{"id":404,"date":"2023-01-13T17:09:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T01:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/max-kade\/?page_id=404"},"modified":"2023-04-12T11:34:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T18:34:56","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/max-kade\/about\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <div class=\"html-content\">\n<p><em>By Dr. Cornelius Schnauber, Founder and Director Emeritus<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"html-content\">\n<p>In 1975, as chair of the Department of German at USC, I was invited to the United Nations as an honorary guest by the Secretary General who helped me convince the President of the Max Kade Foundation, Dr. Eric Markel, to donate two buildings to USC for use as a German Cultural Center. At that time, I was already organizing my second USC \u201cGerman Semester.\u201d In addition to major exhibitions such as \u201dThe White Rose\u201d exhibit from Munich and film retrospectives such as the \u201cOberhausen Film Festival\u201d and the \u201cFred Zinnemann and Billy Wilder Retrospectives,\u201d every German Semester hosted twenty-five prominent authors, composers, film makers, politicians, and scholars from the German-speaking countries and the United States who held seminars, lectures, workshops and public events. Among these prominent visitors were film \u00e9migr\u00e9s such as Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, and Paul Henreid, composers such as Boris Blacher, Paul Burkhard and Ernst Krenek, painters such as Georg Eisler, and authors Fritz Hochw\u00e4lder, Hermann Kesten, Peter Handke, Hilde Spiel, Frederick Kohner, Curt Siodmak, Heiner M\u00fcller, Friedrich Torberg, Jurek Becker, Pavel Kohout, among many others, and influential cabaret artists such as Helmut Qualtinger and George Kreisler.<\/p>\n<p>In 1984 when I stepped down as chair of the Department of German, I changed the name of the German Center to the \u201cMax Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies,\u201d thus establishing it as an Independent Research Unit at USC. We used one of the donated German Center buildings as a place for lectures, seminars, performances and informal social gatherings, and the other building was meant to be designated as a dormitory for students from the German-speaking countries. As the institute\u2019s director, I continued to focus on bringing in prominent guest speakers, scholars, artists, and politicians several of whom, including Billy Wilder, Ernst Krenek, and Gottfried Reinhardt, had already participated in the German Semesters of 1973, 1976, and 1981. The Institute also developed its own archive and library around its main focus of exile studies. We collected documents by and about exiled people mainly from the German-speaking countries between 1933 and 1949. However, in addition to its concern with exile studies, the Max Kade institute also organized international conferences on the history of Austria, Switzerland and Germany, and this again with leading politicians, scholars, authors and artists, including historians such as Hans Mommsen and documentary film makers such as Errwin Leiser, Eberhard Fechner and Egon Monk. Noteworthy participants in these programs were also the presidents of Switzerland and Austria and the Chancellor of Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Another of the Institute\u2019s main foci has also been the relationship of the German-speaking countries to their Jewish populations, past and present. Indeed, I worked with Los Angeles Jewish organizations to develop the \u201cGerman-Jewish Dialogue of the Second Generation,\u201d and I became its co-chairman along with Morris Kagan. The dialogue continued for over 20 years. Each semester it consisted of seven sessions, and it closed after the second session so that the discussions would be confidential and therefore more open for the initial participants. One session each year was open to the public and featured prominent guest speakers such as Bruno Bettelheim, Saul Friedlander and Hildegard Hamm-Br\u00fccher .<\/p>\n<p>Another important development was the \u201cSwiss-Writer in Residence\u201d program which brought in a Swiss author for a semester each year. Based at the institute, these authors worked with students and the public. Participating writers included such great authors as Friedrich D\u00fcrrenmatt, Hugo Loetscher, Eugen Gomringer, Maximilian Schell, Walter Vogt, Adolf Muschg or Daniel Odier.<\/p>\n<p>The erstwhile \u201cGerman Center\u201d of USC\u2019s Department of German, and later the Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies, has worked together with such important sponsors as the Goethe Institut in Munich, Pro Helvetia in Zurich, The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in Bonn, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst in Bonn and Berlin, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Bonn and the governments of the German-speaking countries as well as the City Council of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/max-kade\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2022\/10\/schnauber.png\" alt=\"Cornelius Schnauber\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/max-kade\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2022\/10\/schnauber.png 200w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/max-kade\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2022\/10\/schnauber-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Director Emeritus and Founding Director: Cornelius Schnauber (1939-2014)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--spacer \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--spacer\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-content-detail.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-404","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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