Stefan Zweig--Schriftsteller und literarischer Agent: Die Beziehungen zu seinen deutschsprachigen Verlegern (1901-1942)

Particular interest and poignancy attach to Stefan Zweig's ambivalent attitude toward his world renown and his increasing perturbation after his books could no longer be published in Nazi Germany. Zweig excoriated "das regimetreue Verhalten des Insel-Verlags," but Buchinger takes a more balanced view when she refers to the "deutschnationale, konservative, aber keineswegs nationalsozialistisch gesonnene" Kippenberg and avers that he had no other choice "als sich fiber kurz and lang mit dem antisemitischen Regime zu arrangieren and guten Willen zu zeigen." Since Zweig did not want to choose one of several Exilverlage for his "traditionsverhaftetes, humanistisches and weitgehend unpolitisch ausgerichtetes Euvre," he turned to the Viennese Herbert Reichner, the editor of Philobiblon, dealer in rare books, and small publisher. In addition to the 15 books by Zweig which Reichner issued or reprinted between 1934 and 1938, starting with Erasmus, Zweig induced him to publish such important Jewish authors as Hermann Broch and Elias Canetti.