CASA STEFAN ZWEIG
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Small house with covered terrace, housing a museum dedicated to Stefan Zweig, with conference room and library
"Today we moved in, happy. It's a very small house, but with a large covered terrace and a beautiful view. Finally, a place to rest for a few months, and the suitcases will be stored for a long time". This is how the Austrian writer described his new home to his first wife Frederike on September 17, 1941. Alas, what seemed to him to be the home of happiness during his exile was to turn into a place of disaster. In 2007, a museum dedicated to Stefan Zweig opened in the house where the writer last lived. In exile, he moved in with his second wife, Lotte, and it was here that they took their own lives together in February 1942. Geographical distance from the barbarities of the Second World War was not enough. The man of letters could not bear this new ordeal and decided to leave this world where life and humanity no longer had any real meaning for him. It was in this house that he wrote The Chess Player and completed Yesterday's World. Souvenir d'un Européen. An association of private individuals acquired the house to build the museum. The museum includes a conference room and a library. Since 2008, Austrians have been able to attend the Austrian Remembrance Service. It is a place of culture and remembrance that honors the writer, but also other writers who chose exile in Brazil to continue their struggle from a distance, or simply to flee Nazi barbarism.
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