Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig (November 28, 1881, Vienna, Austria – February 23, 1942, Petrópolis, Brazil) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... is the 332nd day of the year (333rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... “Wien” redirects here. ... is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Petrópolis, also known as The Imperial City of Brazil, is a town in the state of Rio de Janeiro, about 60 km from the states capital. ... This article is about the literary concept. ... A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... For other uses, see Journalist (disambiguation). ... This article needs cleanup. ...

Life

Zweig was the son of Moritz Zweig, a wealthy Jewish textile manufacturer, and Ida (Brettauer) Zweig, the daughter of an Italian banking family. He studied philosophy and the history of literature, and in Vienna he was associated with the avant garde Young Vienna movement. Religion did not play a central role in his education. "My mother and father were Jewish only through accident of birth," Zweig said later in an interview. Although his essays were published in the Neue Freie Presse, whose literary editor was the Zionist leader Theodor Herzl, Zweig was not attracted to Herzl's Jewish nationalism. The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... For other uses, see Textile (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Bank (disambiguation). ... The philosopher Socrates about to take poison hemlock as ordered by the court. ... A stone tablet containing part of the Epic of Gilgamesh The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry which attempt to provide entertainment, enlightenment, or instruction to the reader/hearer/observer, as well as the development of the literary techniques used in the communication... The Love of Zero 35 mm film by Robert Florey 1927 Avant-garde (pronounced ) in French means front guard, advance guard, or vanguard. ... Young Vienna (Jung-Wien) was a society of fin de siècle writers who met in Viennas Café Griensteidl and other nearby coffeehouses from 1890 until 1897. ... Accident of birth is a phrase pointing out that no one has any control of, or responsibility for, the circumstances of their birth or parentage. ... Die Presse is an Austrian newspaper based in Vienna, Austria. ... Zionism is a political movement that supports a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel, where Jewish nationhood is thought to have evolved somewhere between 1200 BCE and late Second Temple times,[1][2] and where Jewish kingdoms existed up to the 2nd century CE. Zionism is... Theodor Herzl, in his middle age. ...

During the First World War, he took a pacifist stand together with French writer Romain Rolland, summoning intellectuals from all over the world to join them in active pacifism, which actually led to Romain Rolland being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Zweig remained pacifist all his life but also advocated the unification of Europe before the Nazis came, which has had some influence in the making of the European Union. As Rolland, he wrote many biographies; he described the one on Erasmus of Rotterdam as a concealed autobiography. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Pacifist may mean: an advocate of pacifism. ... Romain Rolland. ... An intellectual is one who tries to use his or her intellect to work, study, reflect, speculate on, or ask and answer questions with regard to a variety of different ideas. ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... For the idea of global unification, see globalization. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... National Socialism redirects here. ... Desiderius Erasmus in 1523 Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (also Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) (October 27, probably 1466 – July 12, 1536) was a Dutch humanist and theologian. ...

Zweig fled Austria in 1934 following Hitler's rise to power. He was famously defended by the composer Richard Strauss, who refused to remove Zweig's name (as librettist) from the posters for the premiere, in Dresden, of his opera Die schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman). This led to Hitler refusing to come to the premiere as planned and the opera being banned after three performances. Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ... This article is about the German composer of tone-poems and operas. ... Antonio Ghislanzoni, nineteenth century Italian librettist. ... Dresden (Sorbian: Drježdźany; etymologically from Old Sorbian Drežďany, meaning people of the riverside forest, Czech: ) is the capital city of the German Federal Free State of Saxony. ... Die schweigsame Frau (in English The Silent Woman) is an opera by Richard Strauss with libretto by Stefan Zweig after Ben Jonsons Epicoene, or the Silent Woman. ... Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ...

Zweig then lived in England (in Bath and London), before moving to the United States. In 1941 he went to Brazil, where in 1942 he and his second wife Lotte (née Charlotte Elisabeth Altmann) committed suicide together in Petrópolis, despairing at the future of Europe and its culture. "I think it better to conclude in good time and in erect bearing a life in which intellectual labor meant the purest joy and personal freedom the highest good on Earth," he wrote. His autobiography The World of Yesterday is a paean to the European culture he considered lost. Bath is a city in Somerset, England most famous for its baths fed by three hot springs. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see Suicide (disambiguation). ... Petrópolis, also known as The Imperial City of Brazil, is a town in the state of Rio de Janeiro, about 60 km from the states capital. ... World of Yesterday (original German title Die Welt von Gestern) is the autobiography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, written after he was exiled from Austria in 1934, but not published until 1942. ... Paean, in Homer, was the Greek physician of the gods. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Work

Stefan Zweig was a very well-known writer in the 1920s and 1930s. He is still famous in many countries, including Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland and Russia. However, his work has become less familiar to the English-reading public. Since the 1990s, there has been an effort on the part of several publishers to get Zweig back into print in English.

Zweig is most famous for his novels (notably The Royal Game, Amok and Confusion of Feelings) and biographies (notably Erasmus of Rotterdam and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles). At one time, his works were published in English under the pseudonym Stephen Branch (a translation of his real name), when anti-German sentiment was running high. His biography of Queen Marie-Antoinette was later adapted for a Hollywood movie starring the actress Norma Shearer in the title role. The Royal Game (Schachnovelle in the original German) is a novel by Austrian author Stefan Zweig first published in 1944, after the authors death. ... Desiderius Erasmus in 1523 Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (also Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) (October 27, probably 1466 – July 12, 1536) was a Dutch humanist and theologian. ... Mary I (popularly known as Mary, Queen of Scots: French: ); (December 8, 1542 – February 8, 1587) was Queen of Scots (the monarch of the Kingdom of Scotland) from December 14, 1542, to July 24, 1567. ... Marie Antoinette Maria Antonia Josefa Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 2, 1755 – October 16, 1793), known to history as Marie Antoinette (pronounced ), was born an Archduchess of Austria, and later became Queen of France. ... ... Edith Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 (some sources indicate 1900) - June 12, 1983) was an Academy Award-winning Canadian-born Hollywood actress. ...

