Brecht House (Svendborg)
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The Brecht House in Svendborg was the home of the writer Bertolt Brecht and the actress Helene Weigel , who stayed here from 1933 to 1939 as refugees from the Nazi regime.
Bertolt Brecht in exile
On February 28, 1933 - one day after the Reichstag fire - Brecht left Berlin with his family and friends and fled abroad. His first positions were in Prague, Vienna, Zurich, in the early summer of 1933 Carona - with Kurt Kläber and Lisa Tetzner - and Paris . At the invitation of the writer Karin Michaëlis , Helene Weigel traveled with the children to Denmark on the small island of Thurø near Svendborg . Shortly afterwards, Brecht bought the house in Svendborg (Denmark) and spent the next six years there with his family. In Danish exile, apart from some of Brecht's most important pieces - Mother Courage and her children and the life of Galilei - the Svendborg poems were written . Brecht also wrote articles for several émigré magazines in Prague, Paris and Amsterdam. In 1939, Brecht left Denmark with his family and friends as German troops were about to enter.
The house at Skovsbostrand 8
The house bought by Brecht is located in Svendborg , in the south of the island of Funen in Denmark . The municipality of Svendborg restored the thatched-roof house in the early 1990s and today offers artists and scientists from all over the world who want to devote themselves intensively to their work for a shorter or longer period a stimulating living and working space.
The Brecht house is located directly on Svendborgsund , three kilometers west of Svendborg city center and harbor. It is administered by an association. The association has set itself the goal of enriching the cultural scene in Svendborg through the guests of the house and their activities in the field of literature and music, theater, visual arts or science . In addition, the maintenance of international relations in the Brecht House should serve to present the city of Svendborg as a particularly hospitable city.
Previous scholarship holders
In addition to many other artists and scientists from different countries, the Brecht House has been a. the following German-speaking writers are guests: Wolfgang Bock, Anna Katharina Hahn , Ulrike Draesner , Andreas Greve, Robert Habeck and Andrea Paluch , Mathias Jeschke and Tanja Jeschke , Sabine Küchler , Hellmuth Opitz , Matthias Politycki , Arne Rautenberg , Tina Stroheker , Rainer Wedler , Eva Christina Zeller .
Other Brecht locations
Web links
- Under the Danish thatched roof on the website of Andrea Paluch and Robert Habeck
- The world is going down more quietly here on Arne Rautenberg's website
- The Brecht House on the Svendborg City Library website
Coordinates: 55 ° 2 ′ 30.1 ″ N , 10 ° 34 ′ 13.1 ″ E