Bührle File: Forced Labor in the Spinning Mill (Swiss Press Text 2022, by Yves Demuth)

Bührle File: Forced Labor in the Spinning Mill

Beobachter

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2022

Yves Demuth

Cover story in Beobacher. The opening of a four-part series on the Bührle Corporation's involvement in the economic exploitation of "administratively supported" individuals. A contemporary witness recounts her experiences as an underage girl, which Beobacher supports with extensive archival research. The context is the opening of the Bührle exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zürich.

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Yves Demuth / Swiss Press Award

Yves Demuth

Journalist, Zürich, 1981

1981 in Baden geboren, in Fribourg und Bern Zeitgeschichte, Volkswirtschaft und Politologie studiert. Ab 2005 Praktika und freier Mitarbeiter bei Solothurner Tagblatt und Aargauer Zeitung. 2007 Start als Wirtschaftsjournalist im Gründungsteam der «Schweiz am Sonntag» von CH Media, 2012 folgte das Konsumentenmagazin «Saldo», 2017 der «Beobachter».

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Bührle File: Forced Labor in the Spinning Mill (Swiss Press Text 2022, by Yves Demuth) - Swiss Press Award