Joseph Roth: Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters

Sternburg, Wilhelm von. Joseph Roth: Eine Biographie . Cologne, 2009.

Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

8 Uhr Blatt, 79

Adler, Friedrich, 48, 50

Adler, Viktor, 48

Aesthetics, or the Science of Beauty (Vischer), 12, 13

Aix, 47

Albania, xii, 5, 15, 22, 56, 94, 456

Albatross Press, 329, 357

Albin Michel, 435

Alcazar, 193

Alexander, Kurt, 260, 261–63, 357

Alexander the Great, 43, 131

Allert de Lange, 166, 255, 315, 328, 339, 342, 350, 352, 357, 363, 373–74, 376–77, 422–24, 427–28, 435, 436, 443, 451, 454–55, 490

All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque), 318

Altmann, Lotte, 332, 479

Americanism, 132, 142

American PEN Club, 530

Amok (Zweig), 180

Amsterdam, xii, xiii, 166, 227, 254, 286, 290, 326, 392, 422–23

Andreas (Hofmannsthal), 236

Animals in Chains (Weiss), 136

Anschluss, xiv, 56, 207, 268, 311, 520, 523

Antibes, 175, 177–82

Antichrist, The (Roth), 308, 315–18, 323, 326–27, 337, 339, 341, 345, 348, 350, 356–57, 359–62, 365–67, 373, 375–77, 384, 424, 454

foreign editions of, 394–95

sales of, 382

translations of, 385, 394–95, 409–10

anti-Semitism, 63, 130, 223–24, 254, 285–86, 306, 371, 396, 399, 415, 508–9

“April” (Roth), 23, 60, 154, 186

Ararat, Mount, 88

Arbeiter Zeitung (AZ), 221, 276, 278, 281, 287, 288

Arlésienne, L’ (Bizet), 51–52

Asch, Schalom, 277–78, 376, 384, 405–6

Asnières, 72

Astrakan, 83

“At Schwannecke’s” (Roth), 71

Auden, W. H., 295, 364

Aufbau, Der, 80

Auguste (porter), 447

Austria, xiv, xv, 26, 28, 56, 105, 207, 252, 267, 273, 412, 520, 522–23

unemployment and inflation in, 4

uprising of Social Democrats in, 313

see also Anschluss

Austrian army:

Fourth Regiment of, 494, 517

JR’s service in, xi, xv, 4, 9, 13, 14, 56, 153, 220–21, 252, 254, 267, 310, 494

21st Jaegers of, 153, 221

24th Land Reserve of, 221

Austro-Hungarian Empire, 3, 34, 221, 230, 263, 361

“Auto-da-Fé of the Mind” (Roth), 119

“Ave Maria,” 16

Avignon, 44–45

Bach, Davidl, 287

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 16

Baden, 9, 11, 13, 381, 421

Badische Zeitung (BZ), 41, 63, 79

Baedeker, 3

Bailby, Léon, 399

Baku, 84

Balearics, 170

Balkans, xii, 93–94

Balzac, Honoré de, 72, 218, 285, 379

Basler National Zeitung, 326, 428

Baudelaire, Charles-Pierre, xv

Bauer, Ludwig, 266, 267

Bavaria, 56

Bavarian revolution of 1918, 87

Becher, Johannes R., 55, 57, 68

Beckmann, Max, 90, 92, 189–90

Beierle, Alfred, 25, 26, 293, 315, 404

Belgium, 257, 480, 482

Benda, Julien, 114, 115

Benedikt, Moritz, 383, 384

Benjamin, Walter, 35

Benn, Gottfried, 307, 430, 431

Berg, Alban, 438

Bergen-Belsen, 166

Berlin, xii, 4, 19, 21–29, 36, 37, 47, 55, 56, 60–61, 62, 64, 68, 72, 74, 93, 106, 204

Berliner Börsen Courier (BBC), 22, 26–27, 95, 96

Berliner Tageblatt (BT), 63, 65, 86, 91, 104, 126, 158, 172

Berlin stock market crash of 1927, 95, 96

Bernard Grasset publishing, 245, 426, 435, 436

Bernhard, Georg, 443, 445

Bertaux, Félix, xv, 136

letters of JR to, 101, 105–6, 109–10, 112–13, 117–20, 128–29, 130–32, 134–35, 199, 221–22, 234–39, 240–43, 290–91, 315–16, 384–85, 411, 522–23

