Tracy Splinter

Tracy Splinter (born October 28, 1971 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a German-South African writer and spoken-word author who mysteriously disappeared in August 2016 in Switzerland. She acquired German citizenship in 1997. Her works were in English, German and Afrikaans.[1][2][3]

Biography

Last seen at the Alpina and Schnider hotels, Tracy 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, her whereabout is still not known.[2][4]

In 1999, Tracy stood for Hamburg in the German-speaking slam poetry championship in Weimar, Germany. She made it to the finals and won the competition which took place in two nights.[5]

She provide 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".[6]

gollark: Ah, *here* is the issue!
gollark: ```luaskynet.log()[1].message```is, right now, `wumbology`.
gollark: That should also not happen.
gollark: ... it shouldn't be?
gollark: That's not the message.

See also

References
  1. "All Star Slam Tour 2001". www.epibreren.com. Retrieved 2017-11-28.
  2. www.20min.ch, www.20minuten.ch, 20 Minuten, 20 Min. "Wer hat Tracy Splinter gesehen?". 20 Minuten. Retrieved 2017-11-28.
  3. Michelone, Guido (2014-05-16). Musica e media: Suoni moderni e comunicazioni sociali (in Italian). EDUCatt - Ente per il diritto allo studio universitario dell'Università Cattolica. ISBN 9788867802968.
  4. MediaTI. "È mistero sulla scomparsa di Tracey Splinter - Ticinonews". www.ticinonews.ch (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-11-28.
  5. Smith, Marc Kelly (2004). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Slam Poetry. Alpha Books. ISBN 9781592572465.
  6. Klepper, Martin; Schöpp, Joseph C. (2001). Transatlantic Modernism. C. Winter. ISBN 9783825312213.
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