Name: Schachnovelle
Start: 2026-10-06T20:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-06T23:59:59+02:00
Location: Burgtheater

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Schachnovelle

October 6 at 8pm

At Burgtheater

Innere Stadt, Wien

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📖Zweig wrote it in exile, days before his death

🗣️Performed in German, brush up on the plot first

Stefan Zweig's final novella becomes a gripping psychological duel: a chess match that unfolds into a meditation on obsession and survival under Nazi terror, staged at Vienna's grand Burgtheater.

Prestigious venue

Literary adaptation

Stefan Zweig

Psychological drama

Burgtheater

Universitätsring 2, 1010 Wien, Austria

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Literary adaptation
Stefan Zweig
Psychological drama
Burgtheater
Innere Stadt
Wien

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