Ilse Grubrich-Simitis

Ilse Grubrich-Simitis (22 February 1936 – 8 August 2024) was a German psychoanalyst. She worked in private practice and as a training analyst at the Frankfurt Psychoanalytical Institute.

Biography

Ilse Grubrich-Simitis was born on 22 February 1936. She married the lawyer and data-protection expert Spiros Simitis on 3 August 1963. Grubrich-Simitis died on 8 August 2024, at the age of 88.

Freud

Grubrich-Simitis worked for several decades as an academic researcher. The focus of her work was Sigmund Freud, on whom she published several substantial volumes, contributing to a sharpened appreciation of Freud's written work. Since the 1960s she worked for S. Fischer Verlag on the publisher's ten volume compilation of Freud's works and letters, initially as a publishing-editor and more recently with overall responsibility for the project. Recently she was also a co-editor of the publisher's Yearbook of Psychoanalysis.

Awards and honours

• 1998 Sigmund Freud Prize for Academic prose
• 1998 Mary S. Sigourney Award

Output (selection)

• Sigmund Freud: Werkausgabe in zwei Bänden. Band 1: Elemente der Psychoanalyse. Band 2: Anwendungen der Psychoanalyse. Hrsg. und komm. von Anna Freud und Ilse Grubrich-Simitis. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-596-17216-0.
• Michelangelos Moses und Freuds „Wagstück“. Eine Collage. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-10-074400-4.
• Hundert Jahre „Traumdeutung“ von Sigmund Freud. Gemeinsam mit Mark Solms und Jean Starobinski. Fischer-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2000.
• Urbuch der Psychoanalyse : hundert Jahre Studien über Hysterie von Josef Breuer und Sigmund Freud. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-10-007903-5.