Silvia Tennenbaum

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Silvia Tennenbaum (2012) in Frankfurt am Main

Silvia Tennenbaum (born March 10, 1928 in Frankfurt am Main , † June 27, 2016 in Haverford , Pennsylvania ) was an American writer .

Life

Silvia Tennenbaum was the daughter of Erich Pfeiffer-Belli and his wife Charlotte Stern . She grew up in the upper class Jewish milieu of her hometown Frankfurt. Your grandmother Maria Stern geb. Hirsch was a sister of Paul Hirsch and Robert von Hirsch . Through her grandfather Richard Stern she was related to Otto Frank , the father of Anne Frank .

After her parents divorced, her mother married the conductor Hans Wilhelm Steinberg . With family emigrated Tennenbaum 1936 in the Switzerland and in 1938 to New Jersey in the United States. After the war she married a rabbi there and had three sons with him. She studied art history at Columbia University and worked as an art critic. Her first novel The Rabbi's Wife was published in 1978, followed by Yesterday's Streets in 1983 . According to her German publisher, there is a third novel in the manuscript, but Tennenbaum was not entirely satisfied with it; whether it will be published is uncertain.

In her books, Silvia Tennenbaum created “a Frankfurt from a distance”. Since 1983 she has been visiting her native Frankfurt am Main regularly. From April 16 to 29, 2012, as part of the reading festival Frankfurt reads, a book from her novel “Streets of Yesterday” was read at over 70 events and in some cases also discussed with the author personally. In spring 2012, Silvia Tennenbaum received the Goethe badge from the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art .

Works

  • Rachel: The Rabbi's Wife . William Morrow and Company, New York 1978.
    • Rachel, the rabbi's wife . Translated from the English by Claudia Campisi. Aviva Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-932338-45-8 .
  • Yesterday's Streets . Random House, New York 1981.
    • Yesterday's streets . Translated from the English by Ulla de Herrera. Knaus, Hamburg 1983, ISBN 978-3-89561-486-6 .

Web links

Commons : Silvia Tennenbaum  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kathrin Massar:  Paul Hirsch in the dictionary of persecuted musicians of the Nazi era (LexM)
  2. ↑ Silvia Tennenbaum , death report on buchmarkt.de, June 28, 2016, accessed on June 28, 2016
  3. ↑ Claus Jürgen Göpfert: Obituary Silvia Tennenbaum. In: fr-online.de. June 28, 2016. Retrieved June 28, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Pfeiffer-Belli, Erich. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  5. ↑ Lily E. Hirsch, Sophie Fetthauer:  William Steinberg in the dictionary of persecuted musicians of the Nazi era (LexM)
  6. ↑ Andreas Dickerboom: Silvia Tennenbaum "Streets of Yesterday". ( Memento from August 13, 2013 in the archive.today web archive ) on: hr-online.de , March 1, 2012.
  7. ↑ Florian Balke: Paths of Remembrance. On the death of the American writer Silvia Tennenbaum . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 29, 2016, p. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Tennenbaum, Silvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 2016
Place of death Haverford, Pennsylvania