Winifred Katzin
Winifred Katzin (1894-1994). Translator.
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Biography
Winnifred was born in 1894,
She later married Ernest Gloor in Lausanne.
According to Adam Yamey (2004), there may have been a South African connection,
Winnie was probably Winifred Katzin (1894-1994)
who later married Ernest Gloor in Lausanne.
Winifred Katzin (1894-1994), was married to Ernest Gloor in Lausanne.
She seems to have been a prolific translator and even adaptor of plays. Among her translations over the years include The Failures by H.R. Lenormand (1923), Dybbuk by S. Ansky (translated with Henry G. Alsberg, 1925),
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Perhaps her best known publication was Short Plays from Twelve Countries, a collection of English one act plays selected, some translated and adapted, and edited by Winifred Katzin (London: George G Harrap and Co., 1937).
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.
Sources
Adam Yamey. 2004. "A Wedding in Roeland Street", SA-SIG Newsletter (Vol. 4, Issue 3, March 2004): p.6[]
Jo Mielziner: Other Works, IMDb[1]
Sydney Paul Gosher. 1988. A Historical and Critical Survey of the South African One-Act Play Written in English. Unpublished D.Litt. et Phil. Thesis, University of South Africa.
NELM catalogue.
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