Stefan Zweig

1881–1942

12 standalone books

Stefan Zweig was an Austrian writer, translator, and pacifist. He was born on November 28, 1881, in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, and died on February 23, 1942, in Petrópolis, Brazil. Zweig was among the most popular German-language writers of his time. He wrote psychological novellas such as Brennendes Geheimnis (1911), Angst, Brief einer Unbekannten, and Der Amokläufer, as well as literary biographies including Magellan. Der Mann und seine Tat and Triumph und Tragik des Erasmus von Rotterdam. His language was characterized by vividness and sonorous quality. His works were largely committed to realism and combined classical elements with psychoanalytically drawn characters. Among his prose works, Die Schachnovelle, Sternstunden der Menschheit, and Die Welt von Gestern were particularly notable.

Born

1881