Bolette Sutermeister Petri

Bolette-Merete Sutermeister Petri (October 23, 1920 – 2018) was a Danish-Swiss writer of travel literature, considered as ″expert for the High North".[1] [2]

Biography

Petri Sutermeister was born in October 1920 in Kriens, Switzerland. Her mother was Danish and her father was the owner of a pasta producer in Lucerne; she spent her first eight years of life in the ″villa Bleiche″ in Kriens; then she lived with her family in Lucerne; In 1935 she moved with her mother after her divorce to Copenhagen.[1] At sixteen, she first traveled to Spitsbergen.[1]

She worked as a translator in Copenhagen and made archeological studies and expeditions to Greenland, Lapland and Spitsbergen. In Longyearbyen, she created in the former coal mine of John Munroe Longyear a museum ″with facts about Svalbard″.[3] Until 1992, she spent each summer, from May to September in Spitsbergen.[1]

Petri Sutermeister's books consist of stories that usually contain a trip /travel, for example, in a train or on a plane, containing and focus on landscape descriptions. Her most famous work is Eisblumen: Encounters on Spitsbergen. She died in 2018 at the age of 97.[4]

gollark: I think Opus has that *too*, though.
gollark: Also a few minor things dealing with peripherals.
gollark: In mildly incompatible ways, even.
gollark: I have stuff like "read file to string", "write string to file", "recursively copy table", "map over table", "read URL to string", "convert byte table to hex", and "split string" duplicated all over the place.
gollark: I've been meaning to make a useful utility library but never got to it.

References
  1. cf. (Kürzel) (10 May 1995), "Das Licht, die Intensität der Farben, die Weitsicht: Die gebürtige Krienserin Bolette Petri-Sutermeister schreibt Bücher über den hohen Norden – heute liest sie in Kriens", Luzerner Neuste Nachrichten (in German)
  2. "Krogsgaard". Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  3. Astrid Feltes-Peter; Anja CarstanjenSchroth (2005), Norwegen (in German), Baedeker, p. 355, ISBN 3-8297-1065-8
  4. Bolette Merete Petri-Sutermeister death notice


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