Zurich: People
Interesting people form Zurich
Max Bill
Max Bill was born in Winterthur on 22 December 1908. His original training was as a silversmith, though he became an architect, artist and designer. On completing his apprenticeship in 1927, he went to Dessau, Germany, to study at the Bauhaus with Alber, Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy, Schlemmer and others. During the 1930s, Bill was one of the main protagonists of "Concrete Art." In the late 1940s/early 1950s he was a co-founder of the School of Design in Ulm. In addition to his teaching assignments, Bill was a member of the Swiss National Council. He spent the last years of his life in Berlin, where he died on 9 December 1994.
Charles Lewinsky
Charles Lewinsky, born on 14 April 1946, is a Swiss scriptwriter and author. He studied German in Zurich and Berlin. In 1984, jointly with Doris Morfs, he published his first book, "Hitler on the Rütli." Lewinsky became known in Switzerland in the mid-1990s through the SF television series "Fascht e Familie" with Walter Andreas Müller and Martin Schenkel. Lewinsky now lives in Vereux, in the département of Haute-Saône, France.
Jaqueline Fehr
Jaqueline Fehr is a Swiss politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland. She was born in Wallisellen on 1 June 1963. She has spent most of her career as a project worker, but was launched into politics on her election to the Winterthur City Parliament in 1990. From 1991 to 1998, she was a member of the Zurich Cantonal Parliament, before moving on to the National Council in 1998.
Brigitte Oertli
Life began for Brigitte Oertli in Egg on 10 June 1962. The former swiss ski racer achieved her greatest sporting successes in the late 1980s. In 1988 she won the silver medal in the downhill and Alpine combination at the Olympics in Calgary, Canada. One year later at the world championchip in Vail she recived the bronze medal. She has won a total of nine world cup races. In 1990 Oertli retired from active skiing.
