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Lion Feuchtwanger
Lion Feuchtwanger was a German Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht.
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Born 7 July 1884 · Died 21 December 1958 · Q77024
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 3 entries
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Lion Feuchtwanger to Accept Award from East German Government
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Bayerischer Rundfunk: 28.08.2025 Lion Feuchtwanger - Ein Schicksal, drei Bibliotheken
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Fr: 100 Jahre „Jud Süß“ von Lion Feuchtwanger – Der Jude und das Zerrbild
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2024· 3 entries
Süddeutsche Zeitung: Literaturhaus München: Was Lion Feuchtwanger und Oskar Maria Graf verband
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Süddeutsche Zeitung: Dieter Langewiesche: Rede zum Lion-Feuchtwanger-Preis
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ZEIT: Auszeichnung: Lion-Feuchtwanger-Preis für Historiker Dieter Langewiesche
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2023· 3 entries
Fr: Essays von Lion Feuchtwanger – „Dieser erstaunliche Mangel an Sachlichkeit“
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welt.de: Lion Feuchtwanger: „Ich bin deutsch, und mein Herz schlägt jüdisch“
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Bayerischer Rundfunk: Interview mit Lion Feuchtwanger Lion Feuchtwanger: Weit weg von München
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2022· 1 entry
The novel was rediscovered, and a new version of the English translation of The Oppermanns was released, with an introduction by Joshua Cohen, who also noted the lack of Feuchtwanger's popularity in English-speaking coun
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2018· 1 entry
Deutsche Welle put the novel in their "100 German Must-Reads" list, called it "Feuchtwanger's most recognized novel" and wrote that today it is "considered one of the most important literary works documenting the downfal
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2009· 1 entry
SRF: Lion Feuchtwanger
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1987· 1 entry
Marta Feuchtwanger donated her husband's papers, photos and personal library to the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, housed within the Special Collections of the Doheny Memorial Library at the University of Southern Califo
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1983· 1 entry
That "no single historical or fictional work has more tellingly or insightfully depicted the relentless disintegration of German humanism, the insidious manner in which Nazism began to permeate the fabric of German socie
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1958· 1 entry
Died 1958-12-21.
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded Literary Prize of the State Capital of Munich (1957).
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1953· 1 entry
Feuchtwanger won the National Prize of East Germany first Class for art and literature
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1947· 1 entry
Wrote a play about the Salem Witch Trials, Wahn oder der Teufel in Boston (Delusion, or The Devil in Boston), thus anticipating the theme of The Crucible (1953) by Arthur Miller; Wahn premiered in Germany in 1949
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1944· 1 entry
Cofounded the publishing house Aurora-Verlag in New York City
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1943· 1 entry
Feuchtwanger bought Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades, California; he continued to write there until his death in 1958
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1941· 1 entry
When he published a memoir of his internment, The Devil in France (Der Teufel in Frankreich)
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1940· 3 entries
Finished Wartesaal with the third novel, Exil (translated into English as Paris Gazette)
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Portrays Oppenheimer as an evil character
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Feuchtwanger was captured and again imprisoned at Les Milles
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1939· 2 entries
Feuchtwanger was interned for a few weeks in Camp des Milles
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“Dr and Mrs Dyson, I repeat, are particularly nice people. But the other people are very nice too … Come as soon as possible. Until then, all the best, 1,000 kisses. Your Bürschi.”
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1936· 1 entry
Still in Sanary, he wrote The Pretender (Der falsche Nero), in which he compared the Roman upstart Terentius Maximus, who had claimed to be Nero, with Hitler
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1934· 1 entry
Under the direction of fellow German expatriate Lothar Mendes with one of Germany's greatest actors, also a refugee from Nazi persecution, Conrad Veidt: Jew Süss
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1933· 5 entries
Which would become one of his best-known books
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Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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“I don’t know whether he actually advised him against it, but he certainly didn’t want my uncle to put himself in even more danger. It was a matter of luck that Lion was on a reading tour in America when Hitler became Reich chancellor in 1933. Fortunately, the German ambassador there was not a Nazi. He realised immediately that my uncle couldn’t go back to Germany; he would have been killed.”
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Feuchtwanger lived in Sanary-sur-Mer
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While Feuchtwanger was on tour, his house was ransacked by government agents who stole or destroyed many items from his extensive library, including invaluable manuscripts of some of his projected works (one of the chara
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1930· 3 entries
Feuchtwanger wrote his first socio-political novel Erfolg (Success), based on the events of Beer Hall Putsch, as his reaction on the impending threat of Nazism; the novel would become the first entry in Wartesaal trilogy
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And The Oppermanns in 1933, he became a prominent spokesman in opposition to the Third Reich
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Feuchtwanger published Erfolg (Success), a fictionalized account of the rise and fall of the Nazi Party (in 1930, he considered it a thing of the past) during the inflation era
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1925· 2 entries
And then to a large villa in Grunewald in 1932
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When his first popular novel, Jud Süß (Jew Suss), appeared
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1918· 1 entry
To Die Weltbühne) for which Feuchtwanger continued to write
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1916· 1 entry
Published a play based on the story of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, which premiered in 1917, but Feuchtwanger withdrew it a couple of years later as he was dissatisfied with it
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1914· 1 entry
Feuchtwanger served in the German military (November 1914), but was released early for health reasons
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1912· 1 entry
Married a Jewish merchant's daughter, Marta Loeffler
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1908· 1 entry
(no connection to the post-WWII magazine of the same name)
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1907· 1 entry
Under Franz Muncker, with a study of Heinrich Heine's unfinished 1840 novel The Rabbi of Bacharach
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1903· 1 entry
In Munich, he passed his Abitur examinations at an elite school, the Wilhelmsgymnasium
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1884· 2 entries
Born 1884-07-07.
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To Orthodox Jewish margarine manufacturer Sigmund Feuchtwanger and his wife, Johanna (née Bodenheimer)
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