23. August 2011 by admin.

Definitive version of the IFS 2011 program here.

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27. June 2011 by admin.

Events afoot in Worms:

Reviewed in the Sueddeutsche here. Fritz Knilli’s view of the proceedings. The open-air production will reopen in summer 2012.

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7. June 2011 by admin.

Robert Bingham writes:”Simon Wiesenthal Center video tribute to Hiram (Harry) Bingham IV on March 28, 2011. The film shows the Nazis on the march in Europe and how U.S. Vice-Consul Harry Bingham rose to the dangerous occasion to save lives. Harry Bingham was an American WWII diplomat rescuer who defied his government to save many refugees (among them Lion F.) from the Holocaust while he was posted in Marseilles during 1940-1941, and who received the Medal of Valor posthumously from the Center at the annual Awards Dinner on March 28, 2011 in NYC, where the film was first shown.”The video includes a  clip about Lion.

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20. May 2011 by admin.

LF inter alia at the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum at its new site (Beverly and Fairfax):

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20. May 2011 by admin.

Arrival of the 2011 Feuchtwanger Fellow:

Villa Aurora Director Imogen von Tannenberg, Amir Cheheltan, Shala Cheheltan, and USC Exile Studies Librarian Michaela Ullmann at a recent reception

Iranian writer Amir Hassan Cheheltan has arrived in Los Angeles as the 2011 Feuchtwanger Fellow.

Born in Tehran, Cheheltan is a novelist and short story writer whose work has been subject to restrictions and rewritings. Cheheltan has survived two attempts on his life, and in 1999 he fled Iran amid a wave of violence against the nation’s intellectuals. Two years later, he returned to Tehran and has since continued publishing his work. His most recent book, Tehran, Revolution Street, was published in 2009. His upcoming book Killing American in Tehran will be published this August.

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17. May 2011 by admin.

12350 Feuchtwanger, a main-belt asteroid named after LF in 1993 by the astronomer F. Borngen (Karl Schwarzschild Observatory, Thuringia).

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4. March 2011 by admin.

Klaus Modick reading from his new LF novel, published last week. Shortlisted for a Wilhelm Raabe Literaturpreis.

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12. February 2011 by admin.

Filmmaker Herb Krill writes:

"Liebe Freunde und Kollegen,

der Fernsehsender 3sat wiederholt den Dokumentarfilm

FEUCHTWANGER LEBT! zu folgenden Zeiten:

16.Februar 2011, 13:15

22.Februar 2011, 5.30 Achtung! zwar ist der Sendetag

der 22., doch in Wirklichkeit handelt es sich bereits

um den 23.2. (doch glaube ich ohnehin nicht,

daß um diese Zeit jemand zusehen wird)

3sat will also provide a video stream of the programs

for seven days after broadcast,

so there is a good chance that the

documentary can also be seen online from 2/16

through the beginning of March. Go to

www.3sat.de and look up “Mediathek”

Herzliche Grüße,  Herbert"

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8. February 2011 by admin.

Harold von Hofe (1912-2011)

(with Feuchtwanger Librarian Marje Schuetze-Coburn in 1995)

Personal friend of Lion and Marta, outstanding Doktorvater to Adrian F., co-initiator of the Villa Aurora program, and warm-hearted, engaging scholar.  Condolences to his family. In Memoriam

Here’s Dan Knapp’s article from the USC News website:

In Memoriam: Harold von Hofe, 98

Harold von Hofe, professor emeritus of German and former director of the Feuchtwanger Institute for Exile Studies at USC, died Feb. 3 at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 98.

The son of German musicians who immigrated to the United States at the turn of the 20th century, von Hofe was born in Plainsfield, N.J., on April 23, 1912.

In 1939 — after earning a bachelor’s degree from New York University and a doctorate from Northwestern University — von Hofe relocated to Los Angeles and took a job teaching German at USC.

He became a professor and served as chair of USC’s German department from 1945-1956 (as well as from 1963-68 and 1971-74). Von Hofe’s scholarly work focused largely on the work of writers who fled Germany for Southern California during the Holocaust.

“Dr. von Hofe was an eminent scholar in the field of German exile studies,” said USC Libraries’ senior associate dean Marje Schuetze-Coburn, a longtime friend and colleague. “His expertise built on the relationships he developed with members of the German émigré community in Los Angeles during World War II.”

From 1959 to 1963, von Hofe served as chair of the USC Division of Humanities.

Von Hofe played a large role in acquiring one of USC’s most prized scholarly research collections - the library of German-Jewish author Lion Feuchtwanger.

In the early 1940s, the then-associate professor visited Feuchtwanger’s Pacific Palisades home, Villa Aurora, and became friends with the author (Jud Süss) and his wife, Marta.

Following Feuchtwanger’s death in 1958, Von Hofe convinced Marta that USC would be the ideal place to preserve her husband’s collection of more than 30,000 volumes that include Hebrew, Greek and Latin classics; a pre-Luther translation of the Bible; German and German-exile literature; books and materials relating to the French Revolution; rare first editions and secondary works by authors such as Luther, Kant, Goethe, Schiller, Voltaire and Rousseau; and a collection of texts and translations — including a 1493 Florentine edition — of works by first-century Jewish historian Josephus Flavius.

“Over the decades, Dr. von Hofe became a close colleague of — and adviser to — Marta Feuchtwanger. Following her death in 1987, he served as executor of her estate,” said Schuetze-Coburn, who met von Hofe in 1989 when she became the Feuchtwanger librarian and archivist. “Dr. von Hofe dedicated the latter part of his career to publishing Lion Feuchtwanger’s extensive correspondence, thereby making these rich primary source materials available to scholars.”

“Thanks to Dr. von Hofe’s efforts, Lion Feuchtwanger, his library and his writings have been preserved for future generations,” Schuetze-Coburn added.

Among von Hofe’s books: A German Sketchbook (co-authored with Ludwig Marcuse, 1979), Faust: Leben, Legende und Literatur (1965) and Eine Reise durch Deutschland (1960), among dozens of others. He also has edited, annotated and published numerous volumes of Feuchtwanger’s correspondence.

Von Hofe is survived by two sons, Hal and Eric von Hofe, six grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Addendum: Catalogue of Harold’s archival collection re LF.

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12. January 2011 by admin.

[Addendum]

Unveiling ceremony

The new plaque

P.E.N.-Zentrum erinnert an Exilautoren in Sanary

Es war ein Paradies wider Willen, in dem sich deutsche und österreichische Schriftsteller und Maler auf der Flucht vor den Nazis in Sicherheit wähnten: Das südfranzösische Fischerdorf Sanary-sur-Mer am Mittelmeer bot bis zu Kriegsbeginn Dutzenden Künstlern eine vorübergehende Bleibe. Ob Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht oder Lion Feuchtwanger - sie alle lebten in Sanary entweder für einige Wochen oder Jahre. Nun will der zu einer Stadt ausgewachsene Ort an die berühmten Gäste erinnern. Eine Delegation des Deutschen P.E.N. Zentrums wird zur Enthüllung einer großen Plakette am 28. Januar nach Sanary fahren, kündigte Generalsekretär Herbert Wiesner in Berlin an. In Sanary sind Lesungen und Diskussionen geplant. Das Auswärtige Amt steuert 3500 Euro bei, die Plakette wird von der französischen Stadt bezahlt.

Report on the event

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