25. April 2009 by admin.

Account of Orson Welles’s stage debut as the Duke in Jew Süss (the Ashley Dukes version), from David Thomson, Rosebud. The Story of Orson Welles, New York 1996. Notwithstanding questions of cinema history, for those of us of a certain age who grew up in England, Welles resides in memory as the fat bloke from the sherry commercials.

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15. April 2009 by admin.

The program for the International Feuchtwanger Society conference 2009 in Vienna (6-9th May).

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14. April 2009 by admin.

Opening on April 23, 2009:

Publishing in Exile: German-Language Literaturein the US in the 1940sThe exhibit features the seven most prominent publishers who issuedGerman-language literary texts in the United States between 1940 and 1950.Gottfried Bermann-Fischer founded L.B. Fischer Corporation with FritzLandshoff, who had published many exiled authors in his Querido Verlag inAmsterdam before he too was forced to leave Europe. Wieland Herzfelde formedthe only author-run press among the exiles, Aurora Verlag. Art dealer andpublisher Otto Kallir reestablished his small Viennese house,Johannespresse, in Manhattan, mainly to publish the work of his friend andfellow exile, the poet Richard Beer-Hofmann. On the West Coast, ErnstGottlieb and Felix Guggenheim joined together as Pazifische Presse toproduce deluxe editions of German fiction. Master of internationalmodernism, Kurt Wolff, together with his French partner, Jacques Schiffrin,started Pantheon Books, which went on to have an illustrious history inAmerican publishing. Against the odds, these émigrés brought out new booksby Bertolt Brecht, Hermann Broch, Alfred Döblin, Lion Feuchtwanger, OskarMaria Graf, Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Anna Seghers, Franz Werfel, and ArnoldZweig, among others, as well as reissuing classics by Hölderlin, Goethe,Hauptmann, and Rilke—all in the original language.Displayed are rare photos, unique manuscripts, letters, and archivalmaterial - amongst them materials from the Lion Feuchtwanger Archive andFelix Guggenheim Collection located in the Department of Special Collectionsat the USC Libraries.For more information visit: http://www.lbi.org/exhibitions.html

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