Eva Kollisch
Eva Kollisch ; (Born August 17, 1925 in Vienna ) is an American writer , literary scholar and Germanist , pacifist and feminist .
Live and act
Eva Kollisch was born as the daughter of the writer Margarete Kollisch (1893–1979), née Moller, and the architect Otto Kollisch (1881–1952). She spent her school days in Baden . In July 1939 she fled to Great Britain on a Kindertransport and was able to emigrate to the USA with her two brothers Peter and Stephan in 1940 , where her parents had found refuge in November 1939.
In New York , she was a member of the Trotskyist Workers Party from 1941 to 1946 and married the nephew of Max Shachtman , the party activist and author Stanley Plastrik, one of the publishers of Dissent magazine . In 1950 she opened the collectively run Café Rienzi , 107 MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, together with her second husband, the painter Gert Berliner (* 1924) and others such as the painter David Grossblatt . The café was a kind of Mecca for New York bohemians and guests like James Baldwin , Jack Kerouac , Bob Dylan and other beatniks came . The science fiction author Chester Anderson appeared as a musician.
Eva Kollisch studied German and literature at Brooklyn College and later at Columbia University . She then introduced a women's research curriculum at Sarah Lawrence College with Gerda Lerner and Joan Kelly . It was at this college that she eventually became a professor, teaching English, German, comparative, and women's literature.
Her son Uri Berliner, who became a journalist, comes from her marriage to Gert Berliner. The retired scientist and author is still politically active and lives with her partner, the American poet Naomi Replansky (* 1918), in New York .
Eva Kollisch is the 2012 winner of the Theodor Kramer Prize .
Works (selection)
- Girl in movement: a memoir . VT, Thetford 2000; Girl in motion . Vienna 2003 (German translation)
- The ground under my feet . Maplewood, NJ 2007; The ground under my feet . Vienna 2010 (German translation)
Web links
- Literature by and about Eva Kollisch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Eva Kollisch
- Voices of Feminism Oral History Project (PDF; 237 kB)
- Christiana Puschak: An encounter with Eva Kollisch. In a new newsletter from the Society for Exile Research e. V., No. 34, December 2009. p.17 (PDF; 288 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Siglinde Bolbecher , Konstantin Kaiser : Lexicon of Austrian exile literature . Vienna 2000, p. 393 ISBN 3-216-30548-1
- ^ The New York Times, June 26, 1981
- ^ Memories of the Cafe Rienzi
- ^ The New York Times, September 14, 1987
- ^ Eva Kollisch receives Theodor Kramer Prize in Der Standard, February 14, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kollisch, Eva |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer, Germanist, literary scholar, pacifist and feminist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 17, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |