Christiane Singer
Christiane Singer (actually (married) Christiane Thurn-Valsassina ; * 1943 in Marseille ; † April 4, 2007 in Vienna ) was a French writer .
Life
Singer was the younger daughter of Austro-Hungarian, Judeo-Christian parents. From 1961 to 1968 she studied French literature in Aix-en-Provence . She then worked as a lecturer in Basel until 1970 . From 1969 to 1974 she was a visiting lecturer at the University of Friborg . At the end of the 1970s she founded the Dianus-Trikont-Verlag together with the Munich publisher Herbert Röttgen . From 1990 to 1998 Singer was Secretary General of the Austrian Pen Club .
She was a trained therapist in initiatic body therapy according to Karlfried Graf Dürckheim , whose adept she was for many years, and she gave free therapy sessions “for everyone who may come”.
In 1967 Singer married the architect Giorgio / Georg Thurn-Valsassina, whom she had met in Switzerland, and moved to his family home at Burg Rastenberg (also called Schloss Rastenberg ) in the Waldviertel . Together they built a radiesthetically balanced state clearing the castle grounds, the Retreat House The clearing. The marriage of the two had two sons.
On April 4, 2007, Christiane Thurn-Valsassina died of cancer in Vienna.
Publications (selection)
- La mort viennoise; 1975, in German Death in Vienna. List, 1996
- La guerre des filles; 1981
- Les âges de la vie; 1983
- Histoire d´âme; 1988
- Une passion; 1992
- Times of life. From the desire to change. Eugen Diederichs, 2002
- Everything is life. Last fragments of a long journey. Bertelsmann, 2008, ISBN 3570010147
- Where are you going Heaven is in you Edition Avicenna, 2017
Awards
- 1979: Prix des Libraires (French book trade award for La mort viennoise )
- 1988: Prix Albert Camus (French literary prize for Histoire d´âme )
- 1993: Prix des écrivains croyants
- Nomination for the Prix Goncourt (French literary prize)
Web links
- Literature by and about Christiane Singer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Christiane Singer: "Une Passion - Entre ciel et chair". Curriculum vitae on the ProArt Service website , on the occasion of the presentation of the German version of the book "Une Passion" on November 9, 2006 at the Wiener Musikverein
- Obituary in the Wiener Zeitung , April 2007.
- Andreas Kövary: "... there is only life". In: Wiener Zeitung, April 24, 2008.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d See Wiener Zeitung, April 24, 2008.
- ↑ Publishers: Thirst for Myths . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1982, pp. 262 ( online - 4 October 1982 ). Quote: "From Mao to the Dalai Lama, from Che Guevara to the Mother of God - the former Links-Verlag Trikont is on a spiritual trip."
- ↑ See the Subtiles Bauen website of the Thurn-Valsassina architects. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
- ↑ See the list of listed objects in Rastenfeld .
- ↑ Schloss Rastenberg, Waldviertel ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on schamanismus.net. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Singer, Christiane |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thurn-Valsassina, Christiane (real name); Thurn, Christiane |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marseille |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4, 2007 |
| Place of death | Vienna |