![]() ![]() Tickets for Théâtre Montparnasse’s adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s masterful Legend of a Life with English surtitles can be found here. It is therefore encouraging to see that more and more of his output is being translated, published and adapted for the stage. Zweig’s tragic death does not diminish the literary skill and humanism his work demonstrates. A work that would go on to inspire director Wes Anderson’s wonderful comedy film The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). ![]() ![]() Increasingly despairing of the situation in Europe, a continent torn apart by war, Zweig and his second wife Lotte carried out a suicide pact in 1942, just one day after he had posted his memoir to the publishers. It was the shock of the fall of Paris in 1940 that drove Zweig to once again abandon ship, fleeing London for New York, Connecticut and finally Brazil, settling in Petrópolis, a city colonised by mostly German immigrants. Casa Stefan Zweig, a museum in the writer’s last residence in Brazil which celebrates his life. ![]()
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