Ja­kob Senn - The green Hein­rich von Fi­schen­thal

Until well into the 19th century, rural schools usually only taught children to read in the form of mechanical spelling. The desire to read was therefore limited for a long time among the general public. It was only the school reform of the 1830s that vigorously promoted the literacy and literacy of the rural population. The exemplary case of the Zurich Oberland poet Jakob Senn (1824-1879) shows the laborious ways in which the rural population, who were increasingly fond of reading, had to obtain their reading material in the 1830s and 1840s before they were suddenly confronted with an oversupply of books from the 1850s onwards saw. If you want, you can bring your cell phone and headphones to the exhibition. Public tours: 2.6. & 9.6. 11 a.m. each play: May 26, 24, 3 p.m