Brigitte Schwaiger

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Brigitte Schwaiger


Born
in Freistadt, Austria
April 06, 1949

Died
July 26, 2010

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Brigitte Schwaiger was an Austrian author.

She was the daughter of a doctor, while her great grandmother was Carola Seligmann, an opera singer who died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Schwaiger studied two semesters of Psychology, Germanic and Romance linguistics in Vienna. In 1968, she married a Spanish Officer, and moved with him to Madrid and then Mallorca before divorcing him four years later. She then attended the Pedagogic Academy in Linz, where she played part-time in cellar theatres and worked as a production assistant at ORF (Österreichischer Rundfunk - Austrian Broadcasting).

Her first novel, Wie kommt das Salz ins Meer? (1977) (How does the Salt get in the Sea?) became a sensational bestseller which sold several hundred th
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Average rating: 3.6 · 380 ratings · 27 reviews · 30 distinct worksSimilar authors
Wie kommt das Salz ins Meer

3.63 avg rating — 303 ratings — published 1977 — 23 editions
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Fallen lassen

4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions
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Lange Abwesenheit.

3.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1980 — 5 editions
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Wenn Gott tot ist: Memoiren

4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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Mein spanisches Dorf

2.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions
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Der rote Faden

3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions
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Malstunde

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3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1980 — 2 editions
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Ein langer Urlaub

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
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Der Himmel ist süß. Eine Be...

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions
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Liebesversuche

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1989
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