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Dec 22, 2016 · Generations of young Germans have been fans of Indian Winnetou and his German friend Old Shatterhand - even Adolf Hitler. Now that the Karl May story has been refilmed, DW's Susanne Spröer gets...
Aug 28, 2019 · Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Carl Zuckmayer fled to Switzerland, and eventually ended up visiting Saas-Fee. What was to become his lifelong love for the place struck him like a thunderbolt in 1938.
In 1938, Carl Zuckmayer fell in love with the mountains of Saas-Fee. Twenty years later, he settled in the glacier village, and today you can follow his footsteps on his favourite walk – now known as Carl Zuckmayer Trail. It begins in front of Zuckmayer’s house on Obere Wildistrasse, Saas-Fee.
In 1920, he married his childhood friend Annemarie Ganz, but they were divorced just one year later, when Zuckmayer had an affair with actress Annemarie Seidel. Zuckmayer's initial ventures into literature and theatre were complete failures.
Alice and Carl Zuckmayer, a German couple, fled Nazi persecution in 1939 and moved to the United States with their daughters. There they found an unexpected ‘native land’ on a farm in Vermont.
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My most vivid memory of Zuckmayer is of a summer evening in 1953 when I was invited to hear him read, for the first time, Ulla Winblad, which opened in GSttingen in October of that year. Be-sides myself and Zuckmayer, there were present his wife, his younger daughter and Brigitte Horney, the actress who played the
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Among the refugees, like Walter Mehring and Gina Kaus, Jura Soyfer and Hertha Pauli, is the German writer Carl Zuckmayer. In 1933, he had emigrated to Austria and his writings were burned in the German Reich.
