Brigitte Brun Petermann
Spechtstrasse 2
8966 Oberwil-Lieli

Phone: +41 56 633 71 92

Teacher of English and Spanish at:
Kantonsschule Limmattal
In der Luberzen 34
8902 Urdorf
phone: 044 736 14 14
fax: 044 736 14 99

responsibilities on the SATE committee:

• contact to VSG
• committee meetings

Patricia Burger

Teacher of English and German at:
Lycée Jean Piaget
Neuchâtel

responsibilities on the SATE committee:

• organizing courses and meetings

Martha Ritchie

Martha Ritchie arrived in Fribourg, Switzerland in 1972 with the intention of staying for a projected five years, the time her then husband estimated would be necessary to finish his university studies. But the good life, with career opportunities, has made leaving this medieval town an insurmountable challenge. So after earning first a license in English literature and then a doctorate in philosophy at Swiss universities, Martha decided to make Switzerland her home as well as to become a citizen.
Martha has worked in editing and translating and has been teaching on the secondary level for over twenty years. She has also held brief teaching appointments in the English department at the University of Fribourg.
She became involved in SATE after attending a course in creative writing—an area she still dreams of pursuing—and has organized WBZ courses and general assemble meetings for teachers of English since 2000. The satisfaction of meeting other like and un-like minded teachers and of being partly responsible for bring them together has kept her on this fun-loving, efficient committee. She hopes her continued efforts to serve SATE will be rewarded by attracting new, young teachers to the fold.

Hansueli Müller

Teacher of English and German at:
Gymnasium Liestal

responsibilities on the SATE committee:

• finances and website

Hanspeter Wenger

Before my retirement in 2006 I had been teaching at the Kantonsschule Sursee for more than three decades. In the course of the years I was building up a tradition of English theatre venues at our school. In fact, it became a place where English theatre companies performed regularly. For ten years I myself directed and produced a great number of one-act plays with public performances every year. During my sabbatical in 1994 I toured well-known drama schools in England and the USA and, as a result, started organizing creative drama workshops for the WBZ, with experts in the field. At the moment the WBZ goes through a restructuring process, which also means that, in the future, part of its courses will be organized and run by so-called “Weiterbildungsdelegierte”. Earlier this year they asked me to become their delegate for the English branch and to act as a kind of link between SATE and the WBZ, an assignment I accepted with much enthusiasm.

Dewi Williams

Dewi Williams taught English for many years at the Kantonsschule Olten and at the University of Berne. He is now semi-retired and devotes part of his time to organising language and literature courses for English teachers. He has been associated with SATE for some time, has written various articles for the SATE Journal and plays a role in establishing contact between the association and guest writers who are invited to run seminars in Switzerland.