10-553: The Casa Stefan Zweig is legally regarded as a private charitable organisation, which was founded in 2006 by a group of interested private donors, to establish a writer's house museum , that is dedicated to the author, in the last residence of Stefan Zweig and his wife in Petrópolis ( Brazil ). The house, in which Stefan Zweig and his second wife Lotte resided for 5 months until their joint suicide in February 1942 and where
20-477: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Writer%27s house museum Writers' homes (sometimes writer's , author's or literary houses ) are locations where writers lived. Frequently, these homes are preserved as historic house museums and literary tourism destinations, called writer's home museums , especially when the homes are those of famous literary figures . Frequently these buildings are preserved to communicate to visitors more about
30-578: Is a central theme of the satirical novel An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England . An Arsonist%27s Guide to Writers%27 Homes in New England An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England is a 2007 novel by Brock Clarke . The novel centers on a man who accidentally burns down the home of Emily Dickinson , and in the process, kills a couple who were making love in her bed: I, Sam Pulsifer, am
40-618: The Austrian Service Abroad in 2006. Since February 2008 the first Austrian Holocaust Memorial Servant has served within the framework of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service at the association Casa Stefan Zweig. 22°31′14″S 43°11′19″W / 22.520504°S 43.188727°W / -22.520504; -43.188727 This article related to a museum in Brazil
50-726: The Nazi Party takeover in Germany. The museum will accommodate a library as well as a conference hall. Along with exhibitions, conferences, competitions, theater and cinema performances, readings and concerts, cooperations with partner organisations like the Internationale Stefan Zweig Gesellschaft, are also planned. Scientists as well as the general public should have the opportunity, to retrieve online information about Zweig, his work and his literature written in exile. They should furthermore have
60-556: The United States. The tradition of preserving houses or sites important to famous authors has a long history: in the 14th century Petrarch's birthplace was preserved, despite Petrarch barely spending time there as a child. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century France, photojournalism which represented authors homes created an increased public interest in writers' private lives, making their homes destinations. The public popular imagination around these literary homes
70-434: The author had revised his autobiography Die Welt von Gestern and drafted Schachnovelle and his essays about Montaigne , was bought by the association "Casa Stefan Zweig" and the architect Miguel Pinto Guimarães was commissioned with the renovation and the redesign of the house into a museum. The museum is dedicated to the author. He, like other artists, scholars, and scientists from Europe had fled to Brazil , due to
80-530: The author than their work and its historical context. These exhibits are a form of biographical criticism . Visitors of the sites who are participating in literary tourism , are often fans of the authors, and these fans find deep emotional and physical connections to the authors through their visits. Sites include a range of activities common to cultural heritage sites, such as living history , museum exhibits , guided tours and poetry readings . New York Times commentator Anne Trubek counted 73 such houses in
90-892: The man who accidentally burned down the Emily Dickinson House in Amherst, Massachusetts , and in the process killed two people, for which I spent ten years in prison ... It's probably enough to say that in the Massachusetts Mt. Rushmore of big, gruesome tragedy, there are the Kennedys , and Lizzie Borden and her ax, and the burning witches of Salem , and then there's me. During his years in prison, he and his family receive large amounts of fan mail asking that he also burn down other famous literary homes, such as those of Mark Twain and Nathaniel Hawthorne . After his release, someone unknown begins to do just that, with
100-635: The opportunity to contribute their own ideas. For this purpose, a bilingual web page will be created by the Casa Stefan Zweig, which will be updated constantly. The First president of the association Casa Stefan Zweig is the Brazilian journalist and Stefan Zweig biographer, Alberto Dines . He was honored for his work and was awarded the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (AHMA) which was founded/established by
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