Eve Pormeister

Eve Pormeister (born 19 April 1956) is an Estonian Germanist, literary scholar, critic and cultural mediator. She taught at the University of Tartu and has also worked at the Tartu City Library.

She is known for scholarship on German-language Swiss literature, including a monograph on the Swiss writers Gertrud Leutenegger and Silja Walter,

Education and academic work Eve Pormeister was born 19 April 1956 in Rapla. She studied German literature at Leipzig University and later completed graduate degrees at the University of Tartu.

Publications and reception

Scholarship on Swiss German-language literature In 2010 Pormeister published the monograph Grenzgängerinnen. Gertrud Leutenegger und die schreibende Nonne Silja Walter aus der Schweiz (Saxa Verlag, Berlin).

Pormeister has also been associated with international German studies collaboration and edited conference publications; for example, she was among the editors of Nationalepen zwischen Fakten und Fiktionen (Humaniora: Germanistica 5, University of Tartu Press, 2011).

Näen, kuulan, tunnetan (2021) In 2021 Pormeister published Näen, kuulan, tunnetan (EKSA), described in Estonian press as her first major Estonian-language book and a collection combining essays and interviews that engage both German-language and contemporary Estonian literature.

The book was reviewed in multiple major Estonian literary venues, including Keel ja Kirjandus,

Selected bibliography Bilder des Weiblichen in der deutschsprachigen Schweizer Frauenliteratur. Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2003.