she founded Ala Verlag, which specializes in feminist literature. For example, she relocated works by Mary Wollstonecraft and Hedwig Dohm and a biography of Flora Tristan. She also published a book about the life of the peace activist and feminist Marie Goegg-Pouchoulin. For each publication she wrote a detailed prediction and afterword.

Rahm was a member of the Swiss engineering and architectural association, the Union Internationale of the Femm Architects and the federal government of Swiss women’s organizations. ^[ten]

buildings [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

• Holiday house Laueli in Hohfluh am Hasliberg (BE), 1940
• Open stable and renovation house Nägelisehof in Hallau (SH), 1951
• Residential building in Wilchingen (SH), 1958
• Annexbau Club Pavillon, Saffa in Zurich, 1958

After the end of the exhibition, the Annex of the Club Pavilion was transferred to Gossau ZH and converted by Berta Rahm to the company canteen of Hauser Mushon Kulturen AG. However, the clubhouse was forgotten and should give way to a new building. ^[11] In 2020, a successful call for donations from the ProSaffa1958 pavilion association saved the building from demolition and enabled professional disassembly. ^[twelfth]

Publications [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

• Berta Rahm: 1939: trip to Scandinavia and Finland . Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1942
• Berta Rahm: From furnished rooms to the apartment: suggestions for setting up individual rooms and apartments . Swiss Spiegel Verlag, 1947
• Charles Neilson Gattey; Berta Rahm: Tristan Flora . Ala Verlag, Zurich, 1971
• Minna Schelle Cauer, Berta Rahm: Hedwig Dohm: Memories and other writings by and about Hedwig Dohm. Ala Verlag, Zurich, 1980
• Berta Rahm, Marie Goegg: Marie Goegg (born Pouchoulin): Co -founder of the International League for Peace and Freedom: Founder of the International Women’s Association, the Journal des Femmes and the Solidarité. Ala-Verlag, Zurich, 1993, ISBN 3-85509-032-7

In honor of her in the city of Zurich, a shield reminiscent of it was attached to the Bertastrasse, which had long existed.

1. ↑ Evelyne Lang: The first women architects in Switzerland and their pioneers internationally . EPF Lausanne, Lausanne 1993, S. 434 .
2. ↑ Evelyne Long Jacob: The Life and Work of Berta Rahm (1910–1998) . In: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Hrsg.): IWA Newsletter . No. 11 . Virginia 1999.
3. ↑ Evelyne Lang: The first women architects in Switzerland and their pioneers internationally . EPFL Lausanne, Lausanne 1993, S. 434 .
4. ↑ Berta Rahm: 1939: trip to Scandinavia and Finland . Ed.: Büchergilde Gutenberg. Zurich 1942.
5. ↑ Elisabeth Joris: Berta Rahm. Kühne constructions. Scandinavian building style and feminist classics. In: Switzerland project: forty -four portraits of passion , Hg .: Stefan Howdal, Union Vegration 2021, S. 468
6. ↑ Elisabeth Joris: Independent and emancipatory: pioneers of feminist self -powers . In: Reforms beyond the revolt . Chronos-Publising, 2018, ISBN 978-3-0340-1428-1, S. 95–106 .
7. ↑ Swiss social archive: AR 198.15.3. Varia, Mäppe Varia: Heinzelmann, conference conference with Ms. Berta Rahm . 25. April 1967.
8. ↑ Office against the office and association of association: If an architect wants to build … In: Migros cooperative association (ed.): The fact . March 8, 1965.
9. ↑ Office against the office and association of association: When an architect fights … In: Migros cooperative association (ed.): The fact . 4. April 1965.
10. ↑ Evelyne Long Jacob: Rahm, Berta. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
11. ↑ One of the last buildings of Saffa 1958 – monument preservation. March 23, 2020, accessed on October 8, 2020 (Swiss High German).
12. ↑ HOME. Accessed on October 7th, 2020 .