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International scholars present new research on Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger and their Southern California circle of refugees from Nazism.
This, the first Feuchtwanger Conference, focuses on the life of the Feuchtwangers and the other European émigrés in California in the 1930s and 1940s.
International scholars will discuss the California careers of such well known figures as Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Lubitsch, and Franz Werfel, as well as many less well-known European artists and writers who fled Nazism and became part of the Los Angeles circle centered on Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger (pictured). Feuchtwanger's FBI file, now available, is one of the topics for the meeting.
The second day of the conference will be held at Villa Aurora, the Feucthwanger's Pacific Palisades home.
The International Feuchtwanger Society was founded in July 2001 by eleven scholars from Europe and the USA at a meeting at the Villa Aurora. The aim is to promote scholarship on the life and works of Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger.
Friday, 25 April 2003
Doheny Memorial Library, University of Southern California
10:00 a.m.
Arrival and Registration
10:30 a.m. Session 1 – Relocation
Marje Schuetze-Coburn (University of Southern California)
“The Feuchtwangers’ relocation in Southern California”
Alexander Stephan (Ohio State University)
“Neues vom FBI zu Lion Feuchtwanger”
Linde Fliedner-Lorenzen (Bonn)
“Marta Feuchtwanger, Nelly Mann, Salka Viertel – Emanzipations- und
Überlebensstrategien dreier Schriftstellerehefrauen im Exil 1933-1945”
Ludwig Fischer (Willamette University)
Marta Feuchtwanger’s oral history of Lion Feuchtwanger’s life.
12:30 p.m.
Lunch
2:00 p.m. Session 2 – Alte Welt, Neue Welt
Wulf Koepke (Texas Technical University)
“Frankreich und Deutschland, von Hollywood aus gesehen”
Jeffrey Berlin (Langhorne, PA)
“Ben Huebsch of the Viking-Press (New York): Unpublished Correspondence
with European Authors in Exile, with special attention to Lion Feuchtwanger”
Pól Ó Dochartaigh (University of Ulster)
“Waffen für Amerika and US-European cooperation”
3:30 p.m.
Afternoon Tea
4:00 p.m. Session 3 – Exiles
Anne-Marie Corbin (Université Maine-Le-Mans)
“Friedrich Torberg in Hollywood (1940-1944)”
David Midgley (St. John’s, Cambridge)
“Döblin in Hollywood”
Manfred Flügge (Berlin)
Staged reading from the play Villa Aurora
6:00 p.m.
Break
6:30 p.m.
Dinner at USC Faculty Center
Saturday, 26 April 2003
Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades
10:00 a.m. Session 4 – Jüdisches
Daniel Azuelos (Sorbonne IV, Paris)
“Lion Feuchtwanger und Franz Werfel in der Exilzeischrift Aufbau oder Schriftsteller zwischen Engagement und künstlerischer Selbstbehauptung”
Arnold Pistiak (Universität Potsdam)
“Das Vermächtnis des historischen Dichters. Anmerkungen zu Jefta und seine
Tochter”
11:00 a.m.
Morning Coffee
11:30 a.m. Session 5 – Film
Jonathan Skolnik (University of Oregon)
“Ui? Phooey! Bertolt Brecht and Ernst Lubitsch in Hollywood Exile”
Ian Wallace (University of Bath)
“Hangmen Also Die”
1:00 p.m.
Closing Discussion
1:30 p.m.
Lunch
2:30 p.m.
International Feuchtwanger Society Discussion
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