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An Austrian from Europe |
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Stefan Zweig |
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The following text is in English.
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Ausstellung/Exhibition
Documentation of the exhib. will be
continued throughout Feb.97 to
bring you the whole event.
Including photographs of the
opening ceremony by: The Mayor
of Bath & The Mayor
of Salzburg.
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den Text gibt es auch
in Deutscher Ubersetzung.
see the exhibition
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Exhibition Feb. 1997
Bath Royal Literary &
Scientific Institution
, Queen
Square, BATH.UK.
+44 (01225) 312084
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In the study.
The Austrian author,
Stefan Zweig.
1881-1942
All images taken from
the official
exhibition leaflet.
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Stefan Zweig
More than fifty years after his death the great
Austrian writer, the Viennese Jew Stefan Zweig
(1881-1942), is still a very much read author.
His novels and stories, essays analysing literature,
encompassing biographies on Maria Antoinette,
Maria Stuart and Erasmus of Rotterdam,
"Sternstunden der Menschheit" ("The tide of
fortune: 12 historical miniatures") and his
memories in "Die Welt von gestern" ("The world
of yesterday") constitute an essential part of
German speaking literature in the first half of the
century. His world-wide renown lasts up to this day.
Less known is the fact that all his life Zweig was
anxious to contribute to the communication
between nations, cultures and literatures. Romain
Rolland called Zweig "one of these European
geniuses which our epoch needs so urgently".
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Stefan Zweig was born in Vienna 1881
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1914 - in the war archives |
Stefan Zweig lived in the town of Salzburg from
1919-1934. From here he went into exile to
London and Bath, later on to the USA and
Brazil, where he committed suicide in 1942. This
exhibition starting from Salzburg with its roughly
120 photographs and 80 documents reveals the
life and opus to the great humanist Stefan Zweig
on his way to establishing a "European republic
of the mind".
Stefan Zweig was more than just an important
writer who slowly grew to world acclaim: he was
a European institution. Europe existed in him,
from the beginning, as a single unit, a cultural
fusion, beyond all language and national frontiers
that he did not acknowledge. In all of his stages
and development as critic, translator and
historian Stefan Zweig strove for one thing, to
bring into being and to maintain that which lived
within him, the cultural fusion of Europe; to make
clear and to further this aim, as a "public agent"
and a dispenser of spiritual benefits.
Berthold Viertel, 1942.
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Bath Royal Literary And Scientific Institution
Stefan Zweig Exhibition
The BRLSI will host an internationally acclaimed
exhibition on the celebrated Austrian - born
writer Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) as part of the
Bath Literature Festival in 1997. For about a
year in 1939-1940 Zweig found a welcome
refuge from fascism in Bath. Initially he lived at
Lansdown Lodge in Lansdown Road but,
following his marriage to his second wife at Bath
Register Office (6th September 1939), he moved
to a house on Lyncombe Hill. In March 1940 he
and his wife became naturalized British subjects.
While in Bath Zweig worked on his evocative
autobiographical memoir 'The World of
Yesterday' and his biography of Balzac.
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The philosophy student
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The exhibition has been sent to Frankfurt, Zurich,
and Sao Paulo, but Bath will be its sole venue in
the United Kingdom. It will be opened on 10th
February by the Deputy-Mayor of Salzburg and
the Deputy-Mayor of Bath. A plaque
commemorating Zweig's stay in Bath will be
dedicated at "Rosemount", the house which
Zweig and his wife bought in the city.
To mark the end of the exhibition Dr. Donald
Prater (Switzerland), the author of a definitive
biography of Zweig, will deliver the Stefan Zweig
Lecture on 1st March 1997.
The BRLSI gratefully acknowledges the support
of the exhibition's sponsors: The City of
Salzburg, the Austrian Cultural Institute, and
Austrian Airlines. The Stefan Zweig Lecture is
sponsored by Waterstone's Books.
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death mask
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The Stefan Zweig Exhibition was first held in Salzburg in 1992
Since then a special adapted exhibition has travelled to:
Buchmesse in Frankfurt, Germany in 1995
Rathaus in Dresden, Germany
Literaturhaus in Zurich, Switzerland
Kurhaus in Merano, Italy
Centre Culturale in Sau Paulo, Brazil
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution in Bath, United Kingdom.
The Exhibition will also be shown in
Budapest, Cracow, New York and many other cities.
Initial Concept (Konzept)
Dr. Klemens Ren Oldner
Hildemar Holl
Designed (Gestaltung)
Peter Karlhuber
If you are interested in renting the Exhibition please contact:
Kulturamt, Mozartplatz 5, Salzburg, Austria
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