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
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
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
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
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
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
International Feuchtwanger Society President and bestselling novelist Tanja Kinkel’s article ‘Villa Aurora’ is available from the Literatur in Bayern website. “[…] I moved into Marta Feuchtwanger’s old room and for three months was lucky enough to live in the paradise … Continue reading
A conference entitled ‘Zwischen ‘Erfolg’ und ‘Exil’. Lion Feuchtwanger und München‘, organized by City of Munich archivist Dr. Andreas Heusler, was held in Munich in July 2015. The conference coincided with the publication of Dr. Heusler’s major new biography. Inter … 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
Manfred Flügge‘s Muse des Exils, Das Leben der Malerin Eva Herrmann contains valuable and sensitive insights into Lion Feuchtwanger’s sometimes stormy relationship with artist Eva Herrmann (above, left). Die Welt book of the week Review in Der Tagesspiegel Manfred Flügge’s … Continue reading