International Feuchtwanger Society
On 11 July 2001 scholars and journalists from the US and Europe
came together in Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles) to found the
International Feuchtwanger Society. The Society aims to increase
awareness of the life and works of Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger
and other German émigrés who settled in Southern California
during and after the Nazi period. Lion Feuchtwanger was a best-
selling author in the US and pre-war Europe who became an
important cultural link between the two continents.
The Society will issue a regular Newsletter and hold a series of
conferences alternating between the US and Europe. The first
conference, scheduled for spring 2003, will be co-sponsored by the
Feuchtwanger Memorial Library of the University of Southern
California. It will take place at the Villa Aurora, the Feuchtwanger's
former home in Pacific Palisades. A second event is planned for
2005 in Sanary-sur-Mer (France), an important center of German
émigré culture in 1930s.
For further details contact the Society's President, Professor Ian
Wallace, Dept. of European Studies and Modern Languages,
University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, England. Email:
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