Irena Veisaitė, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Irena Veisaitė

Lithuanian academic

Date of Birth: 09-Feb-1928

Place of Birth: Kaunas, Kaunas County

Profession: writer, author, university teacher

Nationality: Lithuania

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Irena Veisaite (born 9 January 1928, in Kaunas) is a Lithuanian theatre scholar, intellectual and human rights activist. Veisaite is a Lithuanian Jew and survived the Holocaust.
She earned a doctorate in Leningrad in 1963 with a dissertation on the poetry of Heinrich Heine, and was a lecturer at the teacher's college in Vilnius from 1953 to 1997.
She has also been head of the Thomas Mann Cultural Centre in Nida, Lithuania.
She was awarded the Goethe Medal in 2012 for her contribution to the cultural exchange between Germany and Lithuania.She is the long-term President of the Open Society in Lithuania Foundation. She is also known for addressing communism in her work, and has said in an interview with Deutsche Welle that "the Soviets were very, very bad.
Different from the Nazis, but not better."