New York 1912 – Hudson River
Stefan Zweig writes:
"Finally, this feeling of the senselessness of my street wandering became so strong that I could only overcome it by making it more attractive to me through a trick. I invented a game with myself. I suggested to myself, since I was wandering around here completely alone, that I was one of the countless emigrants who didn't know what to do with themselves and had only seven dollars in my pocket... So I began to wander from employment office to employment office and... After two days I had theoretically found five positions that could have sustained my life. No one asked me about my nationality, my religion, my origin, and I had - fantastically for our present world of fingerprints, visas and police records - traveled without a passport. But there..."
— Stefan Zweig, Die Welt von Gestern
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Stefan Zweig (1881–1942)
A life between Vienna, Europe and the world.
Writer, humanist, chronicler of a bygone era – his works tell of passion, insight and the insatiable drive to understand the human in humanity.
Here you will find texts, letters and biographies in carefully edited digital editions. For reading, discovering and preserving.
"Only those who know the past have a future."
— Stefan Zweig
💭 Zitat des Tages
"Only those who know the past have a future."– Stefan Zweig
