The Casa Stefan Zweig is legally regarded as a private charitable organisation, which was founded in 2006 by a group of interested private donors, to establish a

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, that is dedicated to the author, in the last residence of

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and his wife in

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(

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Background

The house, in which

and his second wife Lotte resided for 5 months until their joint suicide in February 1942 and where the author had revised his autobiography '' Die Welt von Gestern'' and drafted '' Schachnovelle'' and his essays about

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, was bought by the association "Casa Stefan Zweig" and the architect Miguel Pinto Guimarães was commissioned with the renovation and the redesign of the house into a museum. The museum is dedicated to the author. He, like other artists, scholars, and scientists from Europe had fled to

, due to the

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takeover in Germany. The museum will accommodate a library as well as a conference hall. Beside exhibitions, conferences, competitions, theater and cinema performances, readings and concerts, also cooperations with partner organisations like the Internationale Stefan Zweig Gesellschaft, are planned. Scientists as well as the general public should have the opportunity, to retrieve online information about Zweig, his work and his literature written in exile. They should furthermore have the opportunity to contribute their own ideas. For this purpose, a bilingual web page will be created by the Casa Stefan Zweig, which will be updated constantly. The First

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of the association Casa Stefan Zweig is the Brazilian journalist and Stefan Zweig biographer,

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. He was honored for his work and was awarded the

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(AHMA) which was founded/established by the

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in 2006. Since February 2008 the first Austrian Holocaust Memorial Servant has served within the framework of the

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at the association Casa Stefan Zweig.

References

Internationale Stefan Zweig Gesellschaft (in German)

External links

Casa Stefan Zweig (English)
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