Tracy Splinter | |
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Born | Tracy Fredericka Splinter 28 October 1971 |
Disappeared | August 2016 (aged 44) Graubünden, Eastern Switzerland |
Status | Missing for 7 years and 8 or 9 months |
Occupation(s) | Writer, author |
Known for | winning a poetry competition championship |
Tracy Splinter (born 28 October 1971 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a German-South African writer and spoken-word author who mysteriously disappeared in August 2016 in Switzerland. Splinter had acquired German citizenship in 1997. Her works were in English, German and Afrikaans. [1] [2] [3]
In 1999, Tracy Splinter stood for Hamburg in the German-speaking slam poetry championship in Weimar, Germany. Splinter made it to the finals and won the competition which took place in two nights. [4]
Splinter provided technical language guidance toward the publication of the book "Transatlantic Modernism" in 2009, a literary criticism of "Modernism in Europe and modernism in the United States". [5]
Last seen at the Alpina and Schnider hotels, Splinter went missing in August 2016 in Vals, Graubünden in Eastern Switzerland. Her luggage containing her personal belongings including "suitcase with clothes, a backpack, a laptop, a camera, mountain sticks and several personal documents" were found intact at her hotel room with no presence of herself. After a year with no news of her whereabouts her parents hired a private investigator to find her. As of September 2017 [update], her whereabouts are still not known. [2] [6]
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Tracy Splinter | |
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Born | Tracy Fredericka Splinter 28 October 1971 |
Disappeared | August 2016 (aged 44) Graubünden, Eastern Switzerland |
Status | Missing for 7 years and 8 or 9 months |
Occupation(s) | Writer, author |
Known for | winning a poetry competition championship |
Tracy Splinter (born 28 October 1971 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a German-South African writer and spoken-word author who mysteriously disappeared in August 2016 in Switzerland. Splinter had acquired German citizenship in 1997. Her works were in English, German and Afrikaans. [1] [2] [3]
In 1999, Tracy Splinter stood for Hamburg in the German-speaking slam poetry championship in Weimar, Germany. Splinter made it to the finals and won the competition which took place in two nights. [4]
Splinter provided technical language guidance toward the publication of the book "Transatlantic Modernism" in 2009, a literary criticism of "Modernism in Europe and modernism in the United States". [5]
Last seen at the Alpina and Schnider hotels, Splinter went missing in August 2016 in Vals, Graubünden in Eastern Switzerland. Her luggage containing her personal belongings including "suitcase with clothes, a backpack, a laptop, a camera, mountain sticks and several personal documents" were found intact at her hotel room with no presence of herself. After a year with no news of her whereabouts her parents hired a private investigator to find her. As of September 2017 [update], her whereabouts are still not known. [2] [6]
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