RETURN TO THE FOREIGN HOMELAND

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FROM KREISKY'S LIVING ROOM

FRANZ VRANITZKY AND HERBERT LACKNER IN CONVERSATION ABOUT THE BOOK
RETURN TO THE FOREIGN HOMELAND
The displaced Poets and thinkers and the sobering reality of post-war Europe

Only some of the 440,000 people who fled Germany and Austria to escape the Nazis returned after 1945. They are not always welcome.
This book is about returning to countries that often stubbornly refuse to come to terms with their recent history. It is about Willy Brandt, Thomas Mann, Robert Stolz, Bruno Kreisky, Alma Mahler-Werfel, Bertolt Brecht and many others.
It is the third part of Herbert Lackner's cultural history trilogy. Already published: When the night fell. Europe's poets and thinkers on the eve of fascism and Nazi barbarism (ueberreuter, 2019).and The flight of poets and thinkers. How Europe's artists and scientists escaped the Nazis (ueberreuter, 2017).

Herbert Lackner, born in Vienna, studied political science and journalism, was deputy editor-in-chief of the “Arbeiter Zeitung” and then for 23 years editor-in-chief of the news magazine profile. He is the author of numerous articles on contemporary history in profile and The time.
Franz Vranitzky, former Federal Chancellor, is the founding and honorary president of the Bruno Kreisky Forum

In co-operation with the Carl Ueberreuter publishing house

Herbert Lackner:
Return to the foreign homeland
The displaced poets and thinkers and the sobering reality of post-war Europe
Ueberreuter, March 2021, ISBN: 978-3-8000-7765-6, 220 pages