Syra - Die Stripperin

The novel tells the story of the unique career of the first Swiss glamour girl. Josefina Magdalena Marty was born in 1921 in the older inn Rigi-Dächli. The vivacious girl met the artist Billy Frick in Zurich, lived with him in partnership, and became an internationally sought-after dancer and a famous photographic model under the stage name Syra. She appeared in American and European films and was celebrated in the 1940s and 1950s as one of the most beautiful women in the world. With her erotic and burlesque dance show, she traveled around the globe. She passed away at the age of 91 in Florida in 2011. Roger Bürgler has filmed her extraordinary life and captured it on a DVD. Now, she has found an outstanding biographer in Margrit Schriber. This novel about an exceptional stripper can be read in one sitting.

Author: Margrit Schriber
202 pages, paperback
ISBN 978-3-905927-30-6
Published in 2012.