chairs dancing on the heads of the audience, hectic the Last try to get a place. No one needs to face at the end, as SVP national councillor Natalie Rickli enters the lectern in the Eulachhalle in Winterthur as a Welcome: “This we owe to you, dear Mr Alt-Bundesrat, Christoph Blocher .” The chose for his Berchtold tags talk this time, the Canton of Zurich, probably the election campaign of the councillor candidates Rickli boost. The Blocher-Fan community traveled, estimated between 700 and 800 persons, with a predominantly grey to white hair.
Despite Wintiwurst and Jodelchor atmosphere comes not people. The decoration is a striking, subtle, green Paper tablecloths, yellow napkins and flowers next to the pulpit.
Intellectual after the gluttony
With his Berchtold tags speech want said days Blocher to his Fans “to the world of something Spiritual,” as he offered the “Country”. The SVP-Father is a lawyer, ventures but in his Speeches again and again on historic ground. In his last lecture to the country to strike in type, he thanked the soldiers for their service and triggered fierce criticism. In the case of the labour protests, three watches, workers of law enforcement officers were killed.
tages-Anzeiger.ch/Newsnet has listened to Blochers first speech in the new year together with historian Marlis Betschart. She directs the Winterthur archive of the city and the personalities who paid tribute to Blocher in his speech, familiar: the Sulzer brothers, art collector Oskar Reinhart, and the Federal Council, Jonas Furrer. To have all of them, he has an inner relationship, announced Blocher in advance.
“Christoph Blocher
search in history
references to itself
and its values”Marlis Betschart
The announcement Marlis finds Betschart indicative of Blochers dealing with history: “He’s looking for in the history of references to himself and his values,” she says. And in fact, Blocher linked to the historic Winterthur personalities again and again sent. The Sulzer brothers that were at the origin of a multi-national company, would have been considered as global and local traded – that was always his Motto. Jonas Furrer, who was 13 years in the Federal Council, went only reluctantly, and Bern – just like Blocher. Art collector Oskar Reinhardt loved the artist Anker and Hodler, as Blocher.
Blochers lecture commemorates the heroes of the stories. “Anywhere, where Large happens are big personalities at work”, he explains, is called the Sulzer brothers “glorious” and Jonas Furrer a great to Some and yet always humble. The women also mentioned Blocher – as mothers and providers of indoor and fostered the talents of their sons early, or good souls who taught your high-spirited men Mass. With sayings such as “So I have that experience also in my budget”, gets Blocher audience laugh.
stories instead of history
“But in terms of the story with the perspective of great men, historians have moved away a long time,” says Marlis Betschart. “With the focus on Glorious, it hides very much.” Much more exciting than what he says, Betschart, what says Blocher: things about the lives of the workers during the industrialization, or why Oskar Reinhart already at the age of 39 years, financially as well was that he was only able to collect art, or what was Furrer for a bad rhetorician.
As Blocher, the SVP in the 19th century. Century, have to laugh Betschart. “We were in on it too,” said Blocher, at that time, as the liberal politician Jonas Furrer in 1848, at the first Federal Constitution, Switzerland has worked. The SVP was founded in 1971, the farmers, trade and citizens party arose from the they to 1917. However, Furrer fits Blocher in the stuff. He insisted on the neutrality of Switzerland: “The independent Switzerland will continue to rule itself”, he quotes him, and refers to today’s politicians, the commitment to the framework agreement with the EU.
Such analogies are for Betschart is not legitimate: “events must always be in the context of their time.” Quotes of the time could not be indiscriminately transferred to today. Similar is observed when Blocher of the digitisation speaks, and in a train with the portrait from the 19th century. Century, stresses, in turn, the role of personalities. “So he doesn’t get the people to compare the times, but it is so easy,” she says. Blochers more stories than history, are Talking. “And you must also apply.” (Tages-Anzeiger)
Created: 03.01.2019, 11:51 PM
