The PEN Centre of German-Speaking Writers Abroad
The PEN Centre of German-Speaking Writers Abroad
Fairview Str 1405201 Bennington, VT, USA
- hdruxes@williams.edu
- Helga Druxes (General Secretary)
The PEN Centre of German-Speaking Writers Abroad
The PEN Centre of German-Speaking Writers Abroad was founded in 1934 by the already emigrated writers Lion Feuchtwanger, Ernst Toller, Rudolf Olden and Max Herrmann-Neiße as the German PEN Club in Exile. It soon brought together the most important German authors and represented the persecuted and oppositional literature of the “other Germany”.
After the Second World War, the Centre continued its activities, as many of its members at that time decided not to return to Germany or left Germany once again. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, we also offered a number of East German writers who did not want to join the reunited German PEN an intellectual home.
In addition to keeping alive remembrance of the lives and works of our earlier members, we also consider our main objective to be supporting writers today who have been persecuted, exiled or silenced.
- hdruxes@williams.edu
- Helga Druxes (General Secretary)