Judith Herzberg

Judith Herzberg ( * November 4, 1934 in Amsterdam; native Judith Frieda Lina Herzberg ) is a Dutch writer, poet and playwright.

Life

The daughter of writer and lawyer Jacob Abel Herzberg and his wife Thea Loeb Herzberg survived the persecution of the Jews during the German occupation in non-Jewish foster parents in the country. Their first work appeared in 1961 in the Dutch weekly Vrij Nederland magazine. In 1963 she published her first volume of poetry with Zeepost, the others followed.

In 1972, her first play The door was open. She also wrote screenplays for films that particularly in 1981 Charlotte S. was observed over the fate of the Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon. She was awarded the Bavarian Film Prize.

Several of her works deal with the subject of the Holocaust, including Leah's wedding, which is in 83 individual scenes of the fate of Holocaust survivors. Herzberg taught as a lecturer at the film school in Amsterdam and Jerusalem. She also wrote some pieces for children and translated works of Euripides, August Strindberg, Ernst Jandl and Maxim Gorky.

Herzberg lives in Amsterdam and Jerusalem, and is frequently invited to participate politically. She published in 2006 a protest poem about Taida Pasic, the girl from Kosovo, which was designated in April 2006 from the Netherlands.

Publications (selection)

Screenplays

Awards

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