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Berthold Viertel
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Berthold Viertel
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The Kindness of Strangers
A memoir about showbiz in the early 20th century that travels from the theaters of Vienna, Prague, and Berlin, to Hollywood during the golden age, complete with encounters with Franz Kafka, Albert Einstein, and Greta Garbo along the way. Salka Viertel’s autobiography tells of a brilliant, creative, and well-connected woman’s pilgrimage through the darkest years of the twentieth century, a journey that would take her from a remote province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Hollywood. The Kindness of Strangers is, to quote the New Yorker writer S. N. Behrman, “a very rich book. It provides a panorama of the dissolving civilizations of the twentieth century. In all of them the author live...
Berthold Viertel
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Viertels Welt
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Networks of Refugees from Nazi Germany
This volume focuses on coalitions and collaborations formed by refugees from Nazi Germany in their host countries. Exile from Nazi Germany was a global phenomenon involving the expulsion and displacement of entire families, organizations, and communities. While forced emigration inevitable meant loss of familiar structures and surroundings, successful integration into often very foreign cultures was possible due to the exiles’ ability to access and/or establish networks. By focusing on such networks rather than on individual experiences, the contributions in this volume provide a complex and nuanced analysis of the multifaceted, interacting factors of the exile experience. This approach connects the NS-exile to other forms of displacement and persecution and locates it within the ruptures of civilization dominating the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Contributors are: Dieter Adolph, Jacob Boas, Margit Franz, Katherine Holland, Birgit Maier-Katkin Leonie Marx, Wolfgang Mieder, Thomas Schneider, Helga Schreckenberger, Swen Steinberg, Karina von Tippelskirch, Jörg Thunecke, Jacqueline Vansant, and Veronika Zwerger
Berthold Viertel
Die Jahre des Exils wurden für den 1885 in Wien geborenen Juden Berthold Viertel die literarisch produktivsten seines Lebens. Die vorliegende Untersuchung gestaltet einen Einblick in den biographischen, ästhetischen und thematischen Zusammenhang, in dem Viertels Exilschaffen steht. Aus dem umfangreichen Nachlaß wurden Gedicht- und Korrespondenzbeispiele ausgewählt, deren Auswertung einen interessanten Beitrag zur schwierigen Epochendiskussion zu leisten vermag. With regard to his writing those years in exile became the most productive ones for Berthold Viertel, a Viennese Jew, born 1885. This study supplies material that takes into account the biographical and aesthetic context of Viertel's exile work. An analysis of poems as well as of some of Viertel's correspondence, selected from his extensive literary heritage, allows for an interesting new approach to questions of periodisation.
