The doctoral hat in the broom cupboard: the adventurous life of the first female students - the example of the University of Bern

With pictures. Bern 1999/2002.

"The Bernese historian Franziska Rogger searched on site and found something that is probably not very well known: documents and pictures about the life and work of the first female students at the University of Bern. Franziska Rogger traces the lives of these early students in brief strokes; for example, the adventurous path of the medical student Vera Figner, who studied in Bern from 1873 to 1875 under the later Nobel Prize winner Theador Kocher, but then abandoned her studies in favor of revolutionary underground activities. Many fates are presented or recalled here; impressive, for example, is the career of the philosopher Anna Tumarkin, who became Bern's first private lecturer in 1898 and in 1909 - through her professorship in Bern - Europe's first examining lecturer." Zurich, rox, Neue Zürcher Zeitung 6./7.11.1999

"The Bern University archivist has meticulously brought a good 200 names to light. For many of them, it is only enough for a kind of lexical entry, but numerous scientists are presented with photos and detailed biographies." Süddeutsche Zeitung 1.3.2000

“Cossack horses trotted along,” Urs Wüthrich in: Berner Zeitung, 04.03.2010.

Selection: Books, articles, radio programs

- It is the grey literature.... In: Swiss National Library 125 years. Ed. SNB, Red. Cathy Strahm, Hannes Mangold. [Bern] 2020, p. 158.

- Radio interview, Context Unyielding to the Bone 14.1.2019, 17:58. The young Rosa Luxemburg was highly intelligent, was one of the first female students at the University of Zurich and appeared as a brilliant speaker at political events of the left in Switzerland. Sabine Bitter looks back with historian Franziska Rogger on Rosa Luxemburg's eventful years as a student in Zurich. https://www.srf.ch/play/radio/popupaudioplayer?id=5c74fcba-f7d9-4a2b-bd3a-589c97e284e1&startTime=13.734

- Radio interview: SRF 1 Buchzeichen, The Forgotten Einstein. June 19, 2018. On the novels by Slavenka Drakulic and Marie Benedict. https://www.srf.ch/sendungen/buchzeichen/die-vergessene-einstein

- ORF/ Radio Ö1, Radiokolleg, 24.5.2017, Women in Russia. Interview with Brigitte Voykowitsch

- TV interview, Tagesschau. On the death of Marthe Gosteli, 8.4.2017. https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/tagesschau/video/tagesschau-vom-08-04-2017-1930?id=9eef80c7-5963-4ebf-a0ba-b891fff5909d

- Radio interview: About suffragettes and Switzerland. Kultur kompakt 4.2.2016, 12.10 https://www.srf.ch/play/radio/popupaudioplayer?id=e021fa57-226f-4ec3-b5e9-aeadac5489fb

- Radio interview: This relationship was under the Eros of the intellect. About Mileva Maric. SRF Zeitblende, 19.12.2015, 13.03. https://www.srf.ch/sendungen/zeitblende/diese-beziehung-stand-unter-dem-eros-des-intellekts

- Biel's first female doctors. In: Seebutz. Local history book of Seeland and Murtenbiet 2015. Biel 2014.

- Jewish students and teachers at the Bern University, in: As if above clouds. Jewish life and thought in the city and region of Bern, Zurich 2014, pp. 295-335.

- Pushed across borders, not pulled. On the cross-border mobility of the Russian pioneers of Swiss women's studies. In: Itinera [Fasc. 31: From Bologna to `Bologna`. Academic mobility and its limits], Hr. von Christian Hesse, Tina Maurer, Basel 2011. http://www.sgg-ssh.ch/de/von-bologna-zu-bologna-akademische-mobilitaet-und-ihre-grenzen

- Bern's modern times, the 19th and 20th centuries rediscovered, edited by Peter Martig ... [et al.]. Editor: Charlotte Gutscher, Bern 2011. In it: The Bern University in its internationality, pp. 447-455. Bern Nobel Prize winners, p. 454, Anna Tumarkin p. 448/449

- Radio DRS, 31.08.2010, 9 a.m.: Courageous leaps. "All of Europe is watching us!" gives insights into Swiss women's studies and its Russian pioneers. http://www.srf.ch/play/radio/kontext/audio/mutige-spruenge-im-sachbuchtrio?id=4aa50f20-949d-41ae-835e-0f7809fe14f6

- Rogger Franziska and Monika Bankowski "All of Europe is watching us!": Swiss women's studies and its Russian pioneers. With pictures. Baden 2010. www.boehlau-verlag.com/buecher and www.nzz-libro.ch

- Interview with F. Rogger and M.Bankowski by Urs Rauber in NZZ am Sonntag / Bücher am Sonntag, 25.04.2010: «Now the two proven experts have joined forces to produce an amusing, richly illustrated and well-written book on Swiss women's studies and its Russian pioneers: «The whole of Europe is watching us»!

