Eleonore Frey

Eleonore Frey (born October 18, 1939 in Frauenfeld ) is a Swiss literary scholar and writer .

Life

Eleonore Frey is the daughter of the Germanist Emil Staiger . From 1958 to 1966 she studied German , Romance and comparative literature at the University of Zurich and the Sorbonne . In 1966 she received her doctorate with a thesis on Franz Grillparzer ; In 1972 she completed her habilitation . From 1982 to 1997 she worked as adjunct professor for modern German literature at the University of Zurich. In addition to specialist literary publications, she has also published literary texts since the 1980s. The author, who is married to the literary scholar Hans-Jost Frey , now lives in Zurich and Paris .

Eleonore Frey is the author of narrative prose and essays , she also translates from English and French.

Eleonore Frey is a member of the Association of Authors of Switzerland and, since 1999, of the German-speaking Swiss PEN Center . In addition to various grants, she received a work prize from the Swiss Schiller Foundation in 2002 and the Schiller Prize from the Zürcher Kantonalbank in 2007 . Her work On the Road to Okhotsk was honored with one of the Swiss Literature Prizes of the Federal Office of Culture in 2015 .

Grillparzer. Shape and design of the dream . Atlantis, Zurich 1966 (also Diss. Phil. University of Zurich 1966)
Poetics of Transition. To Mörike's poem “Divine Reminiscence”. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1977, ISBN 3-484-10266-7 series: Studies on the history of German literature, 17
Emergency. Narratives . Droschl, Graz 1989, ISBN 3-85420-153-2
Interfaces. Narration . Droschl, Graz 1990, ISBN 3-85420-176-1
Votes against. Narratives . Droschl, Graz 1994, ISBN 3-85420-364-0
The seven-day diary. Narration . Droschl, Graz 1996, ISBN 3-85420-424-8
Childhood for two . Howeg, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-85736-165-4
Lipp goes . Droschl, Graz 1998, ISBN 3-85420-496-5
From overseas. A report . Droschl, Graz 2001, ISBN 3-85420-556-2
The house of rest. Narration . Droschl, Graz 2004, ISBN 3-85420-646-1
Seventeen things. Biography . Droschl, Graz 2006, ISBN 978-3-85420-707-8
Pattern from Hans. A report . Droschl, Graz 2009, ISBN 978-3-85420-749-8
Visiting Franz, in Aris Fioretos Ed .: Babel. For Werner Hamacher . Urs Engeler , Basel 2009 ISBN 3-938767-55-3 . Pp. 162-168
Out of thin air . Novel. Literaturverlag Droschl, Graz 2011. ISBN 978-3-85420-777-1 .
On the way to Okhotsk . Urs Engeler publishing house, Solothurn 2014. ISBN 978-3-906050-07-2 .
Forest people . Engeler, Schupfart 2018. ISBN 978-3-906050-34-8

Henri Frédéric Amiel : day after day . Pendo, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-85842-555-9
Maurice Blanchot : The Lascaux Beast . Kleinheinrich, Münster 1999, ISBN 3-930754-08-8
Lewis Carroll : Diary of a trip to Russia in 1867 . Insel, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-458-34289-3
Henri Michaux : When dreaming about enigmatic images . Kleinheinrich, Münster 1994, ISBN 3-926608-86-2
Henri Michaux: Ideograms in China . Droschl, Graz 1994, ISBN 3-85420-378-0
Henri Michaux: Of languages and scripts . Droschl, Graz 1998, ISBN 3-85420-501-5
José-Flore Tappy : Tamped earth - Terre battue . Howeg, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-85736-171-9

personal data
SURNAME	Frey, Eleanor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Frey-Staiger, Eleonore; Staiger, Eleonore (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss literary scholar and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 18, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frauenfeld , Switzerland