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Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig was an Austrian writer. At the height of his literary career in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world.
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culture · Austrian writer (1881–1942) · writer · translator · journalist · playwright · poet · literary critic · historian · biographer · novelist · prose writer · also Stefan Zweig, S. Zweig, Zweig
Born 28 November 1881 · Died 23 February 1942 · Q78491
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2026· 3 entries
NEWS.am: In Austria, they want to buy back former writer Stefan Zweig’s villa after the owner decided to put it up for sale
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The Guardian: Austrian campaign aims to save writer Stefan Zweig’s Salzburg villa after Porsche tunnel row
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2024· 1 entry
Yahoo: Stefan Zweig’s European utopia
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2017· 2 entries
The Washington Post: ‘Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe’: Portrait of a writer in exile
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Jewish Journal: In exile, writer Stefan Zweig bids ‘Farewell to Europe’
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2002· 1 entry
“Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman”
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1948· 1 entry
By Max Ophüls), novels (Ungeduld des Herzens 1939, tr
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1945· 1 entry
(Original title: Legenden – published also as Jewish Legends with "Buchmendel" instead of "The Dissimilar Doubles"):
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1942· 2 entries
Died 1942-02-23.
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Published the day before he died ISBN 4-87187-857-0
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1940· 2 entries
As The Tide of Fortune: Twelve Historical Miniatures; retranslated in 2013 by Anthea Bell as Shooting Stars: Ten Historical Miniatures
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And his second wife crossed the Atlantic to the United States, settling in New York City
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1934· 4 entries
As a result of the Nazi Party's rise in Germany and the establishment of the Ständestaat regime in Austria, Zweig emigrated to England and then, in 1940, moved briefly to New York and then to Brazil, where he settled
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Includes some of those just listed — some with differently translated titles — plus others
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Career landmark: emigration.
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After Hitler's rise to power in Germany, and following the establishment of the Austrofascist political regime known as the Ständestaat, Zweig left Austria for England, living first in London, and later in Bath, where he
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1933· 2 entries
As The Burning Secret directed by Robert Siodmak
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Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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1919· 1 entry
By a pirated edition of The Burning Secret attributed to "Steven Branch", a literal translation of his name and apparently a concession to lingering anti-German sentiment
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1914· 1 entry
Zweig's foreword to The World of Yesterday
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1904· 1 entry
Earned a doctoral degree with a thesis on "The Philosophy of Hippolyte Taine"
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1881· 1 entry
Born 1881-11-28.
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