Feuchtwanger, Lion 1884-1958
German writer

Born in Munich, he studied literature and philology there and at Berlin universities. He won a reputation in Europe with the 18th-century historical novel Jud S�ss (1925, Eng trans Jew S�ss, 1926), presenting an elaborately detailed picture of the lives, sufferings and weaknesses of central European Jewry. The 14th-century tale Die h�ssliche Herzogin (1923), translated as The Ugly Duchess (1927) was a great success in Great Britain. During World War I he was interned in Tunis. His thinly disguised satire on Hitler's Munich putsch, Erfolg (1930, 'Success'), earned him the hatred of the Nazis. In 1933 he fled to France, where in 1940 he was interned by the German army, but escaped to the USA. He also wrote numerous dramas, and collaborated with Brecht in a translation of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II. His later works included detailed part-biographies of Goya (1952) and Jean Jacques Rousseau (1954).

Bibliography: L Boettche and P G Krohn, Lion Feuchtwanger (1960)