Stefan Zweig gets a stone in Salzburg
mainThe biographer, opera librettist and novelist, one of the co-founders of the Salzburg Festival, has been finally commemorated in the town with a Stolperstein outside his former house, marking him as one of Hitler’s victims.
Zweig and his second wife, Lotte, committed suicide in Brazilian exile in February 1942.
I wonder, what Thomas Bernhard would have to say of this Austrian delay 🙂 Why choose such a morbid picture for the post ? There are even photos, on which Zweig is alive and well !
great news and about time but tasteless choice of photo!
Why merely a Stolperstein? Zweig was one of Austria’s glories. He should have been given a statue in Vienna, which he described so beautifully in ‘The World of Yesterday’. There are so many statues in Vienna that one extra would not harm.
Stephan Zweig writing deserves also to be read and known better in USA. I was able to buy all 10 volumes in Russian that I already read all 50 years ago. The brightest mind of humanity.
Austrian priorities. Outside the Staatsoper in Vienna there is a plaque in the pavement in memory of Clemens Krauss, the well-known Nazi. It has been there for many years.
Was Clemens Krauss a nazi? I though he was a conductor, that is something else. He probably was a mere opportunist, like Karajan, and after WW II he was cleared when it appeared that he had helped Jews escape from the Third Reich.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemens_Krauss
Of course Zweig should have a statue if CK has a plaque. There should be hierarchy….
The situation in Vienna is not as bad as it is described here. There are four(!) Stefan Zweig memorial plaques in Vienna: Schottenring 14 (place of birth), Wasagymnasium (school where he graduated), Rathausstraße 17 (residence), and Kochgasse 8 (residence after 1907). Furthermore there is the Stefan-Zweig-Platz in Vienna’s 17th district.
Good news….. after all, he belongs to Vienna and vice versa. These artists gave Vienna its character, even when they were no longer there, or died. Vita brevis, ars longa.