Abstract
Most of Arnold Zweig’s novels are autobiographical. Das Beil von Wandsbek seems to be an exception in this respect. But even in this work, which deals with the events of everyday life in Hamburg under fascism, there is one episode where Zweig brings in something highly personal, albeit in a carefully camouflaged way. This is the Rohme episode, which can only be understood in all its ramifications against the backdrop of his lifelong relationship with Hermann and Helene Weyl, whom he — after a period of estrangement — met again in 1939 in Princeton. Instead of the expected reconciliation, a clash of political opinions evolved which led to a total breakdown of their relationship and was finally incorporated by Zweig into Das Beil von Wandsbek.
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