Psychology Today | 14.06.2026 22:17
With the passing of Eleonore Frankl, née Schwindt, known to so many simply and affectionately as Elly, a life has come to its quiet close that cannot be measured merely by the years between November 6, 1925, and June 10, 2026. For one hundred years she lived in Vienna and from Vienna; yet her presence reached far beyond the city of her birth — not least because, together with her husband, Viktor Frankl, she circled the globe many times in the service of his pioneering work: the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy, known by the double name of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis.
