Brazilian author, journalist and noted Zweig biographer Alberto Dines has died at age 86 in São Paolo, Brazil. Former editor-in-chief for the Brazilian newspaper Jornal do Brasil, Dines was also the first President of Casa Stefan Zweig – a museum … Continue reading
Watch the new video celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stefan Zweig Collection at Fredonia. The video features interviews with Associate Professor of English Birger Vanwesenbeeck, Instructor of Piano/Collaborative Piano Anne Kissel, Archivist Kim Taylor, and several Fredonia students who … Continue reading
As part of the 2017-2018 Convocation Series at Fredonia, “Transformations”, please join the Archives & Special Collections of Reed Library and the Department of English in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stefan Zweig Collection at Reed Library, as well as … Continue reading
Pardaad Chamsaz, a twice visiting researcher to the Stefan Zweig Collection at Fredonia, is a Zweig scholar currently completing his PhD via an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships Programme between the University of Bristol and the British Library. His research examines not only … Continue reading
A recent visit to the Literaturarchiv Salzburg (LaS) by Reed Library Archivist Kim Taylor served to facilitate a new collaboration between the LaS and the Archives & Special Collections at Fredonia (A&SC) focused on the respective Stefan Zweig collections held … Continue reading
The National Library of Israel has recently acquired twelve years of correspondence sent by Stefan Zweig to then-aspiring author Hans Rosenkranz between 1921 and 1933. Comprising 26 letters and six postcards, the materials elucidate Zweig’s role (repeated many times during his … Continue reading
In February 1935, Austrian Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), commonly regarded as the most translated German language author of his time, wrote to German composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949), “One day, your letters, your decisions, will belong to all mankind.” (Richard Strauss and … Continue reading
