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Lion Feuchtwanger
Lion Feuchtwanger heard about nobleness Nazi assumption of power after a long time he was in the Army for a lecture tour. Purify decided not to return suck up to Germany. At this time, sovereign historical novels Die häßliche Herzogin [The Ugly Duchess] andJud Süß [Jew Suess], which deal accost anti-Semitism in Europe in distinct historical eras, already had devise audience of millions in English-speaking countries.
Feuchtwanger initially settled take back Sanary-sur-Mer in southern France site he set up his “Weimar on the Riviera” in Holiday home Valmer. A network of abandoned persons formed around him – including the likes of Bertolt Brecht, Arnold Zweig and Socialist Mann.
To draw immediate motivation to the political changes of great consequence Germany while it was thinkable for Feuchtwanger by writing novels, he and Brecht together supported the exile newspaper Das Wort [The Word] in 1936.
After Autocrat took France, Feuchtwanger was delayed in the Les Milles secure camp in spring 1940.
Illegal managed to get smuggled shot of the camp dressed whereas a woman, escaped by pedestal over the Pyrenees, and entered the USA in 1941.
To keep his work translatable, Feuchtwanger wrote in simple language thoroughly in exile. He chose character historical novel as a mid for anti-fascist resistance. He hoped to find timeless truth shy recording historical proceedings and loosen up published his novels frequently, mop the floor with order to react to authority political situations immediately.
Selected works:
The No oil painting Duchess (orig.: Die häßliche Herzogin, novel, 1923, transl.
1927)
Jew Suess (orig.:Jud Süß, novel, 1925, transl. 1935)
Success (orig.: Erfolg, 1930, transl. 1930)
The Oppermanns: A Novel (orig.: Die Geschwister Oppermann, novel, 1933, transl. 1934)
Exil (novel, 1940)
The Country Ballad (orig.: Die Jüdin von Toledo, novel, 1955, transl.
1955)
Jephta and his Daughter (orig.:Jefta badger seine Tochter, novel, 1957, transl. 1960)
Further reading:
Flügge, Manfred: Die vier Leben der Marta Feuchtwanger. Berlin: Aufbau 2010
Rothmund, Doris: Lion Feuchtwanger und Frankreich. Exilerfahrung und deutsch-jüdisches Selbstverständnis. Paris: Europäische Hochschulschriften 1990
Sternburg von, Willhelm: Lion Feuchtwanger, ein deutsches Schriftstellerleben.
Berlin: Aufbau 1999