Judith Stolzer-Segall

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Judith Stolzer-Segall (born May 20, 1904 in Melitopol , Lithuania ; † December 1, 1990 in Munich ) was a German architect who had to leave Nazi Germany in 1933 for political reasons and emigrated to Palestine .

Life and work

Judith Segall was of German-Jewish descent and grew up in Berlin . After the outbreak of World War I, he was deported to Lithuania in 1914. In 1924 she moved to Gdansk , where she studied architecture at the Technical University there and graduated with a diploma in 1929.

After completing her studies, she initially worked as an architect in the Arthur Megies architectural office, but returned to Berlin. Here she worked as an architect in the Leo Nachtlicht office , later in the building department of the Jewish community until the end of 1931. In 1932 she founded an architecture office together with Arthur Megies and Max Sinjen.

Judith Segall was temporarily imprisoned for political reasons in 1933 and emigrated to Palestine after a short stay in Danzig. In Tel Aviv she worked for the architect Seev Richter. Here she made the acquaintance of Oskar Kaufmann and Eugen Jenőt Stolzer (1886–1958), whom she married in 1941. In 1957 Judith Stolzer-Segall left the country together with Eugen Stolzer. After the death of her husband in 1958, she moved to Munich in 1959.

Buildings and projects

  • Single-family house in Tel Aviv , 1933
  • Landhaus Dr. Stone with a garden in Rishon LeZion , 1934
  • Central Synagogue in Hadera , 1935
  • Kirjat Meir settlement in Tel Aviv, 1937
  • Union House in Jerusalem , 1950–1958

Prices

  • First prize for a single-family home in Tel Aviv (1934)
  • First prize for planning a housing estate (1935)
  • First prize for the Central Synagogue in Hadera (1935)
  • First prize for an experimental housing estate in Tel Aviv (1937)

Memberships

literature

  • Susanne Businger: German-speaking architects in exile at the time of National Socialism.
  • Tel Aviv. New building 1930–1939. Exhibition catalog, Institute for Foreign Relations Stuttgart, TU München Architekturmuseum, Tübingen: Wasmuth 1993, ISBN 9783803028105 .
  • Edina Meyer-Maril: Three women, three paths, one modernity: Genia Averbuch, Judith Segall-Stolzer and Elsa Gidoni-Mandelstamm plan and build in Eretz Israel . In: Jörg Stabenow / Ronny Schüler: Mediation Paths of Modernity - New Building in Palestine (1923–1948) , Berlin: Gebr. Mann 2019, ISBN 978-3-7861-2781-9 , pp. 69–82.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Institute for Art and Building History , Stolzer-Segall, Judith
personal data
SURNAME Proud Segall, Judith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Melitopol , Lithuania
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1990
Place of death Munich