Christiane Singer Explained

Christiane Singer, married name Christiane Thurn-Valsassina (23 March 1943, in Marseille – 4 April 2007, in Vienna) was an Austrian writer, essayist and novelist.

Biography

Her father was of Hungarian origin and her mother was half Russian and half Czech. Because of the persecution of the Jews, her parents fled Hungary, then Austria, and settled in Paris, France, in 1935.[1] She was born eight years later, in 1943, in Marseille.

She attended high school and the Conservatory of Theatre and Dramatic Arts in Marseille and then went on to study literature at the University of Aix-en-Provence, where she obtained a Doctorate of Modern Literature.[2]

In 1968, she met Count Georg von Thurn-Valsassina,[2] an architect, who would become her husband, and settled in 1973[1] in his medieval castle of Rastenberg (Austria), not far from Vienna. There she raised their two sons. This castle inspired the poetical essay of the same name in 1996, "Rastenberg". She also organized personal development seminars in her home, which she designed, and which her architect husband built.[2]

She followed the teachings of Karlfried Graf Dürckheim (a disciple of C.G. Jung). In Switzerland, she was a lecturer at the University of Basel, then a lecturer at the University of Friburg.

Her work and her personal reflection were entirely centered on the necessary taking into account of the spiritual which lives in everyone's heart. She was a relatively prolific writer, of Christian sensitivity imbued with Oriental wisdom, who refrained from giving lessons in morals and excluded all dogmatism. She won several literary prizes, including the Prix des libraires for La Mort viennoise in 1979, le Prix Albert Camus for Histoire d'âme in 1989, and le prix de la langue française en 2006 for the whole of her work.

She once said in a radio-interview:

In September 2006, when doctors announced that she had six months left to live[3] as a result of cancer, she wrote a diary in her last months, which was published under the title Derniers fragments d'un long voyage.

Distinctions

Documentary

In 2011, the documentary film Passion - Hommage à Christiane Singer, by Austrian filmmaker Carola Mair, was released.[4]

Work

Novels

Essays

Collective

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.albin-michel.fr/auteur-Christiane-Singer-11193 Biographie, on the site of her publisher, Éditions Albin Michel.
  2. http://blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/carnets-deurope/article/011013/passion-hommage-christiane-singer-ecrivain-marseillais-de-dimension-europeenne-par-m Article de Monique Beltrame, sur le site de Mediapart.
  3. http://www.albin-michel.fr/Derniers-Fragments-d-un-long-voyage-EAN=9782226179555 Présentation du livre Derniers fragments d'un long voyage, sur le site of publisher, Albin Michel
  4. Web site: Page de présentation du documentaire, sur le site du producteur. . 2017-02-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140201232349/http://www.caromax.at/christianesinger/fr_index.html . 2014-02-01 . dead .
  5. http://www.academie-francaise.fr/christiane-singer Ses deux prix de l'Académie Française, sur le site officiel.
  6. Web site: Lauréats du prix ALEF, sur le site Prix-littéraires.net . 2017-02-07 . 2017-02-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170208034511/http://www.prix-litteraires.net/prix/1157,prix-alef-des-librairies-mieux-etre-et-spiritualite.html . dead .

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