Monika Burri

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Monika Burri (* 1970 in Aarau ) is a Swiss historian , journalist and author .

Live and act

Monika Burri completed the Matura type B in 1990 at the old canton school in Aarau . From 1991 she studied general history and philosophy at the University of Zurich and finished her studies with a thesis on mountain railway construction, tourism industry and civil enjoyment of nature at the end of the 19th century. The Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn as a prototype of the tourist rack railway.

From 1998 to 2011 she was a research assistant at the professorship for the history of technology at ETH Zurich . In 2011 she started the Bodywear study . The history of jersey clothing 1850-2000 doctorate . Burri was a research assistant in archive, research and communication projects at the Aargau State Archives (2011–2015) and then at the Lucerne School of Art and Design (until 2019).

From 1998 she published numerous articles and reviews as a freelance journalist for the Zürcher Tages-Anzeiger and the NZZ am Sonntag, among others, and works as an author and editor, in particular on the focus on cultural, technical and corporate history.

Publications (selection)

  • with Sabine von Fischer: Halter 1918–2018. The Halter family business over three generations. Halter AG, Zurich
  • The bike. Trailblazer or model overrun? A footnote on the technical history of the automobile. Preprints on the cultural history of technology 1998/5.
  • as ed. with David Gugerli , Kilian Elsasser: Die Internationalität der Eisenbahn 1850–1970. Interferences 7 - Studies on the cultural history of technology. Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-0340-0648-9 .
  • as ed. with Andrea Westermann: ETHistory 1855–2005. Sightseeing through 150 years of ETH Zurich. here + now publishing house, Baden 2005, ISBN 3-03919-016-4 .
  • The world in pocket size. The Adolf Feller postcard collection. Scheidegger & Spiess Verlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-85881-339-8 .
  • Bodywear. History of jersey clothing 1850–2000. Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-0340-1132-7 .
  • Research in focus. Science photographs from the image archive of the ETH Library. Image worlds 3 - photographs from the image archive of the ETH Library. Scheidegger & Spiess Verlag, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-85881-395-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts: Burri Monika. Accessed December 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Burri, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian, journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Aarau