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Stefan Zweig (/ z w aɪ ɡ, s w aɪ ɡ / ZWYGHE, SWYGHE, [1] German: [ˈʃtɛfan ˈtsvaɪk] ⓘ; 28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) 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.
"Buchmendel" is a 1929 short story by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. It tells the tragic story of an eccentric but brilliant book peddler, Jakob Mendel, who spends his days trading in one of Vienna's many coffeehouses. With his encyclopaedic mind and devotion to literature, the Poland-born Russian-Jewish immigrant is not only tolerated but ...
Stefan Jerzy Zweig (28 January 1941 – 6 February 2024) was a Polish-German author and cameraman. He is known as the Buchenwald child from the novel by Bruno Apitz , Naked Among Wolves . He survived the Buchenwald concentration camp at age four under protection from his father and other prisoners.
The World of Yesterday: Memoires of a European (German title Die Welt von Gestern: Erinnerungen eines Europäers) is the memoir [1] [2] [3] of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. [4] It has been called the most famous book on the Habsburg Empire . [ 5 ]
Arnold Zweig (10 November 1887 – 26 November 1968) was a German Jewish writer, pacifist and socialist. Early life and education ... He is not related to Stefan Zweig.)
These included Bertolt Brecht, Erich Maria Remarque, Alfred Döblin, Arnold Zweig, Heinrich Mann, Stefan Zweig [8] and Carl Zuckmayer, also visual artists such as Max Pechstein, Oskar Kokoschka and George Grosz, also the actress Tilla Durieux, the publishers Samuel Fischer, Ernst Rowohlt and the Ullstein brothers and politicians like the ...
Die schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman), Op. 80, is a 1935 comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a libretto by Stefan Zweig after Ben Jonson's 1609 comedy Epicœne, or The Silent Woman. Composition history
Nebehay’s clients included famous personalities such as the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. [3] In the following years, he rose to become a major graphic connoisseur and antiquary, as well as a leading specialist in the field of hand drawings of old masters. [2] Nebehay was the first art dealer to produce his catalogues in various printings. [4]