Bolette Petri-Sutermeister

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Bolette Petri-Sutermeister (born October 23, 1920 in Kriens ; † before April 5, 2018 ) was a Danish - Swiss writer of travel literature who is "an expert on the far north ".

Life

Petri-Sutermeister's mother was Danish , her father was the owner of the AG Lucerne pasta factory ; She spent the first eight years of her life in the Villa Bleiche in Kriens; afterwards she lived with her family in Lucerne ; In 1935 she moved to Copenhagen with her mother after their divorce . She traveled to Spitsbergen for the first time when she was sixteen .

She became a translator in Copenhagen and made archaeological and study expeditions to Greenland , Lapland and Svalbard. In Longyearbyen she set up a museum "with interesting facts about Svalbard" in the former coal mine of John Munroe Longyear . Until 1992 she spent the months May to September on Svalbard.

Petri-Sutermeister's books consist of stories that usually involve a journey , e.g. B. on the train or in the plane, have to the content and concentrate on landscape descriptions . Her best-known work was Eisblumen: Encounters on Svalbard .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary , accessed on May 1, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c d cf. (abbreviation): The light, the intensity of the colors, the foresight: Bolette Petri-Sutermeister, who was born in Kriens, writes books about the far north - today she reads in Kriens . In: Lucerne latest news . May 10, 1995.
  3. ^ Astrid Feltes-Peter, Anja CarstanjenSchroth: Norway . Baedeker , 2005, ISBN 3-8297-1065-8 , pp. 355 .
personal data
SURNAME Petri-Sutermeister, Bolette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish-Swiss writer (travel literature)
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Kriens
DATE OF DEATH 5th April 2018