Dr Erich Keller

Erich Keller is an Associate Researcher at UniDistance Suisse. He studied General History as well as Social and Economic History at the University of Zurich. He currently works as an independent historian and journalist. His research focuses on Switzerland during the National Socialist period, antisemitism, Nazi “euthanasia,” and the history of violence in twentieth-century Europe.
Among his publications is Das kontaminierte Museum. Das Kunsthaus Zürich und die Sammlung Bührle, published in 2021. A French translation, Le musée contaminé, appeared in Lausanne in 2026.
Between 2022 and 2023, he served as a member of the Round Table established by the City of Zurich to evaluate the Bührle Collection.
From 2018 to 2020, he was Senior Research Associate at the University of Zurich, where he worked on a research project examining the historical context of the Bührle Collection.
His doctoral dissertation, Bürger und Juden. Die Familie Wyler-Bloch in Zürich 1880-1954. Biografie als Erinnerungsraum, was published in 2014 in the publication series of the Archive for Contemporary History at ETH Zurich.