Abstract
Who was in exile in Great Britain? At least as far as literary figures are concerned the answer to this question appears at first sight extremely simple — nobody of any importance. Weimar moved to the West Coast of North America. All the really famous exiles settled there, or so it seemed. Britain apparently had nobody to compare with Brecht, Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Feuchtwanger, Remarque and other literary greats. Some famous writers did pass through. Hermann Broch, for example, spent some time in St Andrews where his translator Edwin Muir was able to give him a little room for a short period. Shortly thereafter he left for America. Bruno Frank came to London, where his plays were very successful in performance. Hasenclever also came over from Paris to see his plays in performance, but he was never in exile in Great Britain. However, one or two really famous writers from this period did stay longer, most notably Stefan Zweig who emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1934. He did not move on to America till 1940.1
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