Part of yesterday's panels at the conference were dedicated to the stage experienc, and again the people talked about ranged from the world famous (Brecht and Charles Laughton, William Dieterle) to the less known today (cabaret star Stella Kadmon) to the unknown (actor Hans Wengraf, scriptwriter Ernst Neubach). About Brecht's American exile I knew ( Read more... )

The Lion Feuchtwanger conference in Vienna is going well; as two years ago in Los Angeles and four years ago in Sanary, going back to the academic world do debate a favourite author and his works (and some other authors while we're at it) is fun. Just one very cringeworthy moment: after Georg Stefan Troller, one of the few living emigrants left ( ( Read more... )