Austrian campaign aims to save writer Stefan Zweig’s Salzburg villa after Porsche tunnel row
•Austrian cultural figures are campaigning to save Villa Europa, once home to writer Stefan Zweig.
•The villa is for sale after Wolfgang Porsche's controversial plans for a private tunnel.
•Zweig, a Jewish writer, was forced to sell the villa in 1934 due to the Austro-fascist regime.
المصدر: The Guardian World | Source: The Guardian WorldSupporters hope to stop 17th-century Villa Europa passing into private hands after Wolfgang Porsche unexpectedly put it on market
Austrian cultural figures have launched a campaign to buy a villa once home to the writer Stefan Zweig after its owner, the automotive magnate Wolfgang Porsche, unexpectedly put it on the market following a row over his plans to build a private tunnel for his car collection.
Zweig, the Austrian Jewish writer whose novels inspired the Wes Anderson film The Grand Budapest Hotel, lived in the 17th-century property until 1934 when he was driven out of Salzburg by the Austro-fascist regime and his family was forced to sell it at a rock-bottom price.
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→Austrian cultural figures are campaigning to save Villa Europa, once home to writer Stefan Zweig.
→The villa is for sale after Wolfgang Porsche's controversial plans for a private tunnel.
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