- 40 fragments and various articles on 175 years of the University of Bern, in: UniPress Bern 2009/2010:

- The magic of Bern, about the Russian women in Bern and Theodor Kocher, in: UniPress 144, April 2010;

- Also at home in art, Bernese lecturers as artists, in: UniPress 143, Dec. 2009;

- University management in 1900, generalists at the University of Bern, in: UniPress 143, Dec. 2009;

- Early weather fairies and their lasting services, meteorological observations, in: UniPress 141, June 2009;

- Science, fiction and fun with Bern's old observatories, space, in: UniPress 140, April 2009.

- And the samovar is always babbling, about Russian female students in Switzerland around 1870, in: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte BEZG 4, 2009, p. 54 57. http://www.bezg.ch/img/publikation/09_4/rogger.pdf

- Gertrud Woker (1878-1968), No pacifism without political equality for women, in: The struggle for equal rights. Basel 2009, pp. 304-309

- Female doctors: rare inclusions in the medical world, in: From sociability to professional politics: 200 years of the Medical Association of the Canton of Bern, 1809-2009. Bern 2008, pp. 130-143.

- ORF Salzburg. Austria Image. Interview in the film about Rosa Kerschbaumer: The Angel with the Scalpel, 23.3.2008

- The University and its collected history(ies), in: UniPress 139, Bern, Dec. 2008, p. 12 ff.

- Even then, the world was not in order. In: 100 Years of the Main Building of the University of Bern, unipress special issue for the exhibition, Bern 2003, pp. 13-15. Even in the good old days of 1903, when the new main building on the Grosse Schanze was inaugurated, people mourned the good old days because even then, the world was not in order.

- Feminist euphoria, scandals and Nobel Prizes. In: 100 Years of the Main Building of the University of Bern, unipress special issue for the exhibition, Bern 2003, pp. 18-22. The University of Bern in 1903 was the largest Swiss university and had its heyday during the Belle Epoque. Albert Einstein married, lived and worked in Bern. Nobel Prize winners Theodor Kocher (Medicine NP 1909) and Albert Gobat (Peace NP 1902) headed the University of Bern as rector and education director respectively. At the university, a pioneer of women's studies, a third of the students were women and Anna Tumarkin was the first female private lecturer.

- The sacrifice of the people of Bern for their university in 1903. In: 100 Years of the Main Building of the University of Bern, unipress special issue for the exhibition, Bern 2003, p. 23-25. The individual student cost the individual Bern citizen much more in 1903 than today. Amazing statistics!

- Goiter campaign, malt candies and women's rights. On the 50th anniversary of the death of the first Bernese school doctor, Dr. med. Ida Hoff, 1880-1952. In: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde, Issue 3, Bern 2002, pp. 101-119.

- They fought for themselves and human rights: an exhibition in the Bern City and University Library about 20 years of the Gosteli Foundation - Archive on the history of the Swiss women's movement. In: Libernensis No. 1, Bern 2002, pp. 8-11 - The Golden Books of the Free Students' Union: famous personalities, valuable autographs, profound wisdom. In: Der kleine Bund No. 263, Bern 2001

- Rohher Francyska, Philosopher Hanna Tumarkina: persaja u Europe zancyna-dacent. In: Vicebski sytak 4, Vicebsk 2000, S. 74-83.

- Jewish university life in Bern: Between socialism and Zionism, anti-Semitism and National Socialism. In: The charm and strangeness of Jewish culture. Bern cultural history lectures 1998/99. Bern 2000, pp. 143-180.

- The lawyer and editor Lina Stadlin-Graf. Respected, not accepted. In: FrauenLeben Appenzell. Herisau 1999. P. 472-480.

- Dr. med. Laura Turnau: “Papa” of the Morgenlicht children’s home. In: FrauenLeben Appenzell. Herisau 1999, pp. 684-692.

- Thirst for knowledge, scholarship and critical spirit: Jewish students and teachers at the University of Bern. In: Der kleine Bund No. 242, Bern 1998.

- Hermann Hesse's honorary doctorate in Bern. A Nazi, a newcomer and a 'neighbor'. In: Quarto, magazine of the Swiss literary archive, issue 8, Bern 1997, pp. 48-55.

- The pioneering role of Russian female doctors at the University of Bern - inquisitive, self-sacrificing and revolutionary. In: 200 years of medical education in Bern. unipress special issue 93, Bern 1997, pp. 25-29

- Teachers between school, class and state. The history of the Bernese Teachers' Association. (Co-author). Bern 1992.- Disciplining those who discipline. Views of the correct beating regime in Bernese primary school classrooms. In: Bietenhard Benedikt et al. (ed.), Views of the correct regime. Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Beatrix Mesmer. Bern 1991, pp. 79-95.

- «We help ourselves!» The collective self-help of the workers' fraternity in 1848/49 and the individual self-help of Stephan Born. Diss. Bern 1985. Erlangen 1986

- From revolutionary refugee to honorable citizen of Basel. The eventful life of Stephan Born, in: Basler Magazin, weekend supplement of the Basler Zeitung, October 25, 1986.

- University history of Bern 1528-1984. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the University of Bern in 1984. (Co-author and speaker) Bern 1984.