Deborah Vietor-English
Deborah Judith Vietor-Engländer (born 1946 in London ) is a British literary scholar.
Life
Deborah Vietor-Engländer's father fled Prague in 1939 and found refuge in Great Britain, her sister Shulamit Engländer Amir was rescued by Nicholas Winton on the Kindertransport to London in 1939. Deborah Vietor-Engländer studied German and French at University College London (BA). She then worked as a freelance writer for the BBC German Service and taught at the Polytechnic of Central London . She worked for the Fontane letter edition and did her doctorate with Walter Jens at the University of Tübingen on Faust in the GDR.
In 1979 their daughter Miriam Vietor was born.
From 1972 to 1992 she held a position as a research assistant at Saarland University and then at TU Darmstadt .
Numerous publications on exile and Shoah issues, including on Yiddish in English, on the authors Lion Feuchtwanger, Heinrich Mann, Friedrich Torberg, Hermynia Zur Mühlen and Arnold Zweig. Editor of The Legacy of Exile (1998), the series Jüdische Bibliothek and Exil-Documents and the volumes Sucher und Selige (2009) and That was my time (2013) as part of the Alfred Kerr work edition published by S. Fischer Verlag. She is the editor-in-chief of Hermann Sinsheimer's three-volume work edition, Volume I 2013, Volume II 2017. In 2016 her great Alfred Kerr biography was published by Rowohlt (720 pages)
She is currently working on an edition of Alfred Kerr's Berlin chat letters 1897–1922.
Vietor-Engländer was vice chairman of the International Arnold Zweig Society from 1991 to 1996 and then its chairman until 2002. She has been President of the Alfred Kerr Foundation since May 2017. She has been on the board of the PEN Center of German-Speaking Writers Abroad since 2020.
Fonts (selection)
- Faust in the GDR . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1987, also dissertation, University of Tübingen 1986.
- The Legacy of exile: Lives, Letters, Literature . Blackwell, Oxford 1998.
- with Eckart Früh , Ursula Seeber (ed.): Hermynia Zur Mühlen : Vierzehn Nothelfer and other novels from exile . 2 volumes. Peter Lang, Bern 2002.
- (Ed.): Alfred Kerr: Seekers and blessed, moralists and penitents. Literary investigation . S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2009.
- (Ed.): Exile in the foggy country: Elisabeth Castonier's letters to Mary Tucholsky. A chronicle . Peter Lang, Bern 2010, ISBN 978-3-03910-037-8 .
- Hermann Sinsheimer's German-Jewish fate . In: Kerstin Schoor (ed.): Between racial hatred and the search for identity. German-Jewish literary culture in National Socialist Germany. Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0648-6 , pp. 285-303.
- (Ed.): Hermann Sinsheimer : Lived in Paradise. Publishing house for Berlin-Brandenburg, 2013.
- (Ed.): Alfred Kerr: That was my time: first things and things I lived through. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013.
- Alfred Kerr - The biography . Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-498-07066-3 .
- (Ed.): Hermann Sinsheimer: `Shylock´ Quintus-Verlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-945256-10-7 .
- (Ed.): Alfred Kerr: What is man in Berlin. Letters from a European flaneur, Aufbau-Verlag Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3351-03692-8
- (Ed. Hermann Sinsheimer, What I lived, what I saw. Letters and theater reviews Quintus-Verlag 2020 ISBN
Web links
- Literature by and about Deborah Vietor-Engländer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Deborah Vietor-Engländer in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Deborah Vietor-Engländer at perlentaucher.de
- Deborah Vietor-Englander , website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vietor Englishman, Deborah |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vietor-Englander, Deborah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |