Anna Goeldin – The Last Witch
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Anna Göldin -- The Last Witch is a novel by Swiss writer Eveline Hasler, first published in German in 1982.[1] It imagines the life of Anna Göldi (Göldin in the contemporary spelling, indicating the female gender in the name) who was executed by decapitation in 1782 in Glarus, Switzerland. Göldin has been called "the last witch" (of German-speaking countries). The trial records which research has shown as changed and rewritten, avoided the word for witch, but the trials was conducted with the characteristics of a witchcraft trial. In her afterword, Hasler summarizes the "unexpected publicity" of the trial. The term "judicial murder" was coined by the historian August Ludwig Schlözer in connection with the trial.[2] The novel was adapted into a feature film with the same title, Anna Göldin -- Letzte Hexe by Swiss filmmaker Gertrud Pinkus in 1991.
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