Librairie Au Pont de l'Europe
Subtitle: die erste Exilbuchhandlung in Paris
By: Inge Thöns, Herbert Blank
Contributors: Blank, Herbert, author
Publisher: Wallstein-Verlag
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Göttingen
Language: ger
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9783835333253
Subjects: Bookstores; History; Booksellers and bookselling; German imprints; Au Pont de l'Europe (Paris, France)
Description: From 1933 to 1940, the bookstore "Au Pont de l'Europe" was an intellectual refuge for literati and artists displaced from Nazi Germany, and at the same time a meeting place between two cultures - the French and the German. The first German exile bookstore in Paris founded by the Jewish publisher and bookseller Ferdinand Ostertag met celebrities such as Alfred Döblin, Klaus and Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, Anna Seghers, Ernst Toller, Franz Werfel and Kurt Wolff. Marlene Dietrich, Lotte Lenya and Kurt Weill were there as well as André Gide, Julien Green, Gertrude Stein and Paul Valéry. In 1940, "Au Pont de l'Europe" was seized by the French police, Ferdinand Ostertag fled further, to New York. What remained was the guest book of the bookshop, in which 64 prominent visitors had registered and which is completely reproduced in this volume as a facsimile. Inge Thöns and Herbert Blank reconstruct the story of "Au Pont de l'Europe" and follow in the footsteps of the founders, books and visitors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prolog; title: Ferdinand Ostertag und Au Pont de l'Europe --; title: Ferdinand Ostertag : Initiator und Gründer von Au Pont de l'Europe --; title: Glogau --; title: Der zionistische Jugendbund "Blau-Weiss" --; title: Berlin --; title: Buchhandlung und Verlag Ferdinand Ostertag Berlin --; title: Buchhandlung Leipziger Strasse G.m.b.H. --; title: Zielort Europa --; title: Paris : Berlin --; title: Berlin : Paris --; title: Ankunft Paris --; title: Ex Libris --; title: Neue Pläne --; title: Otto Wittenborn --; title: Marie Cuttoli, 17 rue Vignon --; title: Die Gründung --; title: Arnold Naville --; title: Claude Naville --; title: Jacques Naville --; title: Politische Koordinaten --; title: Au Pont de l'Europe : Brücke nach Europa --; title: Der Laden --; title: Europa, Europa --; title: Die Eröffnung --; title: Der lange Weg ins geistige Exil --; title: Von Paris nach New York : Otto Wittenborn --; title: Francis Kellerson : Kurzfristig Teilhaber --; title: Adolphe Klapholz : Zenit und Untergang --; title: Von Paris nach New York : Ferdinand Ostertag --; title: Au Pont de l'Europe : Zeittafel --; title: Das Gästebuch der Buchhandlung Au Pont de l'Europe --; title: Die Besucher von Au Pont de l'Europe --; title: Gästeliste -- -- Anhang; title: Der nächste polnische Jude : eine wahre Geschichte ---- Register-- Die Autoren.