Anna Löwenstein

Anna Löwenstein
Löwenstein in 2016
Born1951 (age 74–75)
Other nameAnna Brennan
OccupationsJournalist, teacher
Known forEsperanto work and activism
Spouse
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(died 2025)​
FatherHeinz Bernard

Anna Löwenstein (born 1951) is a British journalist, teacher and activist in the Esperanto movement.

Biography

Löwenstein worked for the Universal Esperanto Association from 1977 to 1981. She has more than 20 years of experience in teaching Esperanto. She has been a member of the Academy of Esperanto since 2001.

Under the name Anna Brennan, she founded and was editor of the feminist magazine Sekso kaj Egaleco 1979–1988, and she edited the "easy language" section of Kontakto during 1983–1986. She has written some non-fiction, and two novels. Her historical novel The Stone City (La Ŝtona Urbo), was first published in English and Esperanto in 1999, and has since been translated into French (2010) and Hungarian (2014). Her second novel Morto de artisto (2008) was published in Esperanto.

She is the widow of Renato Corsetti (1941–2025), who served as president of the Universal Esperanto Association. The couple lived together in Italy from 1981, then from 2015 lived in the United Kingdom. Her father was the actor and director Heinz Bernard.

References

  1. ↑ Trarigardo de la E-Gazetaro – 04.05.2004 Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Radio Polonia (in Esperanto). Retrieved 5 November 2010
  2. ↑ Pep Talk radio Team. "LEARN ESPERANTO WITH ANNA LOWENSTEIN". Pep Talk Radio.
  3. ↑ Sutton, Geoffrey. Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto, pp. 572–73 (Mondial 2008) (ISBN 978-1-59569-090-6)
  4. ↑ Löwenstein, Anna. The Stone City (1999) (ISBN 978-0-7544-0098-1)
  5. ↑ Löwenstein, Anna. Morto de artisto (2008) (ISBN 9789077066393)