Eve Ensler

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Eve Ensler (born May 25, 1953 in New York City , New York ) is an American playwright , writer , artist and feminist activist, who became known to a wider audience through the play Vagina Monologues . In 1998 she founded V-Day , an international day of action against violence against women, and in 2012 initiated the global campaign day One Billion Rising .

Life

Eve Ensler grew up in Scarsdale , New York. Her father was a servant in an upper-class Manhattan household . She was sexually abused and mistreated by him from the age of five until she moved out of her parents' house at sixteen . As a result of the abuse, Ensler suffered from post- traumatic stress disorder for many years , which only got better when she began writing plays at the age of 23. Your commitment to end violence against women and girls can be seen as a result of these experiences.

Eve Ensler studied poetry and drama at Middlebury College in Vermont , graduating in 1975. Three years later she married the actor Richard McDermott and became the adoptive mother of his then 15-year-old son Dylan McDermott . The marriage ended in 1988.

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In 1995 she started working on the vagina monologues. First performed at Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village , they were eventually translated into 48 languages and premiered in over 140 countries around the world, with actors including Jane Fonda , Whoopi Goldberg , Glenn Close , Susan Sarandon , Cyndi Lauper and Oprah Winfrey . The piece won the Obie Award , the Elliot Award for Outstanding Solo Performance and the Jury Award for Theater within the US Comedy Arts Festival . In 1998 Vagina-Monlogues was published as a book with an introduction and laudation for Eve Ensler by Gloria Steinem .

The vagina monologues inspired Ensler to establish V-Day ( victory over violence ) in 1998 . It takes place on February 14th, Valentine's Day , as a global campaign to raise awareness of violence against women and girls. V-Day activities include campaigns against female genital mutilation , rape and sexual harassment. Ensler has dedicated her life to this cause.

Ensler's drama Necessary Targets: A Story of Women and War , first produced in 1996 and published as a book in 2001, tells the story of two American women who meet Bosnian women, rape survivors, in a refugee camp. It was staged in Sarajevo with Glenn Close and Marisa Tomei in the lead roles . Meryl Streep and Anjelica Huston read the piece in New York in 2002 and Vanessa Redgrave in London.

Fonts (selection)

Plays

  • The Vagina Monologues , Villard 1998.
    • The Vagina Monologues , Edition Nautilus, first edition 2000.
  • Necessary Targets , Villard 2001.
  • The Good Body , William Heinemann, 2004.

Other

  • Vagina Warriors (with Joyce Tenneson, photos), Little, Brown & Company, 2005.
  • Insecure at Last: A Political Memoir , 2007.
  • I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World , 2011.

Movies

  • The Vagina Monologues , film adaptation of the play with Eve Ensler in the lead role, directed by Joe Mantello, 2002
  • Until The Violence Stops , documentary, directed by Abby Epstein, 2003
  • What I want my Words to do to you , documentary, directors: Madeleine Gavin, Gary Sunshine, Judith Katz, 2004

Awards

  • 1997: Berilla-Kerr Award for Theater
  • 1997: Obie Award for Vagina Monlogues
  • 2003: Freedom of Expression Award, Sundance Filmfestival , for What I want my Words to do to you
  • 2011: Tony Award ( Isabelle Stevenson Award )

Academic promotion and distinction

literature

  • Gabrielle H. Cody (Ed.): Eve Ensler , in: The Columbia encyclopedia of modern drama: AL , Columbia University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-231-14032-4 , pp. 419f.
  • Mary Ellen Snodgrass: Eve Ensler , in: Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature , Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004, ISBN 978-0-313-32731-5 , pp. 174f.

Web links

Commons : Eve Ensler  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Mary Ellen Snodgrass: Eve Ensler , in: Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature , Greenwood 2004, ISBN 978-0-313-32731-5 , pp. 174f.
  2. ↑ Naomi Pfefferman: Navel Gazing with Eve Ensler ( English ) JewishJournal.com. December 8, 2005. Archived from the original on October 11, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 20, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jewishjournal.com
  3. ↑ Sanja Bahun-Radunović, VG Julie Rajan (ed.): Violence and Gender in the Globalized World , Ashgate Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7546-7364-4 , pp. 206f.
  4. ↑ a b Gabrielle H. Cody (Ed.): Eve Ensler , in: The Columbia encyclopedia of modern drama: AL , Columbia University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-231-14032-4 , pp. 419f.
  5. ^ Sian Harris: Ensler, Eve , in: Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World , Volume 1, Sage Publications, 2011, ISBN 978-1412976855 , p. 480
  6. ↑ Anita Gates: THEATER REVIEW: A Body Part Returns As the Leading Lady ( English ) NYTimes.com. October 4, 1999. Retrieved February 20, 2013.
  7. ^ Eve Ensler ( English ) jwa.org (Jewish Women's Archive). Retrieved February 20, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Ensler, Eve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cohen, Eva Marga (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist and feminist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York, United States