Head off! – Guido Varesi (People 2022, by Eleni Kougionis) - Swiss Press Award

Eleni Kougionis
Guido Varesi in seinem Henkermuseum im ehemaligen Gefängnis von Sissach im Kanton Basel-Landschaft.
DIE ZEIT – Schweizer Ausgabe
Photo / People
2022
Eleni Kougionis
Off with your head! "Several visitors have fainted in my executioner museum," says collector Guido Varesi. In the former prison of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, Varesi exhibits not only a guillotine and all sorts of torture instruments, but also the original executioner's sword with which Anna Göldin, the last witch in Switzerland, was beheaded on June 13, 1782.
