Klemens Renoldner worked on a new Stefan Zweig edition for seven years. A conversation about the topicality of the author of “The World of Yesterday”
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Klemens Renoldner has worked on a new edition of Stefan Zweig’s narrative work and emphasizes that Zweig’s political journalism and his memoir “The World of Yesterday” are still relevant today. In it, Zweig describes the rise of fascists and National Socialism in Germany and Austria, identifies hatred of foreigners and emigrants as a driving political force and warns against authoritarian structures and the suppression of liberalism. Renoldner emphasizes that Zweig has designed an idealistic cultural Europe and emphasizes that the new edition of the work takes into account many previously unconsidered variants and linguistic nuances.
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THE TIME: Mr. Renoldner, you have been working on a new edition of the narrative work for several years Stefan Zweig worked. Why should we still read this writer, who died in 1942, today?
Klemens Renoldner: He is current primarily because of his essays and his political journalism, but also because of the late memoirs The world of yesterday. This work is always read as a look back at the monarchy. That was also the idea behind it. The book was supposed to be published first in 1914 and then with the First World War end. But Zweig continued to write and thereby reduced to absurdity the aspect of Habsburg nostalgia under which it was and is often received.
