Marje Schuetze-Coburn and Michaela Ullmann represented Feuchtwanger Memorial Library at the fourth IFS conference in Vienna from May 6-9. They showed off the libraries' recent publication, Against the Eternal Yesterday: Essays Commemorating the Legacy of Lion Feuchtwanger, which was warmly received by the participants.
The 4-day conference took place in the Literaturhaus, the Jüdischen Museum, the Arnold Schönberg Center, and other locations throughout Vienna. Schuetze-Coburn gave a welcoming address on the first day of the conference, and Ullmann moderated a panel with presentations about the exiled writers Fritz Heymann, Berthold Viertel, and Erika von Behr.
Schuetze-Coburn, Ullmann, and the other IFS members have already begun planning for the fifth IFS conference at USC in September of 2011. The theme will be "re-immigration," including reflections on the returns of exiled writers to their native lands and the reception of their work through translations into various languages.
The panel at the Literaturhaus included representatives of the IFS, the Literaturhaus, and the Jüdischen Museum.
Michaela Ullmann moderated a panel about lesser-known exiled writers and the experience of writing away from home.
Schuetze-Coburn and Ullmann joined the other IFS members in planning the next IFS conference, which will be at USC in 2011.