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Alberto Dines, author and journalist, dead at age 86

Posted on May 23, 2018 by zweigatfredonia

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 →

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New Video Celebrating 50 Years of the Stefan Zweig Collection at Fredonia

Posted on October 18, 2017 by zweigatfredonia

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 →

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Please Join Us in Celebrating “Zweig at Fredonia: 50 Years of Transformation”

Posted on September 6, 2017 by zweigatfredonia

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 →

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Zweig Scholar Pardaad Chamsaz and Upcoming Events at the British Library

Posted on March 17, 2017 by zweigatfredonia

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 →

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Literaturarchiv Salzburg and Reed Library Archives Combine Efforts and Zweig Collections

Posted on February 23, 2017 by zweigatfredonia

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 →

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National Library of Israel acquires correspondence of Stefan Zweig with Hans Rosenkranz

Posted on November 14, 2016 by zweigatfredonia

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 →

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Reblogged: A librettist and his composer: Stefan Zweig and Richard Strauss as seen through their letters (guest post by Kimberly Taylor)

Posted on September 12, 2016 by zweigatfredonia

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 →

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Save the dates for “Zweig at Fredonia 2016” this October 3-5!

Posted on September 11, 2016 by zweigatfredonia

Continuing the recent surge of interest in the Austrian Jewish author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) since Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, including the premiere of an Austrian biopic selected as that country’s Oscar foreign-language submission (Vor der Morgenröte/Stefan Zweig: Farewell to … Continue reading →

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Zweig at Fredonia 2016, October 3-5, 2016, “Zweig and Strauss: Artistic Collaboration in a Time of War”

Posted on June 15, 2016 by zweigatfredonia

    Please join the Archives & Special Collections of Reed Library, the Department of English and the School of Music at The State University of New York at Fredonia in a celebration of Stefan Zweig and music at the … Continue reading →

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New Film on the Life of Stefan Zweig, “Vor der Morgenröte” (“Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe”)

Posted on June 9, 2016 by zweigatfredonia

German director Maria Schrader’s new film on Stefan Zweig’s life as an exile in Brazil, “Vor der Morgenröte” (“Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe”), recently premiered in Leipzig and is continuing its run in theaters across Germany. In an interview with Deutsche Welle’s Jochen … Continue reading →

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