Sonia Pilcer

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Sonia Hanna Pilcer (born February 3, 1949 in Augsburg ) is an American writer.

Life

Sonia Pilcer is the child of Polish Holocaust survivors from Łódź who found shelter in a camp for displaced persons in Landsberg after the Second World War . She grew up in 1950 in the New York districts of Lower East Side , Brooklyn , Washington Heights and Queens . Her novel The Last Hotel revolves around the hotel business that her father ran in the 1970s on the Upper West Side . Her two siblings were born in the United States. In her family, the family history was remembered in fragments.

She began studying painting at the High School of Music & Art and then switched to studying literature at Queens College, City University of New York , from which she graduated with a BA. Since then she has been writing for various newspapers and magazines and working for the radio. Her first novel, Teen Angel , was published in 1978, and the film adaptation, for which she wrote the script with Garry Marshall , was repeatedly postponed. Then published with Maiden Rites a novel about the life of a college student. Her city monologues I-Land: Manhattan Monologues were also dramatized by her for an off-theater production that ran for several years.

With her stories and poems in The Holocaust Kid , she addressed the children of Holocaust survivors. After she apostrophized this generation as "2G" ("Second Holocaust Generation") in a magazine article in 1987, she is considered the creator of the term, referring to the first article on the subject by Helen Epstein (1977). For a long time she couldn't find a publisher for the book; the critics accused her of assuming a topic that belonged to her parents' generation. She also formed the material for a theater evening, which was staged several times in the independent theater scene in New York. She was invited as a poet in 1974 as part of the conference Auschwitz: beginning of a new era? : Reflections on the holocaust in the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine to recite her poems Your Hair , Refugees and My Mother's Father's Cigarette Case , how the poetry reading went down in the annex of the conference, she describes in one of the stories about her alter ego "Zosha Palovsky" in the Holocaust child .

Pilcer is married, lives in New York State and downtown with one son.

Works

  • Teen angel . New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1978
  • Little darlings . New York: Ballantine, 1980
  • Maiden Rites . New York: Viking Press, 1982
  • I-Land: Manhattan Monologues . New York: Ballantine, 1987
  • 2G , in: Wesley Brown, Amy Ling (Eds.): Visions of America: personal narratives from the promised land . New York: Persea Books, 1999, pp. 201-206
  • The Holocaust kid: stories . New York: Persea Books, 2001
  • Do You Deserve to Live? , in: Melvin Jules Bukiet (Ed.): Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors . New York: WW Norton, 2002
  • The Last Hotel . New York: Heliotrope Books, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sonia Pilcer , author profile, at: The Berkshire Edge
  2. ^ A b c d Gal Beckerman: Unto the second generation , The Jerusalem Post , April 25, 2006
  3. ↑ 2G , in: Seven Days (see: en: Seven Days (newspaper) ), 1987, newly published on the author's website
  4. ^ Nina Fischer: Memory Work: The Second Generation . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, p. 15f.
  5. ↑ The poems presented - Pilzers, as well as poems by Robert Payne , Muriel Rukeyser , Stanley Kunitz , ML Rosenthal and Dan Pagis - are printed in the conference proceedings: Eva Fleischner (Ed.): Auschwitz: beginning of a new era? : Reflections on the holocaust. Papers given at the International Symposium on the Holocaust held at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York City, June 3 to 6, 1974 . New York: Ktav Pub. Co., 1977, pp. 423-440


personal data
SURNAME Pilcer, Sonia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pilcer, Sonia Hanna (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg