ZWEIG, STEFAN

shtĕfˈän, 1881–1942, Austrian biographer, poet, and novelist. Born in Vienna of a well-to-do Jewish family, he was part of the humanitarian, pan-European cultural circle that included Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss. Zweig's first works were poetry and a poetic drama, Jeremias (1917, tr. 1929), which expressed his passionately antiwar feelings. Under National Socialism he went into exile in 1934, emigrating first to England. In 1941 he and his second wife went to Brazil, where they committed suicide. Zweig's best-known works of fiction are Ungeduld des Herzens (1938, tr. Beware of Pity, 1939) and Schachnovelle (1944, tr. The Royal Game, 1944), but his most outstanding accomplishments were his many biographies, which were based on psychological interpretation. The subjects of these include Marie Antoinette, Erasmus, Mary Queen of Scots, Magellan, Balzac, and Verlaine. Zweig's historical perception is best evident in Sternstunden der Menschheit (1928, tr. The Tide of Fortune, 1940).

See his autobiography, The World of Yesterday (1943); biographies by D. A. Prater (1972) and E. Allday (1972).

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Brazil, Land of the Future
Book by Stefan Zweig, St. Andrew James; The Viking press, 1941
Subjects: Brazil--Description And Travel, Brazil--History
STEFAN ZWEIG BRAZIL LAND OF THE FUTURE Translated by St. Andrew James THE VIKING PRESS NEW YORK 1941
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German Men of Letters - Vol. 2
Book by Alex Natan; Oswald Wolff, 1963
Subjects: Authors, German, German Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, German Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism
...London, 1948. III. WORKS ON ZWEIG FRIEDERIKE MARIA ZWEIG. Stefan Zweig . London, 1946. The German edition was published in 1946 with the title, Stefan Zweig, wie ich ihn erlebte . A valuable appreciation by...
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Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature
Book by Horatio Smith; Columbia university press, 1947
Subjects: Authors, European--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, European Literature--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography, European Literature--Dictionaries
Zweig, Stefan 1881-1942, Austrian biographer, novelist...deeper conception of his own work came to Zweig in his personal friendship with the Belgian...translating and propagating their work. Meanwhile Zweig was able to follow the urgings of his insatiable...
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Modern German Literature, 1880-1950
Book by Jethro Bithell; Methuen, 1959
Subjects: German Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, German Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism
...at the rim of the work by which Stefan Zweig has won his public all over the...cannot give herself wholly. In 1935 Stefan Zweig emigrated to England, where he...death by his first wife, Friderike Zweig: Stefan Zweig wie ich ihn erlebte 194 7...
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Journalistic Stories: Feuilletons
Book by Theodor Herzl, Henry Regensteiner; Cornwall Books, 2002
Subjects: Herzl, Theodor--1860-1904
Theodor Herzl and Stefan Zweig: Stefan Zweigs Recollections ARTHUR SCHNITZLER, WRITING THEODOR HERZL...tone in which you have spoken to me. i Years later (in 1929) Stefan Zweig, a well-known poet, play- wright, and author of biographies...
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Suicide in the Fiction of Georges Bernanos and Stefan Zweig: The Death of Two Female Adolescents
Journal article by Astrid Heyer; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 56, 2007
Subjects: Bernanos, Georges--Criticism and interpretation, Bernanos, Georges--Works, Suicide--Portrayals, The Star of Satan (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Ungeduld des Herzens (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Zweig, Stefan--Criticism and interpretation, Zweig, Stefan--Works
...Fiction of Georges Bernanos and Stefan Zweig: The Death of Two Female Adolescents...Encounter of Georges Bernanos and Stefan Zweig The most voluntary death is the...1888-1948), and the Austrian Stefan Zweig (1881-1942). Both men died...
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Alfons Petzold - Stefan Zweig: Briefwechsel
Journal article by Richard Sheppard; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 29, 1999
Subjects: Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
Alfons Petzold - Stefan Zweig: Briefwechsel. by Richard Sheppard Edited by David Turner (Austrian...and this carefully researched edition documents the role which Stefan Zweig played in helping him to do so. The correspondence begins in either...
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Lost Zweig
Journal article by David William Foster; Chasqui, Vol. 33, 2004
Subjects: Lost Zweig (Pel�cula)
...of the Austrian intellectual, Stefan Zweig, who, along with his wife Lotte...is most interesting about Lost Zweig, as a Brazilian film (even if...less important than the story of Stefan Zweig--a story that I would insist...
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Collecting on Moral Debts: Reparations for the Holocaust and Porajmos
Journal article by Andrew Woolford, Stefan Wolejszo; Law & Society Review, Vol. 40, 2006
Subjects: Competition, Crime, Genocide, Jewish organizations, Narratives, Public figures, Reparations, Trauma, Violence, World War II
...Reparations for the Holocaust and Porajmos by Andrew Woolford , Stefan Wolejszo In the early 1980s, Sebba (1980) explored the victimological...document Nazi crimes even while the Holocaust was in full force (Zweig 1987). In part, a prescient understanding of the political...
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Cape Verdean Transnationalism, Old and New
Journal article by Deirdre Meintel; Anthropologica, Vol. 44, 2002
Subjects: Africa, Cape Verde Islands, Emigration, History, Immigration, Migration, United States
...certificates, financial guarantees and so on (Zweig, 1993: 476-477). Zweig speaks from the vantage point of one who grew...Haven Negro, New Haven: Yale University Press. Zweig, Stefan 1993 Le Monde dhier: Souvenirs dun Europeen...
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magazine articles on: Zweig Stefan  - 39 results

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Trapped in a Golden Age
Magazine article by Alexandra Starr; American Scholar, Vol. 77, Winter 2008
Subjects: Austrian culture--Analysis, Travel--Austria, Travel--Personal narratives, Vienna, Austria--Description and travel
...both Jews, as were the writers Stefan Zweig and Arthur Schnitzler. Mahler...novelist-playwright-biographer Stefan Zweig had already escaped from Austria...memoir, The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig remembered how in pre-World War...
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Deliver Us from Evil
Magazine article by Robert Hanks; New Statesman, Vol. 138, March 9, 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Post Office Girl (Novel)--Book reviews
...never published during Stefan Zweigs lifetime: the...be set in train. Had Zweig finished the story, or...pessimism is what put Zweig off publishing--he...Hanks The Post Office Girl Stefan Zweig Sort Of Books, 265PP...
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Beneath the Seventh Veil: Richard Strauss's Salome and Kaiser Wilhelm Ii
Magazine article by Chris Walton; Musical Times, Vol. 146, Winter 2005
Subjects: European history, Musicians & conductors, Opera, Personal profiles, Royalty, Social life & customs, Strauss, Richard (1864-1949), Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany (1859-1941)
...following openly, in a letter to Stefan Zweig: I am passionately anti-Christian...schweigsame Frau, his collaboration with Stefan Zweig would similarly present no insurmountable...secret police, as was his letter to Stefan Zweig of 17 June 1935. As is well known...
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The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali
Magazine article by Stephen Schwartz; New Criterion, Vol. 17, June 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews, The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali (Book)--Reviews
...naive but harmless opinion of the author Stefan Zweig, who introduced Dali to Freud. Gibson declares, "Zweig told Freud that in his opinion Dali was...one who will survive. It was as though Zweig had never heard of Picasso." A critical...
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The Better Germany
Magazine article by Fraser Bell; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 110, Summer 2003
Subjects: War--Media coverage, War--Social aspects
...eschatological echoes of other voices: Walter Benjamin, Stefan Zweig, Max Beckmann, Kurt Tucholsky, Harry Kessler, Brecht...artists. Some committed suicide, like Kurt Tucholsky, Stefan Zweig, and Ernst Toiler; Karl Kraus drank himself to death...
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newspaper articles on: Zweig Stefan  - 23 results

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Precious Gems Uncovered; Victim of Fascism: Born in Austria in 1881, Stefan Zweig Was a Campaigning Pacifist Whose World Fell Apart with the Advent of the Nazis. He Committed Suicide with His Wife in 1942, in Brazil
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 26, 2009
Subjects: Pacifists, Peace activists, Zweig, Stefan
...Fascism: Born in Austria in 1881, Stefan Zweig Was a Campaigning Pacifist Whose...SEXTON THE POST OFFICE GIRL by Stefan Zweig, trans by Joel Rotenberg (Sort...to live? For Simon Gray it was Stefan Zweig. In his final memoir, Coda...
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Ophuls at Top of His Craft
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 20, 2008
Subjects: Clothing industry, Motion pictures--Movie reviews, Ophuls, Max
...pictorial finesse. Derived from a Stefan Zweig book, "Unknown Woman" recalls...adoration is a concert pianist, Stefan Brand, played by Louis Jourdan...Howard Koch, based on the novel by Stefan Zweig. RUNNING TIME: 87 minutes TITLE...
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Out Now in Paperback
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 23, 2009
...circus folk to find the killer. THE POST OFFICE GIRL BY STEFAN ZWEIG (Sort of Books pounds sterling7.99) THE YEAR is...begins to find her own poverty not humble but shameful. Stefan Zweig, an Austrian Jewish writer who committed suicide in...
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Our Debt to a Str Rong Man of Letters; Book of the Week
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 7, 2010
Subjects: Books
...on the verge of suicide, the great Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig turned to Montaigne as an "indispensable helper, confidant...reflected; here is where all distance is abolished," wrote Zweig. "Four hundred years disappear like smoke." Bakewell...
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ESSENTIAL SUMMER READING; as Baggage Restrictions on Budget Airlines Are So Mean, It's Crucial to Choose Your Holiday Reading Wisely. Here Are Some Books That Truly Deserve to Make the Cut
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 9, 2009
Subjects: Airlines, Luggage
...not new but newly translated -- The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig, translated by Joel Rotenberg (Sort Of Books, pounds...penniless war veteran, perhaps criminal, perhaps suicidal. Zweig, who died in a double suicide with his young second wife...
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encyclopedia articles on: Zweig Stefan  - 3 results

 
 
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Zweig, Stefan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ZWEIG, STEFAN shtef an tsvik, 1881 1942, Austrian biographer, poet, and novelist. Born in Vienna of a well-to-do Jewish family, he...
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Strauss, Richard
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in collaboration with the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal . After Hofmannsthal died (1929) Strausss librettists were Stefan Zweig for Die schweigsame Frau (1935) and Josef Gregor for Friedenstag (1938), Daphne (1938), and Die Liebe der Danae...
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German Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...They became evident as symbolism and impressionism in poetry (Stefan George , Rainer Maria Rilke , Hugo von Hofmannsthal ) and in...Socialism, which forced leading writers like Thomas Mann and Arnold Zweig into emigration. Postwar Literature The postwar decades saw...


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