Lore Segal

Lore Segal ( born March 8, 1929 in Vienna) is an American literary scholar, professor and author. It is one of the children who could flee before 1939 the Nazi regime with the help of the Kindertransport.

Life

Lore Segal, born Groszmann, was born in Vienna. She was one of those children who arrive between December 1938 and September 1, 1939 to the UK and could thus escape deportation by the Nazis. The term " Kindertransport " is still connected in the English language with this action.

Lore studied at Bedford College, University of London, where he made in 1948 a degree in English Literature. In 1951, she immigrated after a layover in the Dominican Republic to the United States to New York. 1968-1978 Lore Segal was a professor of English at Columbia University, and later in Princeton, Sarah Lawrence College and at Ohio State University, where she retired in 1996.

Lore Segal also worked as an author, commentator, translator and writer of children's books. She received the Guggenheim Award. Your reviews have been published in the New York Times; their essays in the New Yorker. Your story, The Rervese bug was one of the " Best American Short Stories " and was founded in 1989 with the Prize Stories 1990 - awarded The O. Henry Award.

Lore Segal starred alongside her mother Franzi Groszmann 2000 in the film directed by Mark Jonathan Harris Kindertransport - In a strange world with, which was awarded the Oscar in 2000 as Best Documentary. Her mother Franzi Groszmann was the last survivor of the parents who were behind the Kindertransport; She died 100 years old on September 20, 2005 in Manhattan, NY.

In 1988, she starred in the Strip Crossing Delancey with; The film was awarded a Golden Globe. 1996 Lore Segal played in the documentary My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransport. The film was awarded a prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

Works

  • Your first Americans Fischer, Frankfurt 1996 ISBN 3-596-12834- X
  • With Maurice Sendak: Tales of the Brothers Grimm Diogenes 2000 ISBN 3- 257-00866 -X
  • Where other people live, From the Amerikan. by Sabine Illmer, Autobiography 1938-1945. Picus, Vienna 2003 ISBN 3-426-62089-8
  • The thin layer security Picus, Vienna 2004 ISBN 3-85452-481-1
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