Klinik Arlesheim: call for stories

In preparation for its centenary in 2021 the Arlesheim Hospital (Klinik Arlesheim, CH) is looking for people willing to share their own – or their grandparents’ – personal memories of the hospital.

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Ita Wegman fell in love with “the little house with the big apple tree”. A hundred years ago, on 23 September 1920, she bought the property at Pfeffingerweg 1 in Arlesheim (CH) and had it turned into a small hospital. In June 21 she received the first patients and began to develop Anthroposophic Medicine at the bedside. This impulse has grown into a global movement, with hospitals and therapy centres around the world.

On the occasion of the hospital’s centenary in 2021, we are looking for people who have a story to tell: what is their connection with the hospital, what do they remember? Maybe someone even remembers their grandmother or grandfather talking about their experiences. We are interested in everything in relation to the Clinical-Therapeutic Institute, as the hospital was called during its first 50 years, to the Ita Wegman Klinik (from 1971), the Lukas Klinik (1963 to 2013), or the Klinik Arlesheim, as it has been called since the fusion of the two hospitals, Ita Wegman Klinik and Lukas Klinik, in 2014.

We are interested in your personal story, what springs to your mind when you think of the hospital; a story you would tell if someone asked you about this hospital; something you experienced there or that highlights your connection with the place. We would like to use these stories – on our anniversary website, in a possible publication or in an exhibition at the hospital.

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