Andreas Pritzker

Andreas Pritzker (born December 4, 1945 in Windisch AG ) is a Swiss physicist who works as a writer and publicist .

Life

Andreas Pritzker completed a degree in physics at the ETH Zurich with a doctorate . He worked as a researcher and consulting engineer in industry and in various functions within the ETH Domain : in the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research (SIN), on the staff of the ETH Board, as head of administration, then of logistics at the Paul Scherrer Institute ( PSI).

In 1990, the Benziger Verlag published his first book with the novel Filbert's Doom .

Andreas Pritzker is a member of the Swiss Writers' Association (AdS) and the German-Swiss PEN Center . He lives as a freelance writer and journalist in Küttigen , Aargau , and until 2015 was a partner in the munda publishing house, which is dedicated to “fiction, biographies and storytelling”.

In 1970 he married the historian Marthi Pritzker-Ehrlich ; she died in 1998. The Pritzker-Ehrlich family archive jointly managed by the couple is in the holdings of the Archives for Contemporary History at ETH Zurich. After the death of his wife, Pritzker took care of the publication of her posthumous works.

He has been married to the crime novelist Ursula Reist since 2003. As a physicist, Andreas Pritzker pleaded at Energy Summit 17 for a relaxation of the tension on nuclear energy.

Works

Scientific papers

• Andreas Pritzker, Walter Hälg, Kurt Dressler: State variables of a heavy plasma as a function of temperature and density. Journal for applied mathematics and physics ZAMP, 1971, Vol. 22, Issue 1, pp. 54-61, doi: 10.1007 / BF01624052
• Andreas Pritzker: Group cross-sections for thermal radiation in a uranium plasma. Dissertation ETH Zurich, 1975, doi: 10.3929 / ethz-a-000085423
• Andreas Pritzker, Kurt Dressler, Walter Hälg: Opacities of high temperature uranium plasmas. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Vol. 15, Issue 12, 1975, pp. 1131-1136, doi: 10.1016 / 0022-4073 (75) 90046-1
• Andreas Pritzker, Jürg Gassmann: Application of Simplified Reliability Methods for Risk Assessment of Nuclear Waste Repositories. Nuclear Technology , 1980, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 289-297
• Andreas Pritzker, Walter Hälg: Radiation dynamics of a nuclear explosion. Journal for applied mathematics and physics ZAMP, 1981, Vol. 32, Issue 1, pp. 1-11, doi: 10.1007 / BF00953545

Prose works and non-fiction books

• Filbert's doom . Novel. Benziger , Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-545-36484-4 ; New edition: munda, Brugg 2001, ISBN 3-9522275-0-1
• The end of the deception . Novel. Frieling , Berlin 1993; New edition: munda, Brugg 2004, ISBN 3-9522275-4-4
• Time collected . Narrative. munda, Brugg, 2001, ISBN 3-9522275-1-X
• Inspection in Eydtkuhnen. Short story. In: Claudia Christophersen and Ursula Hudson-Wiedenmann (eds.): Romanticism and Exile: Festschrift for Konrad Feilchenfeldt. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2004, pp. 350–354, ISBN 3-8260-2673-X
• The Challenges of Juan Zinniker . Novel. munda, Brugg 2008, ISBN 3-9523161-2-1
• Everywhere lies and deceit . Novel. munda, Brugg 2010, ISBN 978-3-9523161-7-7
• History of the SIN . Story told. munda, Brugg 2013, ISBN 978-3-905993-10-3 , review by the Swiss Physical Society
• Nuclear disposal in Switzerland 1945-2006: From the beginnings to the disposal certificate , NZZ Libro , 2014, ISBN 978-3-03823-890-4 (together with Jörg Hadermann, Hans Issler and Auguste Zurkinden), review ( Memento from 5 July 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at TEC21 , review at CulturMag
• Fallen out of time . Story from the future. BoD, Norderstedt 2015, ISBN 978-3-7347-6985-6
• Drive off. Novel. BoD, Norderstedt 2016, ISBN 978-3-8423-5584-2
• Nondescript. Novel. BoD, Norderstedt 2017, ISBN 978-3-7448-9054-0
• The other. Novel. BoD, Norderstedt 2019, ISBN 978-3-7494-4614-8

Journalism

• My anti-Semitic summer 2014. In: Zwischenwelt . Theodor Kramer Society , No. 1, April 2015, Volume 32, p. 23
• Electricity shortage and lack of common ground . together with Jean-Pierre Blaser . In: Swiss month . Issue 1017, June 2014
• Energy policy, where is the voice of the physicists? together with Jean-Pierre Blaser . Swiss Physical Society , September 2014

Editing

• Marthi Pritzker-Ehrlich : Swiss executioner candidates 1938/39 . Documentation. Lang , Bern 1999, ISBN 3-906763-27-7
• 1/3 technology, 1/3 politics, 1/3 psychology: 20 years of REFUNA AG . Together with Max Graf and Karl Heinz Handl. munda, Brugg 2004, ISBN 978-3-9522275-3-4
• Marthi Pritzker-Ehrlich: Disturbed bourgeoisie. Evidence of a Judeo-Christian family in letters, documents and pictures . With a foreword by Heiko Haumann . munda, Brugg 2007
  • Volume 1: 1802 to 1937 , ISBN 3-9523161-0-5
  • Volume 2: 1938 to 1948 , ISBN 3-9523161-1-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Pritzker in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Andreas Pritzker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Brief portrait of the author
• Entry about Andreas Pritzker in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Holdings NL Pritzker-Ehrlich in the archive for contemporary history of the ETH Zurich
2. ↑ ^{a b} See the review by Michael Kühntopf : Dasein einer Judeo-Christian Familie from 1802 to 1948 . In: Swiss monthly books . Vol. 89, May / June 2009, No. 969, p. 53