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(1925-2023) Activist, writer, memoirist. Eva Kollisch was born in Vienna, Austria, and died in Manhattan, New York.

Full Name

Eva Kollisch

Locations

Richmond

Author's Timeline

1925

BIRTH

Eva Maria Kollisch was born in Vienna, Austria, on August 17, 1925.

1940

RESIDENCE

As a youth, Ms. Kollisch and her family lived on Staten Island, New York.

1942

OTHER

Ms. Kollisch graduated from Curtis High School in Staten Island, New York, in 1942.

1950

OTHER

Ms. Kollisch and her husband, Gert Berliner, helped operate the Cafe Rienzi in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York, in the early 1950s.

1951

OTHER

Ms. Kollisch received a bachelor's degree in German literature from Brooklyn College in 1951.

1963

OTHER

Ms. Kollisch received a master's degree in German from Columbia University in 1963.

1963

OTHER

Ms. Kollisch taught comparative literature and German for thirty years at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, beginning in 1963.

2000

LITWORK

Girl in Movement
Glad Day Books; First Edition.
1930180055 / 978-1930180055
Memoir.

2008

LITWORK

The Ground Under My Feet
Hamilton Stone Editions; Illustrated edition.
0971487375 / 978-0971487376
Memoir.

2023

DEATH

Eva Kollisch died at her home in Manhattan, New York, on October 10, 2023.

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