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.[https://www.albin-michel.fr/auteur-Christiane-Singer-11193 Biographie, on the site of her publisher, Éditions Albin Michel. 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.Article de Monique Beltrame, sur le site de Mediapart.
In 1968, she met Count Georg von Thurn-Valsassina, an architect, who would become her husband, and settled in 1973 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.
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 livePrésentation du livre Derniers fragments d'un long voyage, sur le site of publisher, Albin Michel 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 1979: Prix des libraires for La Mort viennoise. 1982: Prix Alice-Louis Barthou de l'Académie française for La Guerre des filles. 1989: Prix Albert Camus for Histoire d'âme. 1993: Prix Écritures & Spiritualités for Une passion. Entre ciel et terre. 2000: Prix Anna de Noailles of the Académie française for Éloge du mariage, de l'engagement et autres folies. 2006: Prix de la langue française for her body of work. 2007: Prix ALEF for Seul ce qui brûle.
Documentary In 2011, the documentary film Passion - Hommage à Christiane Singer, by Austrian filmmaker Carola Mair, was released.
Work Novels 1965: Les Cahiers d'une hypocrite, Albin Michel 1965: Vie et mort du beau Frou, Albin Michel 1976: Chronique tendre des jours amers, Albin Michel 1978: La Mort viennoise, Albin Michel, prix des libraires 1979 1981: La Guerre des filles, Albin Michel, prix Alice-Louis Barthou of the Académie française.Ses deux prix de l'Académie Française, sur le site officiel. 1982 1981: Histoire d'âme, Albin Michel, reissued 2001 prix Albert Camus 1989 1996: Rastenberg, Albin Michel 2002: Les Sept Nuits de la reine, Albin Michel 2006: Seul ce qui brûle, Albin Michel, Prix ALEF 2007.
Essays 1983: Les Âges de la vie, Albin Michel 1992: Une passion. Entre ciel et chair, Albin Michel, 1993. 1996: Du bon usage des crises, Albin Michel 2000: Éloge du mariage, de l'engagement et autres folies, Albin Michel (prix Anna de Noailles de l'Académie française. 2001: Où cours-tu, Ne sais-tu pas que le ciel est en toi ?, Albin Michel 2005: N'oublie pas les chevaux écumants du passé, Albin Michel 2007: Derniers fragments d'un long voyage, Albin Michel, essay / narrative / diary
Collective 2000: La Quête du sens, collectif, Albin Michel, reissued 2004 with Khaled cheikh Bentounès, Marie de Hennezel, , Stan Rougier 2002: Le Grand Livre de la tendresse, Albin Michel,, collective, under the direction of Gérald Pagès, with participations by Boris Cyrulnik, Marie de Hennezel, Dr. Gérard Leleu, Jean-pierre Relier, Stan Rougier, Dr. Michèle Salamagne, Jacques Salomé, , Christiane Singer
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