Sina Walden

Sina Walden (* 1933 in Moscow ) is a German television and book author , translator and animal rights activist .

life and work

Sina Walden is the daughter of the gallery owner and writer Herwarth Walden and the translator Ellen Walden, née Bork. The family lived in exile in Moscow during the first years of Walden's life. When her father was arrested in 1941, his wife and daughter returned to Germany.

Sina Walden studied law in Heidelberg and Berlin . She worked as a freelance nonfiction and television author (including marriages in court , the television court meets , Alles Gute, Köhler , body language ). In 1973 she was awarded the Golden Camera for marriages in court . She lives in Munich and Italy .

Since 1983 she has been involved in civic initiatives and grassroots groups for animal rights by publishing numerous articles , essays and book reviews , and giving television appearances and lectures . Walden became famous for her book Endzeit für Tiere , which she wrote together with Gisela Bulla in 1984 . A call for their liberation . This publication and Walden's personal friendship with the writer Hans Wollschläger were the reason for his essay Animals look at you or the potential Mengele , who is committed to what he believes is dubious handling of livestock and laboratory animals .

Publications

(with Gisela Bulla ): End times for animals. A call for their liberation . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-19310-8 .

as a translator

Emilio Sanna: Crazy behind bars . On the sufferings of zoo animals (1992).
Emilio Sanna: monkey love - monkey disgrace. How we make animals mad behind bars. With a foreword by Sina Walden (1987).

Web links

Literature by and about Sina Walden in the catalog of the German National Library
Sina Walden in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Animal Welfare to Animal Rights: The Story of a Movement . In: Emma , November / December 2002
“We're talking about animals.” An obituary for Hans Wollschläger . In: Anima. Zeitschrift für Tierrechte , No. 2, summer 2007, p. 6f

Individual evidence

↑ Kerstin Herrnkind : The storm kindled by Herwarth Walden: Expressionism for beginners . neobooks, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7380-1352-8 ( limited preview [accessed January 14, 2019]).
↑ Hans Wollschläger: Review by Sina Walden and Gisela Bulla "End Times for Animals", Rabe No. 12, p. 204. Zurich 1986
↑ Lutz Hagestedt: The Mengele potential - Hans Wollschläger: Animals look at you or Mengele potential . ( Memento from June 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: netzwerk-literaturkritik.de .

personal data
SURNAME	Walden, Sina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author, translator and animal rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH	1933
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow

[1] Kerstin Herrnkind : The storm kindled by Herwarth Walden: Expressionism for beginners . neobooks, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7380-1352-8 ( limited preview [accessed January 14, 2019]).

[2] Hans Wollschläger: Review by Sina Walden and Gisela Bulla "End Times for Animals", Rabe No. 12, p. 204. Zurich 1986

[3] Lutz Hagestedt: The Mengele potential - Hans Wollschläger: Animals look at you or Mengele potential . ( Memento from June 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: netzwerk-literaturkritik.de .