Selma Urfer
Urfer Selma ( Selma Graf, born March 30, 1928 in Bern, † May 2, 2013 in Munich) was a Swiss- German author, translator and actress.
Life
She graduated from the Zurich drama school in 1948. Besides her acting work in theaters and on television, she wrote numerous short stories and two novels. She joined in 1970 the Writers' Union group in Olten. Urfer was with the German actor Robert Graf (1923-1966) married, has three children, including the German film director Dominik Graf. She lived in Munich.
Awards
Urfer received several awards and honors, including:
Works (selection)
- ( Post ) A people wrote stories. Huber, Frauenfeld 1984, ISBN 3-85569-034-0.
- At that time. There. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-570-07874-4.
- Sketches from Grandson. Les Éditions d' Autrefois, Grandson in 1988.
- Love in Coppet. A memory of Madame de Staël. Nymphenburg, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-485-00646-7.
- The brown polar bear. Swiss youth written work, Einsiedeln, 2005.
- Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Translation into German from the novel The Little White Bird ( 1902) by James Matthew Barrie, English and German texts in parallel, with notes and epilogue. Scaneg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-89235-120-7.