Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was an Austrian writer whose psychological novellas, biographies, and memoir The World of Yesterday made him one of the best-known German-language authors of his era.

The World of Yesterday: Stefan Zweig’s memoir of prewar Austrian life, European culture, exile, and the collapse of his world. His best-known retrospective frames the cultural world in which he grew up.
Vienna: Austria’s capital, a major political and cultural center of Central Europe. Zweig’s childhood and early literary life unfolded in its multilingual cultural milieu.
Friderike Zweig: An Austrian writer and Stefan Zweig’s first wife, who later wrote about their life together. Their marriage and literary partnership accompanied his rise and years in Salzburg.
Exile literature: Writing produced by people displaced from their homeland, often under political persecution or war. Zweig’s works and reflections were shaped by flight from Nazi-controlled Europe.
Letter from an Unknown Woman: A novella in which a writer receives a letter from a woman who has loved him for years. Its one-sided passion exemplifies Zweig’s compressed psychological fiction.
Fin de siècle: The late nineteenth-century period associated with cultural experimentation and social change, especially in Europe. Its Vienna shaped the artistic world Zweig later recalled with both affection and loss.
Lotte Zweig: Stefan Zweig’s second wife, who accompanied him in exile and died with him in Brazil in 1942. Her life became inseparable from the circumstances of his final days.
Salzburg: An Austrian city and the capital of the state of Salzburg. Zweig lived there for many years before political persecution forced him to leave Austria.
Chess Story: Stefan Zweig’s novella about a prisoner who learns chess under isolation and later faces a world champion. It turns confinement and mental strain into a dramatic contest.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal: An Austrian poet and dramatist associated with Viennese modernism and the Symbolist movement. His early success formed part of the literary generation against which Zweig emerged.

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