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]

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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