Casa Stefan Zweig

The Casa Stefan Zweig is to build in the possession of a private, non-profit association, which was founded in 2006 by a group of interested individuals in the last home of Stefan Zweig and his wife in Petrópolis (Brazil ) is a museum dedicated to the writer. Since 2012, the museum is open for visitors,

House

The branch - house is situated in the Rua Gonçalves Dias # 34 in the city of Petrópolis north of Rio de Janeiro in Rio de Janeiro. Here Stefan Zweig and his second wife Lotte lived for five months until their joint suicide on 22 February 1942. During this time, the writer revised his autobiography The World of Yesterday and the Schachnovelle and designed his essay on Montaigne. The house was purchased by the club Casa Stefan Zweig and the architect Miguel Pinto Guimarães entrusted with the renovation and transformation of the house into a museum.

Museum

The museum is to be a memorial of exile for artists, intellectuals and scientists from Europe who fled as Stefan Zweig during the Third Reich to Brazil and there made ​​their contribution to art and science.

Be planned exhibitions, symposiums, competitions, theater and film screenings, readings and concerts, also in cooperation with partner organizations such as the International Stefan Zweig Society. The museum will house a library and a conference hall.

Since 2008, may be served in the museum an Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service.

The association

First president of the association Casa Stefan Zweig is the Brazilian journalist and biographer Stefan Zweig Alberto Dines. The club operates a four -language website can be accessed in general on the information about branch and the exile literature.