Villa Aurora Events Archive
December 2018
Reading: Feuchtwanger Diaries
Los Angeles
Information
During his lifetime, German-Jewish novelist Lion Feuchtwanger claimed not to keep a diary. Yet, in the 1990s, a treasure trove of his diaries from the years 1906-1940 was found in the apartment of Feuchtwanger’s long-time secretary Hilde Waldo. Now, for the first time ever, these diaries have been published by Aufbau publishing house in Berlin, allowing us to get to know Feuchtwanger as a chronicler of his life and of a central part of German history. As an outspoken critic of the national-socialists, Feuchtwanger, who was on a reading tour in the U.S., could not return to Germany when Hitler became chancellor in January 1933. Instead, he and his wife Marta went into exile in the south of France where he was able to continue his success as a writer and as a resistance fighter, and where he continued to quench his thirst for love affairs and life in general.
Please find a recording of the event on our YouTube channel.
Partner
An event in collaboration with USC Libraries
Location: Villa Aurora, 520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272
Admission is free
RSVP mandatory via 310.454-4231 or infola@vatmh.org
Street Parking is available on Los Liones Drive. Shuttle service starts at 6:30 pm from Los Liones Drive, off Sunset Boulevard two blocks North East of Pacific Coast Highway.
Please do not park on the Topanga State Park Lot!
Cinema: The Day of Reckoning | Xu Xing
Babylon (Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30 10178 Berlin)
Participants
Xu Xing 徐星 is a prominent Chinese writer and documentary filmmaker. Often called ”The Chinese Jack Kerouac,” his works have consistently engaged with national and international issues of politics, power, and moral responsibility. Xu enjoyed his most prolific period as a writer during the 1980s and 1990s, and his books reached a broad international audience when they were translated into French, English and German. In the early 1990s he migrated to Germany, staying in Heidelberg. After returning to his hometown Beijing, he began shooting documentary films. Xu Xing worked in Villa Aurora as a Feuchtwanger Fellow in 2008.
Dr. Lorenz Bichler is a PhD Sinologist with a degree in Sinology, Japanese Studies and Modern History in Zurich, Beijing and Tokyo. He taught at New York University and is currently teaching at the Sinological Institute of the University of Heidelberg.
Partners
An event by Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e.V. the Institute of Sinology of the University of Heidelberg with the kind support of the Cinema Babylon.
