Joanne Greenberg

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Joanne Greenberg (born September 24, 1932 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American writer. She published under the pen name Hannah Green .

Life

From the end of September 1948, Greenberg was treated for four years for schizophrenia by Frieda Fromm-Reichmann in the Chestnut Lodge psychiatric clinic in rural Maryland . From 1952 she attended college at the American University in Washington. She studied anthropology and English literature and earned a bachelor's degree . She also studied at the universities in London and Colorado . Joanne Greenberg has been married to the psychotherapist Albert Greenberg since 1955. The marriage has two sons.

Pierce Arrow advertisement from 1919

Her first novel, The King's Persons (1963) is about the pogrom against the Jewish population in York on March 16, 1190. As a writer, Greenberg is primarily through their 1964 published novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (dt. I you never got a Rose garden promised ). The report about the healing of schizophrenia of a young person from a Jewish family by the therapist Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, who pioneered schizophrenia treatment , has strong autobiographical traits. In 1977 the novel was filmed under the title of the same name . In 2004 a play of the same name was also released .

The novel In this Sign (1970) arose from her professional activity in a therapeutic program for clients who suffer from deafness and who are learning sign language . It is about the deaf couple Abel and Janice around 1920. The plot begins with the purchase of a Pierce-Arrow car by the financially weak protagonist Abel.

Awards

  • Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award
  • Jewish Book Council of America Award for The King's Persons

Works

  • 1963: The King's Persons.
    • German first edition: Chamber servants. Radius, Stuttgart 1988
    • Paperback edition: Servants of the King. Translation by Sonja Ott and Klaus-Peter Burkarth. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-499-15901-5 .
  • 1964: I never promised you a rose garden. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York
    • German edition: I never promised you a rose garden. Report of a cure. Translation by Jürgen and Elisabeth Hilke and Ekkehard and Ursula Pohlmann. Radius, Stuttgart 1973; New edition 2012, ISBN 978-3-87173-931-6 .
    • Paperback: I never promised you a rose garden. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1978; New edition 2000, ISBN 3-499-22776-2 .
  • 1965: The Monday Voices.
  • 1966: Summering: A Book of Short Stories.
    • German edition: Without touching. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-499-15661-X .
  • 1970: In this Sign. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York
    • German edition: With this symbol. Translated from the American by Kyra Stromberg . Radius, Stuttgart 1975
    • Paperback edition: With this symbol. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-499-14869-2 .
  • 1976: Founder's Praise.
    • German edition: When summer comes. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-499-14992-3 .
  • 1979: High Crimes and Misdemeanors (Short Stories)
  • 1981: A Season of Delight.
    • German edition: A time like in paradise. Translated from the American by Kyra Stromberg. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-499-15901-5 .
  • 1983: The Far Side of Victory.
    • German edition: Herbstzeitlose or: lucky coincidence? Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-499-12186-7 .
  • 1986: Simple Gifts.
  • 1987: Age of Consent.
    • German edition: From free pieces , Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-499-12860-8 .
  • 1988: Of Such Small Differences.
    • German edition: Before you love. Translated from the American by Annette Kleinhorst. Diogenes, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-257-22625-X .
  • 1991: With the Snow Queen (Short Stories).
    • German edition: Olympia Blues and other stories . Translated from the American by Annette Keinhorst. Diogenes, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-257-22732-9 .
  • 1993: No Reck'ning Made.
  • 1998: Where The Road Goes.
  • 2006: Appearances.

Film adaptations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Garfield, Daniel Mackler: Beyond Medication: Therapeutic Engagement and the Recovery from Psychosis, Routledge, 2013, p. 155 [1]
  2. ^ A b Gail A. Hornstein To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World: The Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
  3. ↑ http://www.mountaintopauthor.com/pages/about.html
  4. ↑ Biographical data in: Hannah Green: I never promised you a rose garden. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1979.
  5. ↑ Hannah Green: With this sign. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1981, p. 10
personal data
SURNAME Greenberg, Joanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Green, Hannah (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City