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On February 22 nd 1942, Zweig and his wife, Lotte, were found dead in each other’s arms. The couple committed suicide by taking a lethal dose of pills. Zweig passed first, with Lotte following. This is the suicide letter Zweig left behind: The suicide note, which is kept at the National Library.
By Matti Friedman 22 February 2012, 4:28 pm. Stefan Zweig wrote hundreds of thousands of words in a celebrated literary career. His suicide note, penned at the height of WWII, took up less...
Stefan Zweig killed himself in despair over Nazism 75 years ago. But before he did, the author said Brazil had become what he hoped Europe could be, writes Benjamin Ramm. British Broadcasting...
Zweig's memoir, [27] [28] [29] The World of Yesterday, was completed in 1942 one day before he died by suicide. It has been widely discussed as a record of "what it meant to be alive between 1881 and 1942" in central Europe; the book has attracted both critical praise [22] and hostile dismissal.
On February 23, 1942, Stefan Zweig and his young wife committed suicide together in Petrópolis, Brazil. The following day, the Brazilian government held a state funeral, attended by President Getulio Vargas. The news spread rapidly around the world, and the couple’s deaths were reported on the front page of The New York Times.
Zweig, a Jew, had left Austria in 1934, living in England and New York before the final move to Brazil, and his work had been banned and vilified across the German-speaking world. In his...
Interview Highlights. On Zweig's suicide. It's critical, when we think about Zweig, to realize how deeply he identified himself with Europe. Zweig's overwhelming objective was the...
