Stefan ZweigBirth Chart
28/11/1881 02:00
B - Biography/autobiography
Vienna
Austria
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Stefan Zweig was an Austrian writer of wide international renown, working as a novelist, playwright, biographer, essayist and journalist. Born into a wealthy family, he graduated in philosophy from the University of Vienna and early in his career built a reputation translating and promoting European authors, while taking part in an intellectual circle that included figures such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann and Sigmund Freud. In the 1920s and 1930s Zweig became one of the most read and translated authors in the world, producing works that blend narrative, psychological analysis and historical reflection — among them short pieces and novellas such as Amok, Angst and Confusion of Feelings — and biographies of figures like Dostoevsky, Dickens and Marie Antoinette. His output also reflects a pacifist commitment and a Europeanist ideal forged after the First World War. Targeted by antisemitism and the rise of Nazism, he went into exile from 1934, living in England, the United States and finally Brazil, where he wrote essays about the country and part of his major autobiographical work. His death in 1942, by suicide in Petrópolis, brought an end to a literary voice that embodied the cultural and political tensions of interwar Europe and left a lasting legacy in twentieth‑century literature and intellectual memory.
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