Non-fiction and Biography
“Feuchtwanger ohne Filter.” Klaus Modick, author of Sunset. Lion Feuchtwanger’s diaries, recently published by Aufbau Verlag, have been reviewed in a very broad range of mainstream media — testimony to the sheer breadth of interest in his writings: Die Welt … Continue reading
Hitler, My Neighbor, Memories of a Jewish Childhood, 1929-1939, by Lion Feuchtwanger’s nephew Edgar Feuchtwanger, was published by Other Press (New York) in November 2017, with accompanying excerpts in Time (online) and People (online). Covering the period 1929-39, the book is … Continue reading
On the 80th anniversary of Lion Feuchtwanger’s 1937 visit to Moscow, and to accompany publication of Professor Anne Hartmann’s new book, a conference entitled ‘Die revolutionäre Versuchung. Reiseberichte aus dem Exil: Auf nach Moskau! Der Fall Lion Feuchtwanger‘ was held at … Continue reading
The 8th Conference of the International Feuchtwanger Society (proceedings: Feuchtwanger und die Erinnerungskultur in Frankreich (Bern: Peter Lang, 2020)) was held in Paris in October 2017. Lion Feuchtwanger’s account of his internment at the Les Milles camp near Aix-en-Provence, The … Continue reading
Lion Feuchtwanger’s private library of historic books, used as primary sources for many of his novels, was well to the fore in a recent Villa Aurora Los Angeles event about his secretary Hilde Waldo and his work methods. The private … Continue reading
Lion Feuchtwanger’s immediate family in Germany Lion Feuchtwanger’s brother Ludwig, one of the most important authors of works on German Jewish identity between the wars, was the director of academic publishing house Duncker und Humblot until 1936, at which point … Continue reading
“Nine-year-old Edgar was strolling down the street in pre-war Munich when he glanced into a nearby garden. There, relaxing in a deckchair and dozing in the sun, he saw a neighbour who lived directly opposite him. Edgar, who was Jewish, … Continue reading
Regerstrasse 8, Lion Feuchtwanger’s former home in Berlin, now has a new and more visible commemorative plaque mounted on the front wall of the house. The existing plaque on the pavement has been left in place. The Nazis’ expropriation of … Continue reading
Ken Burns and Artemis Joukowsky’s film Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War, with Tom Hanks as the voice of Waitstill Sharp, was previewed at the White House as part of the ongoing refugee debate, and at the US Holocaust Memorial … Continue reading
The Lion Feuchtwanger biography by Wilhelm von Sternburg has been republished with new material. The jacket photo is one of a series taken by renowned portrait photographer of the day E.O. Hoppé at Lion Feuchtwanger’s rented apartment at Hohenzollerndamm 34 … Continue reading