Casa Stefan Zweig
The Casa Stefan Zweig is to hold a private law, non-profit association, founded in 2006 by a group of interested individuals in the last home of Stefan Zweig and his wife in Petrópolis ( Brazil to build) a museum dedicated to the writer is dedicated. The museum has been open to visitors since 2012.
House
The branch house is located at 34 Rua Gonçalves Dias in the city of Petrópolis north of Rio de Janeiro in the state of Rio de Janeiro . Stefan Zweig and his second wife Lotte lived here for five months until they committed suicide on February 22, 1942. During this time, the author revised his autobiography Die Welt von Gestern and the Chess Novel and drafted his essay on Montaigne . The house was acquired by the Casa Stefan Zweig association and the architect Miguel Pinto Guimarães was commissioned to renovate and convert the house into a museum.
museum
The museum is intended to be a memorial of exile for artists , intellectuals and scientists from Europe who, like Stefan Zweig, fled to Brazil during National Socialism and made their contribution to art and science there .
Exhibitions, symposia, competitions, theater and film screenings, readings and concerts are planned, also in cooperation with partner organizations such as the International Stefan Zweig Society . The museum is to house a library and a conference hall.
Since 2008 an Austrian memorial service can be done in the museum .
The Union
The first president of the Casa Stefan Zweig association is the Brazilian journalist and Stefan Zweig biographer Alberto Dines . The association operates a four-language website where information about Zweig and the exile literature in general can be found.
Web links
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 22 ° 31 ′ 13.81 " S , 43 ° 11 ′ 19.42" W.