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Born in Zurich – a life story

“Born in Zurich – Ursula Biondi” is the life story of a woman who grew up in Zurich as an Italian of the fourth generation.

After a happy childhood Ursula’s life completely gets into disorder little by little, on the one hand because of her first love and the other hand because of the process of naturalization. She runs away from home and flees to a friend in Italy. There she is picked up and sent back to Switzerland. Without really having committed a violation of the law, she is admitted to the women’s prison Hindelbank, there, at the age of 17 ½ she gives birth to her son. When she is released from prison, she picks up her life with great resolution and sweeping success. – The dramatic events occurred in the late 60s of the pas century.

Ursula Biondi tells her experiences in an engaged and vivid manner so that the reader is extremely moved. One is convinced that her life would have taken another turn, if she had a Swiss name instead of the Italian Biondi, e. g. that of her old-established Swiss ancestors on her mother’s side Halser or those on her father’s side Widmer or Keller.

She interprets her book as a report on the “zeitgeist” of that time: The reader gains an insight into the process of naturalisation that was applied with full force. Furthermore, the author describes the disastrous consequences that laws and regulations like prohibition of concubinage and marriage, which are repealed nowadays, had on her life.

 

Ursula needs over 30 years for treating and writing all here remembers
 

 

 

 

Administrativ-Versorgte
... weibliche Teenager zwischen 14 und 18 Jahren ...
    1942–1981
... damit man nie vergisst, was man uns angetan hat...

Treffen in Hindelbank
Betroffene, die an diesem Anlass im Spätsommer 2010 teilnehmen möchten,
melden sich  bei Projektleiterin Ursula Biondi, Anlaufstelle für administrativ
versorgte Frauen und Männer 1942–1981, Postfach 554, 8044 Zürich,
Telefon: 079 207 61 26, E-Mail:
umb@bluewin.ch