Cornelius Schnauber
Director, Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies Associate Professor of German
Contact at: (213) 740-2802, (310) 397-5778 or schnaube@usc.edu
Expertise:
- contemporary Austrian, German and
Swiss literature
- Goethe
- Schiller
- German Romanticism
- Austrian & German artists who
emigrated to the U.S. from 1884 to 1945
(especially film artists such as Billy
Wilder, Otto Preminger, Fred
Zinnemann, Fritz Lang and Peter Lorre)
- exhibitions of emigre art and
memorabilia
- national socialism (especially Adolf
Hitler and his rhetoric)
- Third Reich and Nazi dictatorship
- history of anti-Semitism
- language psychology
- classicism and romanticism
- history of opera
- German opera
- concrete poetry
- Received Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
(1987)
Received Distinction of Honor in Gold for service to the Republic of Austria
(1978)
Editor of Billy Wilder's film scripts (including Some Like It Hot and The
Apartment) and Fritz Lang's film stories
Author of several books, including How Hitler Spoke and Wrote (1972); Fritz Lang in Hollywood (1986); Spaziergange durch das Hollywood der Emigranten (1992); Placido Domingo (1994); German-Speaking Artists in Hollywood (1996); Hollywood Haven: Homes and Haunts of the European Emigres and Exiles in Los Angeles (1997); and Die Hausmanns: Eine Hollywood-Chronik (novel, 1998)
German Diction Coach, Los Angeles Music Center Opera
Member, PEN Center, London
Foreign Languages:
German
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