The 9th Conference of the International Feuchtwanger Society (Lion Feuchtwanger und München: Der junge Feuchtwanger—Dramatiker, Theaterkritiker, früher Romanautor) was held in Munich from 17th-20th October 2019. The conference was covered by the Süddeutsche Zeitung on 21st October 2019 and in … Continue reading

The quality of Lion Feuchtwanger’s works continues to be the subject of ongoing discussion, not just among academics but also in mainstream media. Literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki included Lion Feuchtwanger’s evocative Neue Sachlichkeit short story Höhenflugrekord in his Der Kanon–Erzählungen. … Continue reading

This 2009 Spiegel article and an earlier piece in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung provide insight into the Nobel Prize Committee’s deliberations when Lion Feuchtwanger was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930 following the publication of Erfolg. Continue reading