Mary Lowenthal Felstiner

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Mary Lowenthal Felstiner ( Hebrew פלסטינר, מרי, born February 19, 1941 in Pittsburgh ) is an American historian. Her study To Paint her Life about the German painter and poet Charlotte Salomon , who was murdered as a Jew in Auschwitz , is considered a basic work.

life and work

Mary Lowenthal Felstiner studied history at Harvard , Columbia University and Stanford , where she received her doctorate in 1971 with the dissertation The Larrain family in the independence of Chile 1780-1830 . After holding positions as visiting professor in Paris, Santa Cruz , Yale and Stanford , she taught history at San Francisco State University from 1981 until her retirement as professor .

Her main interest was the German painter and poet Charlotte Salomon, on whom she researched for 15 years. You wrote four essays on Solomon's painted life story Life? Or theater? before doing the biographical work To Paint Her Life. Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era , for which she received the Women's Heritage Museum First Annual Book Award and the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for Women's History from the American Historical Association . Felstiner reads the life of Charlotte Salomon as a "personified story" of the destruction of German-Jewish families during the Holocaust .

In 2005 she published Out of Joint, a story of arthritis that is both her family's story and her own experience of this chronic health problem and its cure.

She is married to the American literary critic and professor of comparative literature John Felstiner. After their retirement, John and Mary Felstiner gave courses together at Stanford University on the subject of 'creative resistance' by Jews in the Holocaust.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • To Paint Her Life. Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era . Harper Collins, New York 1994, ISBN 0-06-017105-7 ; Harper Perennial 1995; University of California Press 1997
  • Out of joint. A Private & Public Story of Arthritis . (American Lives Series), edited by Tobias Wolff , University of Nebraska 2005, ISBN 0-8032-2030-8

Articles and book contributions

  • Alois Brunner , 'Eichmann's Best Tool' , Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual, vol. 3, New York 1986
  • Taking Her Life / History. The Autobiography of Charlotte Salomon , in: Life / Lines. Theorizing Women's Autobiography , ed. by B. Brodzki, C. Schenk, Cornell University Press, 1988, ISBN 978-0-8014-2208-9
  • Artwork as evidence. Charlotte Salomon's 'Life or Theater?' , in: Remembering for the Future: The Impact of the Holocaust on the Contemporary World , ed. by Yehûdā Bauer, Pergamon Press, Oxford 1988, ISBN 978-0-08-036755-2 , pp. 1739-48
  • Engendering an Autobiography: Charlotte Salomon's 'Life or Theater?' in Revealing Lives. Autobiography, Biography and Gender , ed. by Marilyn Yalom , Susan Bell, State University of New York Press, 1990, ISBN 0-7914-0435-8 , pp. 183-192
  • Charlotte Salomon's Inward-Turning Testimony , in: Holocaust Remembrance. The Shapes of Memory , ed. by Geoffrey Hartman, Blackwell, London 1993, ISBN 978-1-55786-367-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael P. Steinberg, Monica Bohm-Duchen (Ed.): Reading Charlotte Salomon , Cornell University Press 2006, ISBN 978-0-8014-3971-1 , p. 105
  2. ^ Mary Lowenthal Felstiner , Jewish Women's Archive . Retrieved August 26, 2015. < http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/felstiner-mary >
  3. ^ Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History ( Memento April 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Julia Watson: Autobiography as Cultural Performance. Charlotte Salomon's Life? or Theater? , in: Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson (eds.): Interfaces. Women, Autobiography, Image, Performance. University of Michigan Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-472-06814-2 , p. 347
  5. ↑ Reviewed by Ann Millett, Disability Studies Quarterly, Spring 2006, Volume 26, No. 2
  6. ↑ Cynthia Haven, How Jews used 'creative resistance' to oppose the Nazis , Stanford Report, April 30, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Lowenthal Felstiner, Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Felstiner, Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian, biographer of Charlotte Salomon
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh