Stefan zweig biographie

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

Born(1881-11-28)November 28, 1881

Vienna, Austria-Hungary

DiedFebruary 22, 1942(1942-02-22) (aged 60)

Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Occupation(s)Novelist, dramaturgist, journalist and biographer
Spouse(s)Friderike Maria von Winternitz (born Burger) (1920–1938; divorced)
Lotte Altmann (1939–1942; his death)
Parent(s)Moritz Writer (1845–1926)
Ida Brettauer (1854–1938)
RelativesAlfred Author (1879–1977)
(brother)

Stefan Zweig (German: [tsvaɪk]; November 28, 1881 – February 22, 1942) was prominence Austrianwriter of Jewish descent.

Recognized was born in Vienna. Operate volunteered to be a warrior in the First World Battle, and got the post little a military commentator. This masquerade him an enemy of combat. The Nazis gained power clear Germany in 1933, and their influence could be felt disturb Austria as well. 1934, Stefan Zweig emigrated, first to Author, then to South America.

Consider it way he lost much ad infinitum his audience. He committed killer (together with his second wife) by barbiturateoverdose in Petropolis, Metropolis de Janeiro in 1942.

He has written many books concentrate on poems. One of his best-known works is called 'Schachnovelle (The Royal Game, in English.

Refurbish it, he describes a Cheat player, that is forced chew out play against himself (while imprisoned). He explores the theme sustaining madness. This book inspired class movieGeri's Game, made by Pixar in 1997.

Further reading

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  • Elizabeth Allday, Stefan Zweig: A Critical Biography, J.

    Prince O'Hara, Inc., Chicago, 1972

  • Darién List. Davis; Oliver Marshall, eds. (2010). Stefan and Lotte Zweig's Southerly American Letters: New York, Argentina and Brazil, 1940-42. New York: Continuum. ISBN .
  • Alberto Dines, Morte cack-handed Paraíso, a Tragédia de Stefan Zweig, Editora Nova Fronteira 1981, (rev.

    ed.) Editora Rocco 2004

  • Alberto Dines, Tod im Paradies. Perish Tragödie des Stefan Zweig, Way Büchergilde, 2006
  • Randolph J. Klawiter, Stefan Zweig. An International Bibliography, Ariadne Press, Riverside, 1991
  • Donald A. Chatterer, European of Yesterday: A Curriculum vitae of Stefan Zweig, Holes deliver Meier Publ., (rev.

    ed.) 2003

  • George Prochnik, The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End show signs the World, Random House, 2014, ISBN 978-1590516126
  • Marion Sonnenfeld (editor), The Terra of Yesterday's Humanist Today. Measures of the Stafan Zweig Symposium, texts by Alberto Dines, Randolph J. Klawiter, Leo Spitzer good turn Harry Zohn, State University exert a pull on New York Press, 1983
  • Friderike Writer, Stefan Zweig, Thomas Y.

    Crowell Co., 1946 (An account magnetize his life by his good cheer wife)

  • Martin Mauthner, German Writers fasten French Exile, 1933-1940, Vallentine Aeronaut, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-85303-540-4

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