Posts with content relating to the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich
“Few novels strike such a stark note of warning, or capture with such accuracy the perilous years of the rise of a dictatorship.” Financial Times “A timely reissue of an anti-fascist classic.” Irish Times The Oppermanns, in a comprehensively updated … Continue reading
Feuchtwanger and Judaism, History, Imagination, Exile, containing several articles in English about the Jewish themes that ran through Lion Feuchtwanger’s life, works and worlds, has been published by Peter Lang (Bern). The volume focusses on Lion Feuchtwanger’s approaches to Jewish … Continue reading
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
For 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 … Continue reading
“Lion Feuchtwangers Roman Exil im nostalgischen Dreissigerjahre-Look”. Süddeutsche Zeitung A theatrical production of Exil was staged at Munich Kammerspiele in November 2017, with an accompanying reading of correspondence between Lion Feuchtwanger and fellow exiled German Jewish author Arnold Zweig. For … 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
The 8th Conference of the International Feuchtwanger Society (proceedings: Feuchtwanger und die Erinnerungskultur in Frankreich (Bern: Peter Lang, 2020)) was held in Paris from 11th-14th October 2017. Lion Feuchtwanger’s account of his internment at the Les Milles camp near Aix-en-Provence, … 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
The Drei Masken Verlag first edition of Jud Süss (1925) is prominently displayed in the Library of Burned and Banned Books at the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism. It is easily identifiable by its yellow jacket, … 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