Annette Frei Berthoud

Annette Frei Berthoud grew up in Härkingen. She studied history and ethnology at the University of Zurich from 1972. In 1978, she began working as a screenwriter and TV producer for Swiss television. In 1984, she married journalist and translator Jean Michel Berthoud. The couple have two children.

Her licentiate thesis at the University of Zurich dealt with the labor movement and women in Switzerland at the turn of the century. In connection with her research, she met the socialist women's rights activist Anny Klawa-Morf. This encounter led to the 1982 documentary film "Ich ha nie ufgä" (I never gave up), which was broadcast on Swiss television, and the book "Die Welt ist mein Haus. Das Leben der Anny Klawa-Morf" (The World is My Home: The Life of Anny Klawa-Morf), which was published by Limmat Verlag in 1991.