Conference: Vicki Baum and America
Professional event
Nachlass Emil Stumpp, Deutsches Exilarchiv
begin 10.04.2024, 14:00
end 12.04.2024, 14:00
location Frankfurt am Main
At the end of March 1932, best-selling author Vicki Baum boarded the steamship "Europa," which was to take her to her new home in the USA. It is difficult to determine whether her departure from Germany before the National Socialists seized power in January 1933 was prompted mainly by politics or by personal reasons. Looking back, Vicki Baum herself stated that foreign correspondents had warned her of the dangers of National Socialism as early as 1931, during her first trip to America.
While Vicki Baum's time in Germany, especially as an author and editor for the publishing company Berliner Ullstein Verlag, has now been researched in depth, there is a lack of extensive studies documenting her time in the USA. She was granted American citizenship in 1938 and began also writing in the English language in the 1940s. So far, little attention has been paid to the wide range of works she wrote in and about America. For one thing (unlike many other emigrant writers), she was able to build successfully on concepts from her time in Weimar that had already been "Americanised" (city and hotel novels). At the same time, her encounters with other languages and cultures and struggle with fascism, war, adaptation and resistance in her 'old home' of Austria and Germany brought completely new themes and forms into the focus of her work as a writer.
Programm Vicki-Baum-Tagung 10.-12.04.2024
Binding reservation for lunch at our company restaurant Rob's Kulinarium can be made by contacting https://pretix.eu/dnb/VickiBaum-Tagung/.
On 10 April 2024 at 18:00, the German Exile Archive 1933-1945 will offer conference participants a guided tour of the permanent exhibition "Exile. Experience and Testimony".
The event "An evening for Vicki Baum. Reading with music" will take place on 11 April 2024 at 19:30 as part of the conference. Information and registration
The conference "Vicki Baum and America" is a joint event organised by Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Freie Universität Berlin and the German Exile Archive 1933-1945 at the German National Library.
Funded by
Information and Contact
The event will be held in German.
Venue: Lecture hall, German National Library in Frankfurt am Main
Costs: Free admission
Duration: Begin 2024.04.10 14:00 end 2024.04.10 14:00
Booking: Online via the button above
Cloakroom info: Please leave your coats, jackets and umbrellas in the cloakroom. You will need two two-Euro coins to store your bags and jackets in the lockers.
Accessibility: The area in which the event will be taking place is barrier-free accessible
Contact: exilarchiv-veranstaltungen@dnb.de
or by phone: +49 69 1525-1987
Address and getting here
German National Library
Adickesallee 1
60322 Frankfurt am Main
Getting here
We advise you to use public transport.
1 / By public transport
By rail
From the main railway station (underground level), take the U5 in the direction of Preungesheim and get off at the stop “Deutsche Nationalbibliothek”. Journey time approx. 10 minutes.
By plane
From the airport (regional station), take S-Bahn S8 in the direction of Hanau or the S9 in the direction of Offenbach and get off at “Konstablerwache”. Change to the U5 in the direction of Preungesheim and get off at the stop “Deutsche Nationalbibliothek”. Journey time approx. 30 minutes.
By bus
The “Deutsche Nationalbibliothek” bus stop is served by the number M32 bus.
2 / By bike
The German National Library in Frankfurt am Main can easily be reached by bike. You can get to the DNB by taking the cycle paths on Adickesallee, Nibelungenallee, and Eckenheimer Landtraße.
Covered bicycle racks are located right at the main entrance.
3 / By car
The address for navigation devices is Eckenheimer Landstraße 165. The building is accessed from the underground car park. The maximum entrance height is 2.0 m.
Approaching from the west
Take the A66 to the end of the autobahn in Miquelallee and follow the signs for Fulda/Hanau; at the third intersection, turn right into Eckenheimer Landstraße in the direction of the city centre; follow the signs and turn right into the underground car park.
Approaching from the north
Take the A661 to the Eckenheim exit, get into the lane for the city centre/Eckenheim, continue straight on to the third major set of traffic lights and cross these. The entrance to the underground car park is located at the German National Library building around 100 metres further on the right.
Parking
Our car park has 100 parking spaces for visitors on the first basement floor.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 6:00 to 22:00, Saturday 8:00 to 18:00.
Fees: 2.00 Euro/hour, cash or card payment.
The permanent rental of parking spaces is not possible.
For on-street parking spaces in the Holzhausenviertel district, the City of Frankfurt of Main charges 50 cents per quarter hour or part thereof from Monday to Friday between 7:00 and 19:00.
4 / Accessibility
The German National Library in Frankfurt am Main has designated disabled parking spaces in its car park and next to the building in Schlosserstraße. The Library's public rooms can be accessed by lift from the underground car park. Barrier-free access to the main entrance is also available from Schlosserstraße.
Last changes:
13.03.2024
Short-URL:
https://www.dnb.de/vickibaum
