Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, Heinrich Mann Collection, Los Angeles

In 1958, Lion Feuchtwanger’s widow Marta donated the Villa Aurora residence along with the valuable library and Feuchtwanger archives to the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. In 1995, the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library was inaugurated at the University of Southern California. It contains, among other things, Heinrich Mann’s partial estate along with personal and business correspondence, manuscripts and published articles, personal documents, photographs and drawings from Heinrich Mann’s years in France (1933‒1940) and Los Angeles (1940‒1950), Hanns Eisler’s Californian partial estate and of course the estates of Marta and Lion Feuchtwanger.

 

Contact

Michaela Ullmann
ullmann@usc.edu
+1 213 740 8185

University of Southern California Libraries, Doheny Memorial Library, Room 206 
Los Angeles, CA 90089
USA

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