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Austrian campaign aims to save writer Stefan Zweig’s Salzburg villa after Porsche tunnel row

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Kate Connolly in Berlin

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The GuardianAustrian campaign aims to save writer Stefan Zweig’s Salzburg villa after Porsche tunnel rowtheguardian.com
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Supporters hope to stop 17th-century Villa Europa passing into private hands after Wolfgang Porsche unexpectedly put it on market Austrian cultural figures have launched a campaign to buy a villa once home to the writer Stefan Zweig after its owner, the automotive magnate Wolfgang Porsche, unexpectedly put it on the market following a row over his plans to build a private tunnel for his car collection. Zweig, the Austrian Jewish writer whose novels inspired the Wes Anderson film The Grand Budapest Hotel, lived in the 17th-century property until 1934 when he was driven out of Salzburg by the Austro-fascist regime and his family was forced to sell it at a rock-bottom price. Continue reading...

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