Nora Ephron

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Ephron with her husband Nicholas Pileggi in New York City, 2010

Nora Ephron (born May 19, 1941 in New York City , † June 26, 2012 there ) was an American screenwriter and film director .

Life

Nora Ephron came from a family of writers. Her parents Henry and Phoebe Ephron moved from the east coast to Los Angeles , where they both wrote screenplays. Nora was the oldest of four daughters. After graduating from Beverly Hills High School in 1958, she studied at Wellesley College in Massachusetts; the letters she wrote home during this time served her parents as the basis for the comedy In Liebe eine 1 . After graduating in 1962, Nora moved to New York and worked for the New York Post .

During this time she was asked to write a script by film producers. She was won over by the charm of the stranger and the advantage of being able to work from home given her very young children and, unlike before, not having to travel much. After the divorce, she also had financial problems as a single mother and the comparatively moderate screenwriting fees were still higher than what she had earned as a journalist. And filmmaking is much more interesting than journalistic work.

She was married to the author Dan Greenburg for seven years. In 1976 she met the Watergate scout Carl Bernstein . In 1978 she gave birth to their son Jacob. When she was pregnant with her second child, she found out that Bernstein was cheating on her with their mutual friend Margaret Jay . About her failed marriage with Bernstein, Ephron wrote the novel Heartburn, for whose film adaptation (German title: heartburn ) she also wrote the screenplay. In 1987 she married screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi for the third time .

Ephron's first success as a screenwriter was in the 1980s, when she received Oscar nominations for her work on the political thriller Silkwood (1983) with Meryl Streep in the title role and the romantic comedy Harry and Sally (1989) with Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal . From the beginning of the 1990s she began to realize her own scripts as a director, including the love comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993) or em @ il for you (1998), each with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks in the leading roles.

Occasionally, Ephron worked with her sisters Delia and Amy; her sister Hallie is a journalist and crime writer.

Nora Ephron died in Manhattan in June 2012 at the age of 71 as a result of her leukemia .

Nora Ephron Prize

In 2013, the New York Tribeca Film Festival awarded the $ 25,000 Nora Ephron Prize, which is to be awarded annually at the Women's Filmmaker Brunch.

Works

Plays

  • 2013: Lucky Guy , nominated for several categories in the Tony Award competition for 2013.

Scripts

Books

Awards

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Emma Brockes : A life in writing: Everything is copy . In: The Guardian . March 3, 2007.
  2. ^ Nora Ephron in Tales from the Script . Eds. Peter Hanson, Paul Robert Herman. 1st edition. HarperCollins, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-06-185592-4 , p. 10.
  3. ^ Jacob Bernstein - Biography in the Internet Movie Database (English).
  4. ^ Charles McGrath: Nora Ephron, essayist, screenwriter and director, Dies at 71 . In: The New York Times . June 26, 2012 (English).
  5. ^ Complex women in FAZ from April 19, 2013, page 36.
personal data
SURNAME Ephron, Nora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 2012
Place of death New York City , New York , United States