Biography
Vilar's parents were German-Jewish emigrants. They separated when she was 3 years old.
In 1960 she went to West Germany on scholarship, after studying medicine in the University of Buenos Aires, to continue her studies in psychology and sociology. She worked as a doctor in a Bavarian hospital for a year, and has also been a translator, saleswoman, assembly-line worker in a thermometer factory, shoe model, and secretary.
Esther married in 1961 the German author Klaus Wagn for two years and they had a son called Martin, in 1964. She later had a divorce, but claimed: "I didn't break up with the man, just with marriage as an institution".
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