Escape Home (eBook)

Rebuilding a Life After the Anschluss

Charles Paterson (Autor)

Carrie Paterson, Hensley Peterson, Paul Anderson (Herausgeber)

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2017
570 Seiten
DoppelHouse Press (Verlag)
978-0-9832540-8-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The riveting family memoir of a Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice begins in Nazi-occupied Europe and journeys "home" to American modernism.

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The story of a secular Jewish family uprooted by the Nazi occupation of Austria and Czechoslovakia who flee Europe to reunite in post-war America to rebuild their lives. Based primarily on the memoir of modern architectural designer and Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice Charles Paterson (born Karl Schanzer), who was nine years old when the Nazi invasion reached Vienna, as well as newly uncovered documents and accounts of events found in letters between family members, the book is a riveting tale of discovery and coming to terms with a past that casts a long shadow.An engrossing saga, profusely illustrated and fully documented, the stuff that makes an intriguing feature film. I heartedly endorse it. Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Former Director, The Frank Lloyd Wright ArchivesOne 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 of Ernest L. Freud, ArchitectAdopted by the Paterson family in Australia while their father Stefan made a harrowing escape through occupied France, it would be eight years, after much sorrow and loss, before Charles and his sister Doris would reunite their remaining small family 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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

Prologue Introduction Part IChapter 1 FoundationsChapter 2 The Werkbundsiedlung 1932-1938Chapter 3 WeavingChapter 4 ChildhoodChapter 5 MuttiChapter 6 A Boy of Ten Is Already GrownChapter 7 My Dear ChildrenChapter 8 Prisoners Don’t Ride BicyclesChapter 9 Sauf ConduitChapter 10 AustraliaChapter 11 War CryChapter 12 ResurfacingChapter 13 The GoldensChapter 14 When War Is OverChapter 15 To AmericaPart IIChapter 16 Finding HomeChapter 17 Summer of ‘49Chapter 18 Manna from HeavenChapter 19 DispossessionChapter 20 What Traces Are LeftChapter 21 Stefan and Max 1939–1947Chapter 22 Aspen, Early 1950’sChapter 23 Prisoner of Fortune, Prisoner of WarChapter 24 At the End of EmpireChapter 25 Money Matters Chapter 26 Basic Training Chapter 27 The TachiniererPart IIIChapter 28 Breaking GroundChapter 29 TaliesinChapter 30 A Critical MixChapter 31 A Sympathetic ChordChapter 32 Architecture in EvolutionChapter 33 Building Chapter 34 Pencil to PaperChapter 35 SilversmithingChapter 36 Still EscapingChapter 37 Adaptations Chapter 38 A Philosophy of LifeChapter 39 A Cabin Is A CastleAppendix I RecipesAppendix II Map of Escape from Nazi-Occupied FranceAppendix III Family Trees Endnotes Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.1.2017
• Zusatzinfo: B&W ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Adolf Loos • adoption of Jewish refugee children in Australia • Anschluss • Aspen • Australia • austria • Austrian émigrés • Austrian émigrés • Austrian Jews • Austro-Hungary • Boomerang • Brisbane • Camp Hale • Charles Paterson • Colorado • Colorado ski lodges • czechoslovakia • epistolary family history • European émigré life • France • Frank Lloyd Wright • history of skiing • Holocaust • Immigrants • Jewish architects • Jewish Life • Jewish refugees • Jews in Europe • memoirs,World War I prison camps • mid-century modernism • Modern Architecture • Nazi occupation • Nazi occupation of: Austria (the Anschluss) • Nazi-occupied Europe • Personal Memoirs • Pilsen • Post-war America • postwar United States economy • prison camps • Refugees • Riga • Siberia • ski lodges • Stefan Schanzer • Surviving the holocaust • Taliesin • The Boomerang ski lodge • Theresienstadt • Third Reich • US Army • Vienna • Vienna (19th and early 20th centuries) • wwi • WWII
• ISBN-10: 0-9832540-8-7 / 0983254087
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9832540-8-9 / 9780983254089