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Feuchtwanger Lion . 1884--1958, German novelist and dramatist, lived in the US (1940--58): noted for his historical novels, including Die h?ssliche Herzogin (1923) and Jud S?ss (1925) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Her studies also included work with Peter Feuchtwanger in London and Leon Fleisher in Baltimore. NAMES LIKE FEUCHTWANGER, Werfel, and Seghers probably won't ring many bells today, but in the 1930s and `40s a long list of German playwrights, poets, and novelists were household names in America: Not just Thomas Mann, Nobel Prizewinning author of Magic Mountain, and Bertolt Brecht, librettist of The Three Penny Opera, endure today, but dozens of others who time has forgotten, including Anna Seghers, Franz Werfel, and Lion Feuchtwanger. Among those he saved from deportation to Nazi death camps were Russian-born painter Marc Chagall, German-born philosopher Hannah Arendt, sculptor Jacques Lifschitz and writer Leon Feuchtwanger. |
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