Ein möglichst intensives Leben

Completely indexed for the first time: Lion Feuchtwanger's previously unpublished diaries. Feuchtwanger's diaries were discovered in the 1990s in his secretary's apartment, where he had probably hidden them himself during the McCarthy era because of their explosive nature. They can now be published for the first time, after painstaking decipherment of all the passages encoded in shorthand. We discover an unreservedly open chronicler of his own eventful life as well as of central chapters of German history. As a successful author, he was driven out of his homeland by the National Socialists, but even in exile he moved in artistic and political circles and soon picked up where he left off. In California he completed an intense life as an admired but also hostile author and always desired by interesting women - he remained true to his ideals throughout his life. One of the most.