Dominique Rinderknecht

Dominique Rinderknecht (* July 14, 1989 ) is a Swiss beauty queen, who was elected on 8 June 2013 Miss Switzerland.

Life

Dominique Rinderknecht has a younger sister and a younger half-sister. Her mother and her grandmother had previously worked as models. Former BMX pro and four-cross champion Roger Rinderknecht is her cousin. After their schooling Rinderknecht completed a short internship at the Avenir Suisse, where he was followed by two years as part-time employees. In addition, she works part-time since the age of 15 at the ArchStudio Architekten AG in the field of Accounting & PR. From 2010 until her bachelor's degree in journalism in 2013, she studied at the University of Zurich Journalism and Communication.

Rinderknecht indicates hobbies as sailing, sports, and their dog. She lives in Zurich.

The Miss Switzerland 2013

Rinderknecht is the first Miss Switzerland, who won the title in a new, inspired by the casting show Germany's Next Top Model method. After the 2011 election, the Miss Switzerland election from the broadcasting program of the Swiss Television ( SF) had been deleted.

The election of 2012 was also due to lack of sponsors failed, which is why the Miss Switzerland 2011 Alina Buchschacher officiated for 21 months. The first election under the new procedure in 2013 was broadcast by private TV station Sat1 ( Switzerland ) for the first time.

The Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ ), according to the heads of the Swiss pageant now tried that before, " slightly outdated choice " to make again a media event. In contrast to the earlier conventional method, it was also to win some special prizes. So Dominique Rinderknecht brought to training camp the title of "Miss Brain " for their general knowledge.

Dominique Rinderknecht is the first Miss Switzerland with short haircut.

Reception

After Missen and candidates had disgraced from previous years in Switzerland specific questions literally, the NZZ commented on the choice of Rinderknecht for "Miss Brain " in something ironic tone, that it certainly was not a problem for the journalism student and aspiring Baccalaurea Dominique Rinderknecht, the Matterhorn and the Houses of Parliament to recognize.

Sunday headlined with a view for a pageant rather unusual statements Rinderknecht and sees them as the embodiment of modern Switzerland.

The cultural scientist Ralf Junker Jürgen speaks of a slight provocation that do Rinderknecht for a large audience of interest. It corresponds to the ideal of beauty and signaling at the same time self-determination and be as an exciting mix of adaptation and deviation. Rinderknecht Short Hair type fit into the picture here. The hairstyle was in vogue in the 1980s already, not coincidentally, during the second wave of feminism. In the 1980s there was a wave of actresses with short hair or shaved women in science fiction productions such as Sigourney Weaver, Brigitte Nielsen, Grace Jones or later Demi Moore in " GI Jane, " all of which were tied to more martial roles and are to be understood in the context of female independence. They then went out of fashion and can now be used innovatively again. Today, the hairstyle is not specifically an expression of feminism but of modernity.