Bertaux, Pierre, xv, 101, 110, 118, 128–29, 134, 199, 221, 237, 241, 243, 291

letters of JR to, 135–38

Betz, Maurice, 117, 118

Beware of Pity (Zweig), 293, 313, 514

Bible, 218, 434

Binding, Rudolph, 60

Bishop, Elizabeth, 33

Black Reichswehr, 79

Blei, Franz, 113, 118, 119, 120

Blind Mirror, The (Roth), 60, 186

Blue Angel, The (film), 385

Blum, Léon, 399

Blut und Boden literature, 367, 368

Bolshevism, 54, 82, 251, 306, 331, 380, 514

Bonaparte, Marie-Laetitia, 444, 445

Boniface, Saint, 511

Bonn, 65

Bonsels, Waldemar., 288

Brackwasser (Hauser), 109

Brandt, Willy, 96

Brazil, 33

Brecht, Bertolt, 21, 27, 68, 449

Brecht, Walter, 10, 11, 12, 13, 91–92, 207, 220

Breitbach, Joseph, 322, 336, 340

Brentano, Bernard von, xv, 176

JR as mentor of, 33, 35, 40–41, 42, 61–62, 65–67, 70, 75–76, 99

JR’s break with, 41, 137–38

letters of JR to, 33, 40–43, 46–48, 57–72, 75–76, 85–86, 89, 90, 96–97, 99, 102–3

Brentano, Clemens von, 41, 61

Brentano, Heinrich von, 66, 67, 90

Breslau, 91–92

British Labour Party, 282

British Museum, 322

Brittany, 76

Broczyner, Eduard, 523, 524

Brod, Max, 93, 94

Brodsky, Joseph, 489

Brody, 3–4, 7–8, 10, 25, 173, 310, 523

Bronsen, David, xvi, 3 n, 4, 26, 96, 207, 210, 231 n, 233 n, 310, 444

Brun, Mr., 245, 436, 501

Brüning, Heinrich, 304, 307

Brussels, 138, 478, 480–83, 502, 507–8, 511

Buchhändler Börsenblatt, 251, 276, 278

Budapest, 153, 405, 454

Burckhardt, Jacob, 164, 166

Burgtheater, 12, 15, 27

Buried Candelabrum, The (Zweig), 324, 464, 476

Burke, Mme, 180–81

“Burning Secret” (Zweig), 368

Bust of the Emperor, The (Roth), 196, 378

Byelorussia, 84

Caesar, Julius, 131

Calvin, John, 481

Calvinism, 473, 476–77, 481

Cameroon, 195

Candide (journal), 490, 491–93, 496, 499

Casanova, Giovanni Giacomo, 121

Caspar Hauser (Wassermann), 265

Castellio gegen Calvin (Zweig), 324, 464, 467, 471, 472–74, 476–77, 515, 524

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, 380

Catholic Illustrated (magazine), 473

Catholicism, 33, 39, 43–44, 66, 82–83, 178–80, 185, 207, 252, 254, 256, 391, 413–14, 482

JR’s profession of, 85, 88, 266, 411–12

Caucasus, 88, 91

Cenower, Leo, 526

censorship, 83, 85, 114, 204

Ce Soir, 523

Chamberlain, Neville, 361

Chess Novella (Zweig), 525

Child of All Nations (Keun), 489

Christiampoller, 6, 7

Christians, 5, 13, 56, 247, 296, 370, 381, 415, 417

Christian Science movement, 158, 164

Christian Socialist Party, 254, 255, 383

Christliche Ständestaat, 417, 418, 498, 499, 508, 509–10

City of Benares (ship), 517

Claassen, Eugen, 59, 60

Claassen and Goverts, 60

Claassen Verlag, 60

Claudel, Paul, 113

Collected Novellas (Zweig), 324

Collected Shorter Fiction (Roth), 420

Collected Stories (Roth), 60, 154, 224

Cologne, 71, 104, 115, 127

Columbus, Christopher, 164

Communism, 91, 170, 250, 277, 289, 300, 311, 330, 336, 380, 388, 413, 414, 496

Concordia, 156, 158

Confession of a Murderer (Roth), 196, 420, 424, 467, 471, 476, 477, 487

serial rights to, 490, 497

translation of, 490

Coral Seller, The (Roth), 329, 378

Corticelli, A., 262

Coty, Françoise, 215, 216