Edith Gloor

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Edith Früh-Gloor (born November 24, 1942 in Schaffhausen ) is a Swiss writer and director .

biography

Edith Gloor's ancestors include Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte , who fathered their son Bonaventur with Maria Anna Schiess from Allensbach in his youth in Arenenberg . Her older brother is the Schaffhausen painter Emanuel Gloor (born January 18, 1937 in Uzwil ).

Gloor initially worked as a copywriter for the consulting company Farner. She is the author of radio plays , theater plays and film scripts . She was president of the Swiss Writers' Association . Gloor uses her own biographical stations in her literary works. She lived in India and South America and at the age of 40 worked as an assistant director and dramaturge in the Swiss theater scene, including at the Zurich Schauspielhaus . Gloor has been married to Peter Früh since 1963, with whom she has the children Meret (* 1975) and Alban (* 1971).

In her book “Holy Shit” (2015) she documents her own recovery process from paraplegia (on July 30, 2010 in her Viennese apartment in the Schwarzspanierhaus ) to “walking upright”. She was treated at the Vienna General Hospital and in the neurological rehabilitation center on Rosenhügel by orthodox doctors .

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Individual evidence

  1. Biography Emanuel Gloor and artist Emanuel Gloor. In: Sikart
  2. The book was presented at Herder in Vienna by means of a reading by Alexander Tschernek .