There are important Zweig collections at the British Library in England and at State University of New York at Fredonia in the United States. The British Library's collection was donated to the library by its trustees in May 1986; it includes a wide range of items of surprising variety and rarity, among which Mozart's own Verzeichnüss, that is, the composer's own handwritten thematic catalog of his works. British Library main building, London The British Library (BL) is the national library of the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... The State University of New York at Fredonia (also known as SUNY Fredonia or Fredonia State) is a four-year liberal arts college located in Fredonia, New York. ... “Mozart” redirects here. ...

Bibliography

The dates mentioned below are the dates of first publication in German.

Note: This bibliography is still incomplete. Please refer to the German version for more information.

Fiction

• The Love of Erika Ewald, 1904 (Original title: Die Liebe der Erika Ewald)
• Burning Secret, 1913 (Original title: Brennendes Geheimnis)
• Letter from an Unknown Woman, 1922 (Original title: Brief einer Unbekannten) - novel
• Amok, 1922 (Original title: Amok) - novel, initially published with several others in Amok. Novellen einer Leidenschaft
• Fear, 1925 (Original title: Angst. Novelle)
• The Eyes of My Brother, Forever, 1925 (Original title: Die Augen des ewigen Bruders)
• The Invisible Collection, 1926 (Original title: Die Unsichtbare Sammlung) - THIS REFERENCE IS UNCERTAIN
• The Refugee, 1927 (Original title: Der Flüchtling. Episode vom Genfer See).
• Confusion of Feelings or Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. Von D, 1927 (Original title: Verwirrung der Gefühle) - novel initially published in the volume Verwirrung der Gefühle: Drei Novellen
• Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman, 1927 (Original title: Vierundzwanzig Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau) - novel initially published in the volume Verwirrung der Gefühle: Drei Novellen
• Short stories, 1930 (Original title: Kleine Chronik. Vier Erzählungen) - includes Buchmendel
• Collected Stories, 1936 (Original title: Gesammelte Erzählungen) - two volumes of short stories:
  1. The Chains (Original title: Die Kette)
  2. Kaleidoscope (Original title: Kaleidoskop). Includes: Casual Knowledge of a Craft, Leporella, Fear, Burning Secret, Summer Novella, The Governess, Buchmendel, The Refugee, The Invisible Collection, Fantastic Night and Moonbeam Alley
• Beware of Pity, 1939 (Original title: Ungeduld des Herzens)
• The Royal Game or Chess Story, 1943 (Original title: Schachnovelle) - novel written in 1942, published posthumously
• The Intoxication of Metamorphosis, 1982 (Original title: Rausch der Verwandlung. Roman aus dem Nachlaß) - unfinished novel, published posthumously

Letter From An Unknown Woman (Brief einer Unbekannten) is a novel authored by Stefan Zweig, which tells the story of a writer who, while reading a letter written by a woman he does not remember, gets glimpses into her life story. ... The Royal Game (Schachnovelle in the original German) is a novel by Austrian author Stefan Zweig first published in 1944, after the authors death. ...

Biographies

• Emile Verhaeren, 1910
• Three Masters: Balzac, Dickens, Dostoeffsky, 1920 (Original title: Drei Meister. Balzac – Dickens – Dostojewski)
• Romain Rolland. The Man and His Works, 1921 (Original title: Romain Rolland. Der Mann und das Werk)
• Nietzsche, 1925 (Originally published in the volume titled: Der Kampf mit dem Dämon. Hölderlin – Kleist – Nietzsche)
• Adepts in Self-Portraiture: Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy, 1928 (Original title: Drei Dichter ihres Lebens. Casanova – Stendhal – Tolstoi)
• Joseph Fouché, 1929
• Mental Healers: Franz Mesmer, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, 1932 (Original title: Die Heilung durch den Geist. Mesmer, Mary Baker-Eddy, Freud)
• Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman, 1932 (Original title: Marie Antoinette. Bildnis eines mittleren Charakters)
• Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1934 (Original title: Triumph und Tragik des Erasmus von Rotterdam)
• Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles or The Queen of Scots, 1935 (Original title: Maria Stuart)
• The Right to Heresy: Castellio against Calvin, 1936 (Original title: Castellio gegen Calvin oder Ein Gewissen gegen die Gewalt)
• Conqueror of the Seas: The Story of Magellan, 1938 (Original title: Magellan. Der Mann und seine Tat)
• Amerigo, 1944 (Original title: Amerigo. Geschichte eines historischen Irrtums) - written in 1942, published posthumously

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Plays

• Tersites, 1907 (Original title: Tersites)
• ?English name?, 1912 (Original title: Das Haus am Meer)
• Jeremiah, 1917 (Original title: Jeremies)

Books on Stefan Zweig

• Elizabeth Allday, Stefan Zweig: A Critical Biography, J. Philip O'Hara, Inc., Chicago, 1972
• Donald A. Prater, European of Yesterday: A Biography of Stefan Zweig, Holes and Meier Publ., rev. ed., 2003
• Friderika Zweig, Stefan Zweig, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1946 - an account of his life by his first wife

External links

• Zweig Collection at the British Library
• Zweig collection at the Daniel A. Reed Library, Fredonia College, SUNY
• StefanZweig.org
• StefanZweig.de
• PushkinPress.com
• [1] A lengthy review of Beware of Pity June 2006