Migrating into the Past of the Future: Stefan Zweig's Experience and Conception of 'Exile', a lecture by Rüdiger Görner
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For most parts of his life, Stefan Zweig saw himself as a 'migrant' − physically and intellectually speaking. As a world traveller in matters of literature he detested restrictions of any kind. When political circumstances forced him to recognize that 'migration' had turned into indefinite exile he responded by retracing the past in literary terms. Based on his forthcoming biography STEFAN ZWEIG. A Life in the Future of Yesterday Or: Portrait of a Writer as a European Cosmopolitan, Rüdiger Görner's lecture will focus on this latter period in Zweig's life and the dichotomy between his notion of "the world of yesterday" and "the land of the future" (Brazil).
This event is presented alongside Catrine Val's exhibition Living Memory at the Wiener Holocaust Library (19-23 June. 2023). It is hosted by the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations at Queen Mary University of London and is part of Migration: a public history festival, series of lectures, exhibitions, workshops and walks around London, supported by the Raphael Samuel History Centre.
About the speaker: Rüdiger Görner, Author and Centenary Professor of German with Comparative Literature and Founding Director of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations at Queen Mary University of London. Fellow of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung and recipient of the lifetime award, the Reimar Lüst Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (2016). Was awarded the German Order of Merit for his contribution to British-German cultural relations (2017). Author of some forty scholarly monographs, poetry and fiction.
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