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Doris Orgel (born Doris Adelberg, February 15, 1929 in Vienna ) is an American writer and translator .

Life

Doris Adelberg grew up in Vienna and after the annexation of Austria had to leave her school and attend a Jewish school before she fled to Yugoslavia with her parents Erna and Ernst and her sister in 1938 , where the family lived in Zagreb for seven months . They then fled to England in 1939 and finally to New York City in 1940 . After a longer stay in St. Louis , the family lived in New York again from 1941. There she attended Hunter High School . From 1946 to 1948 she studied at Radcliffe College and from 1948 to 1950 at Barnard College . Before debuting as a writer with Grandma's Holidays and Sarah's Room in 1963 , she worked in publishing for five years, translating and editing works by Hauff, Grimm, Brentano and Storm into English.

After her debut in 1963, Orgel wrote over 40 children's and picture books, occasionally together with Emily Coplon and Ellen Schecter . Five of her works have been published in German. Her children's book The devil in Vienna , published in 1978, was published two years later under the title A Blue and a Green Balloon and was filmed by Disney in 1988 under the title A Friendship in Vienna . In addition to several literary awards, she was awarded the Phoenix Award for young people in 1998.

She married the future analyst Shelley Orgel in 1949. She has three children with him.

Works

  • Grandma's Holidays (1963, as Doris Adelberg)
  • Sarah's Room (1963)
    • Sarahs Zimmer , Zurich 1970, Diogenes Verlag
  • Cindy's Snowdrops (1966)
  • Cindy's Sad and Happy Tree (1967)
  • In a Forgotten Place (1967)
  • On the Sand Dune (1968)
  • Merry, Rose and Christmas-Tree (1969)
  • Next Door to Xanadu (1969)
  • Phoebe and the Prince (1969)
  • Whose Turtle? (1969)
  • The Uproar (1970)
  • The Mulberry Music (1971)
  • Bartholomew. We Love You (1973)
  • A Certain Magic (1976)
  • Merry, Merry February (1977)
  • The Devil in Vienna (1978)
  • My War With Mrs. Galloway (1985)
    • My quarrel with Mrs. Gallo and how everything got well again , Frankfurt / Main 1992, Sauerländer Verlag, ISBN 3-7941-3368-4
  • Risking Love (1985)
  • Whiskers Once and Always (1986)
    • My one and everything forever and ever , Frankfurt / Main, Sauerländer Verlag, ISBN 3-7941-3606-3
  • Midnight Soup and a Witch's Hat (1987)
  • Crack in the Heart (1989)
  • Starring Becky Suslow (1989)
  • Nobodies and Somebodies (1991)
  • The Mouse Who Wanted to Marry (1993)
  • Ariadne. Awake! (1994)
  • Button Soup (1994)
  • She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain (1994)
  • The Flower of Sheba (1994)
  • The Spaghetti Party (1995)
  • The Crows Counting (1995)
  • Don't Call Me Slob-o (1996)
  • Friends to Rescue (1996)
  • The Princess and the God (1996)
  • We Goddesses: Athena, Aphrodite, Hera (1999)

literature

  • Nicole Budzinsky: Doris Orgel , in: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (Ed.): Jewish children's literature: history, traditions, perspectives. Exhibition catalog . Wiesbaden 2005, p. 88 f.
  • Ursula Seeber (Hrsg.): Small allies: expelled Austrian children's and youth literature . Vienna: Picus, 1998 ISBN 3-85452-276-2 , pp. 149ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Organ, Doris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adelberg, Doris (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria