Escape Home
DoppelHouse Press (Verlag)
978-0-9970034-6-8 (ISBN)
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"Intimate and scholarly...Patient readers will be rewarded. An encyclopedic and epistolary family history, a eulogy for pre-Reich Vienna and an ode to midcentury modernism." -- Kirkus Reviews "This jewel should not be called a book but a museum." -- Will Semler, author (Melbourne, Australia) "One of the more uplifting accounts of European emigre life that I have read in a long time...It will touch you to tears right away, regardless of how many accounts of similar fates you believe to have studied and understood...What a book!" -- Volker M. Welter, author and architectural historian "An invaluable addition to the literature on the birth of modern Aspen." --Stewart Oksenhorn, The Aspen Times Charles Paterson (born Karl Schanzer) was only nine years old when the Nazis invaded Austria and his father, Stefan, fled with his children to avoid persecution. To assure their continued safety, the children were baptized and adopted by the Paterson family in Australia while Stefan made a harrowing escape through occupied France. It would be eight years, after much sorrow and loss, before Charles and his sister would reunite with Stefan in the United States.
After Charles and Stefan settle in Aspen, Colorado, amidst the snow-capped peaks that remind them of the Austrian Alps, Stefan becomes a high school teacher known for his humor and adventure stories while Charles teaches skiing, serves as a Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice, and then builds his thesis project, the The Boomerang ski lodge. Charles lives with Stefan at The Boomerang and, as Aspen grows into a world-class ski resort, spends fifty years welcoming thousands of people to the town with Austrian warmth and gemutlichkeit. Based on archival documents and letters, together with the authors' personal reflections, Escape Home is a family memoir and a meditation on the domestic qualities of architecture, where the bonds of culture and family prove to be the true foundation for rebuilding meaningful lives and finding both security and freedom.
Charles Paterson: Charles Paterson was born Karl Schanzer in Vienna, Austria in 1929 and now lives in Aspen, Colorado. As a Jewish child he and his sister were adopted by the Australian Paterson family. An architectural designer, Paterson was one of the last apprentices to train under Frank Lloyd Wright. Carrie Paterson: Carrie Paterson is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. She writes for contemporary art journals, lectures at Southern California universities and is Publisher and Editor in chief at DoppelHouse Press. Hensley Peterson is an editor based in Aspen, Colorado. Paul Anderson: Paul Anderson is a writer of books and essays. He is a columnist for The Aspen Times.
Prologue XI Introduction XIII Part One Chapter 1 Foundations 1 Chapter 2 The Werkbundsiedlung 1932-1938 15 Chapter 3 Weaving 24 Chapter 4 Childhood 31 Chapter 5 Mutti 50 Chapter 6 A Boy of Ten Is Already Grown 56 Chapter 7 My Dear Children 76 Chapter 8 Prisoners Don't Ride Bicycles 83 Chapter 9 Sauf Conduit 93 Chapter 10 Australia 105 Chapter 11 War Cry 116 Chapter 12 Resurfacing 128 Chapter 13 The Goldens 136 Chapter 14 When War Is Over 144 Chapter 15 To America 154 Part Two Chapter 16 Finding Home 164 Chapter 17 Summer of '49 178 Chapter 18 Manna from Heaven 191 Chapter 19 Dispossession 201 Chapter 20 What Traces Are Left 213 Chapter 21 Stefan and Max 1939--1947 227 Chapter 22 Aspen, Early 1950's 239 Chapter 23 Prisoner of Fortune, Prisoner of War 250 Chapter 24 At the End of Empire 264 Chapter 25 Money Matters 276 Chapter 26 Basic Training 288 Chapter 27 The Tachinierer 299 Part Three Chapter 28 Breaking Ground 312 Chapter 29 Taliesin 321 Chapter 30 A Critical Mix 336 Chapter 31 A Sympathetic Chord 349 Chapter 32 Architecture in Evolution 366 Chapter 33 Building 383 Chapter 34 Pencil to Paper 398 Chapter 35 Silversmithing 414 Chapter 36 Still Escaping 428 Chapter 37 Adaptations 438 Chapter 38 A Philosophy of Life 445 Chapter 39 A Cabin Is A Castle 455 Appendix I Recipes 459 Appendix II Map of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France 467 Appendix III Family Trees 473 Endnotes 481 Selected Bibliography 517 Acknowledgments 526 Index 533
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.03.2017 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Two-color art; 200 B&W photographs, maps, tables |
| Verlagsort | Los Angeles |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 864 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-9970034-6-4 / 0997003464 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-9970034-6-8 / 9780997003468 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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