FS04 Jeff Fountain on What it Means to have a Passion for Europe

Our Birdview building is based in Salzburg, a city that washome to the writer Stefan Zweig for some 14 years. In 1934, Zweig left Salzburg, first for London and later into exile in Brazil. He would never return – neither to Salzburg, nor to Europe. A committed advocate of European unity, Zweig becameincreasingly disillusioned as he watched that vision disintegrate in the face of rising fascism,…