Lily Pincus

Lily Pincus (born March 13, 1898 in Karlsbad , Austria-Hungary , † October 22, 1981 in London ) was a German-British social worker and author .

Life

Lily Pincus was born Lily Lazarus on March 13, 1898 in Karlsbad. In 1900 her brother Oskar was born. In 1903 the family moved to Berlin , where their brother Max was born in 1905. From 1914 to the summer of 1916 she trained in scientific photography in the Lettehaus .

In 1918 she met Fritz Pincus, whom she married on June 1, 1922. In the summers of 1923 and 1924 they initially had a weekend apartment in Glienicke, until they finally moved to Potsdam (“in the country”) in May 1925 . Here they lived with their friends Claire and Günther Löwenfeld in the "house on the Küssel". From 1931 she worked as a secretary at the Hoffbauer Foundation Hermannswerder . On February 2, 1939, the couple emigrated to London via Prague . In 1939 she moved to Harlech in Merionethshire ( Wales ) where Lily Pincus in college (adult education) worked. In April 1943 they moved to London. Here she worked as a social worker in family welfare.

In 1948 she founded the Institute for Marriage Studies at the Tavistock Clinic in London, which she directed until 1965 and for which she worked until 1973.

Works (selection)

• ... until death do you part. On the psychology of mourning , Ullstein, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-548-34096-2
• Secrets in the family (together with Christopher Dare), Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-421-01871-5
  • English: Secrets in the Family , Pantheon Books 1978, ISBN 0-394-41357-1
• The old age. Staying alive to the last , Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-492-11369-9
• Lost - won. My way from Berlin to London , autobiography, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-421-01931-2

literature

• Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss , (Ed.), Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 2 Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2