RHN 127/2024 | Publication
Video Essays in Rural History No. 5
A new video essay of the series “Video Essays in Rural History” by the European Rural History Film Association and the Archives of Rural History has been published.
The female farmer Mina Hofstetter worked on the Stuhlen farm on Lake Greifensee near Zurich from 1915 until the 1950s. Hofstetter became famous because she adopted a vegan diet from the early 1920s, ran her family farm without livestock, gave lectures in Switzerland and abroad, and ran introductory courses on organic farming. Together with the writers Elin Wägner and Anna Helene Askanasy-Mahler and the journalists Elisabeth Thommen, Irene Harand and Ellen Hoerup, Mina Hofstetter was also involved in the Women's Organisation for World Order, which was founded in 1935. She also explained her activities in letters, articles and brochures, which the Archives of Rural History published for the first time in August 2024 (see RHN 128/2024).
Moser, Peter; Wigger Andreas: Was für ein Leben! Mina Hofstetter – eine ökofeministische Pionierin des biologischen Landbaus, AfA/ERHFA Videoessay Nr. 5, 2024. Online: https://www.ruralfilms.eu/essays/videoessay_5_DE.html.
Source: https://www.ruralfilms.eu/essays/videoessay_5_EN.html