Irene dische biography
Irene Dische was..
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From there, Irene backpacked to Kenya, where she worked for famed paleontologist Louia Leakey. She returned to the United States in Back in her home country, she enrolled at Harvard University, majoring in Literature and Anthropology.
After graduation, Irene worked as a freelance journalist, publishing in The New Yorker and The Nation. In the early s, Irene moved to Berlin, Germany, a place where she still spends a considerable amount of time.
Irene Dische (born February 13, ) is an American-Austrian author, journalist, screenwriter, and librettist whose work explores the German-Jewish experience.
In , Irene produced the documentary film Zacharias (). The film was based on her own script about her father, a Jew from Lemberg, who – having grown up in Vienna – fled to America through France to become one of the most distinguished biochemists of his generation.
It was broadcast on the ZDF.
Before Dische started to write novels she worked as a scriptwriter on her project The Jewess.
In , Dische published her first novel Pious Secrets. The book became a bestseller throughout Europe and was translated i