Winifred Katzin - Revision history

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Biography

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Biography

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Her career as translator, compiler and author

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Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

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Her career as translator, compiler and author

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Biography

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 Winnifred appears to have been born , in Cape Town in 1894, the sister of Norah (Norah de la Fere, later of  Ludlow, England) and Alfred G. Katzin, who became a Colonel during World War II and former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, and later settled at Weybridge, England.
-Winifred became the second wife of Dr Ernest Gloor (1893-1964) of Lausanne, Switzerland, where she died in 1994.
+Winifred became the second wife of Dr Ernest Gloor (1893-1964) of Lausanne, Switzerland, She died in 1994.
 ==Her career as translator, compiler and author==

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 ==Biography==
-Winnifred appears to have been born , in Cape Town in 1894, the sister of Norah (Norah de la Fere, later of  Ludlow, England) and Alfred G. Katzin, a Colonel during World War II and former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, who later settled at Weybridge, England.
+Winnifred appears to have been born , in Cape Town in 1894, the sister of Norah (Norah de la Fere, later of  Ludlow, England) and Alfred G. Katzin, who became a Colonel during World War II and former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, and later settled at Weybridge, England.
 Winifred became the second wife of Dr Ernest Gloor (1893-1964) of Lausanne, Switzerland, where she died in 1994.

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 ==Her career as translator, compiler and author==
-She was a talented linguist and a prolific translator and even adaptor - particularly of Eastern European and Yiddish plays. Among her translations over the years have been ''[[Failures]]'' by Henri-Rene Lenormand (1923), ''[[The Dybbuk|Dybbuk]]'' by S. Ansky (1925, translated with Henry G. Alsberg),  ''[[The Coral]]'' by Georg Kaiser (1929), ''[[The Passion Play of Alsfeld]]'' M. Wall-Neumann (1935).
+She was a talented linguist and a prolific translator and even adaptor - particularly of Eastern European and Yiddish plays. Among her translations over the years have been ''[[Failures]]'' by Henri-Rene Lenormand (1923), ''[[The Dybbuk|Dybbuk]]'' by S. Ansky (1925, translated with Henry G. Alsberg),  ''[[The Coral]]'' by Georg Kaiser (1929), ''[[The Passion Play of Alsfeld]]'' by M. Wall-Neumann (1935).
 She also edited and collaborated on a number of play compilations, among them:

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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
-Her collection of ''[[Short Plays from Twelve Countries]]'' (1937) contains the text of the South African play  ''[[In the Drought]]''  by [[J du Plessis]].
+Her collection of ''[[Short Plays from Twelve Countries]]'' (1937) contains the text of the South African play  ''[[In the Drought]]''  by [[J. du Plessis]].
 In South Africa, the Eastern European one-act plays ''[[The Jews of Hodos]]'' by Sandor Martinescu and ''[[Diamond Cuts Diamond]]'' by Nikolai Gogol - both translated by Katzin - were performed locally and published (re-published?) as performance texts by [[DALRO]] in 1969.

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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
-Her collection of ''[[Short Plays from Twelve Countries]]'' (1937) contains the text of the South African play  by [[J du Plessis]].
+Her collection of ''[[Short Plays from Twelve Countries]]'' (1937) contains the text of the South African play  ''[[In the Drought]]''  by [[J du Plessis]].
-In South Africa the Eastern European one-act plays ''[[The Jews of Hodos]]'' by Sandor Martinescu and ''[[Diamond Cuts Diamond]]'' by Nikolai Gogol - both translated by Katzin - were performed locally and published (re-published?) as performance texts by [[DALRO]] in 1969.
+In South Africa, the Eastern European one-act plays ''[[The Jews of Hodos]]'' by Sandor Martinescu and ''[[Diamond Cuts Diamond]]'' by Nikolai Gogol - both translated by Katzin - were performed locally and published (re-published?) as performance texts by [[DALRO]] in 1969.
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 Adam Yamey. 2004. "A Wedding in Roeland Street", ''[[SA-SIG Newsletter]]'' (Vol. 4, Issue 3, March 2004): p.6
-"ErnestGloor", ''Dictionnaire Historiques de la Suisse''[https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/fr/articles/004911/2005-11-28/]]
+"Ernest Gloor", ''Dictionnaire Historiques de la Suisse''[https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/fr/articles/004911/2005-11-28/]]
 "Katzin, Winifred", ''[[WorldCat]]'' online catalogue[https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AKatzin%2C+Winifred.&qt=hot_author]