Marion Philadelphia

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Marion Philadelphia (* 1960 in Cuxhaven ) is a German author, journalist and translator who lives in Los Angeles . She is a professor at the USC Marshall School of Business .

Life

Marion Philadelphia grew up in Celle and, after graduating from high school in 1978, first trained as a photographer before studying American studies , English literature and journalism in Hamburg . After completing her master's degree, she emigrated to the USA and worked in Los Angeles as an author, translator and journalist. She worked v. a. for the entertainment and film industries.

Since 2002 she has been teaching with a focus on corporate communications at the USC Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California , where she received her PhD in 2013 and has been a professor since 2017.

Her historical novel about Jacob Philadelphia , published in 1999, The Juggler of the Kings claims to have an autobiographical motivation, as it believes it is related to the American magician who performed in Europe at the end of the 18th century.

Publications

  • Will school-based online faculty development be an effective tool for their professional growth? University of Southern California Los Angeles, 2013, ISBN 978-1-303-12522-5 (also dissertation)
  • The juggler of kings. Novel . Blanvalet, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-7645-0071-9 . As a paperback by Goldmann, Munich 2001
Translation from German into English
  • Roland Jaeger : New Weimar on the Pacific: the Pazifische Presse and German exile publishing in Los Angeles 1942-48 . Victoria Dailey Publisher, Los Angeles 2000, ISBN 0-9657858-2-3
  • Ulf Bankmann: A Prussian in Mexican California: Ferdinand Deppe, horticulturist, collector for European museums, trader and artist , in: The Southern California Quarterly, (Vol 84 No.1), Historical Society of California, 2002
  • Roland Jaeger: Curious George and HA and Margret Rey , in: Firsts . The Book Collectors Magazine, Vol. 8, # 12, December 1998.
  • Karl With : Autobiography of Ideas. The Legacy of an Extraordinary Art Scholar , Gebrüder Mann Verlag, Berlin, 1997, ISBN 978-3-7861-1977-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marion Philadelphia, Ed.D. Curriculum Vitae , USC_Marshall_School_of_Business (pdf)
  2. ↑ Marion Philadelphia: The Juggler of the Kings , Munich 1999, p. 379
  3. ^ Jackman, Jarrell C. "New Weimar on the Pacific: The Pazifische Presse and German Exile Publishing 1942-48. (Reviews)." California History, vol. 80, no.4, 2001, p. 230f.
personal data
SURNAME Philadelphia, Marion
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Cuxhaven