25. September 2010 by admin.

Edgar F.s memoirs, translated into German by Marta F. biographer Manfred Fluegge, now out. Chapter 2 is devoted to LF and contains some insight into his personality, albeit through the eyes of Edgar as infant! Leseprobe here. Review by Adrian F. for IFS Newsletter here. Review by Hans-Christof Kraus for the scholarly journal Das Historisch-Politische Buch here.

Edgar F., circa 1939

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24. September 2010 by admin.

Villa Aurora reports:

""Tales from Hollywood", a dress rehearsal with the Odyssey Theater,

October 10,  2 p.m. Christopher Hampton's "Tales from Hollywood"

brings back to life historic characters such as Lion Feuchtwanger

and Bertolt Brecht. Anticipating its run at the Odyssey Theater

in West LA, our guests will have the privilege to watch

an exclusive dress rehearsal in the very rooms where these

charismatic figures actually gathered years ago." Program

includes readings of letters from Lion to Marta.

"CRITIC'S CHOICE! - L.A. Times  "Hampton's erudite and eloquent

period play about Bertolt Brecht, Thomas Mann and other talented

writers fleeing Hitler's Third Reich hired by the studios to

grind out hack sceenplays in the '30s and '40s supplies rich

ironies, absurdist comedy  and poignant drama."

- L.A. Times

Watch trailer.

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24. September 2010 by admin.

June 20th article in the LA Times quoting California historian Kevin Starr, who puts a sort of contemporary globalist perspective on the arrival of some of those who fled Nazism and ended up in Los Angeles: “Historian Kevin Starr calls the influx of 200,000 German and Austrian refugees — about 10,000 of whom settled around L.A. — “the most complete migration of artists and intellectuals in European history.”

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18. September 2010 by admin.

Roehler under fire for taking liberties with the actual facts of Ferdinand Marian’s biography, notes Deutsche Welle’s arts & culture show Kultur.21 (broadcast this evening).Wie frei darf ein Spielfilm Geschichte interpretieren? Vor allem, wenn es sich um NS-Geschichte handelt?, asks the show.

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17. September 2010 by admin.

The DDR effect still exerting itself, feels Manfred Fluegge, after another book signing for his Marta F. biography, this time in Suhl (Thuringia), draws a big crowd. Last week’s Freies Wort article reporting on the book signing describes LF as “ein schwieriger Kompagnon”…

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8. September 2010 by admin.

12 - 2 pm on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010 "Enemy Number One"

Lion Feuchtwanger and the Literature of Exile Panel

Discussion with Christopher Mlalazi (Feuchtwanger Fellow),

Michelle Gordon and Wolf Gruner (USC College),

Cornelius Schnauber (Director of USC Max Kade Institute)

 Moderation: Marje Schuetze-Coburn

Exiled German-Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger was

an outspoken critic of the Nazi Party; the Nazis

ordered his books burned

and declared him "Enemy Number One."

Today, censorship, repression and writing

in exile is still an issue in many countries

throughout the world. This issue will be the

topic of the Visions and Voices panel

discussion with Zimbabwean writer

Christopher Mlalazi at USC. Christopher is the

current Feuchtwanger Fellow at the Villa Aurora.

Report on the event here.

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