14 Facts About Stefanie Zweig

Stefanie Zweig was a German Jewish writer and journalist.

Stefanie Zweig is best known for her autobiographical novel, Nirgendwo in Afrika, which was a bestseller in Germany.

Stefanie Zweig's books have sold more than seven million copies, and have been translated into fifteen languages.

Stefanie Zweig, who had been withdrawn, blossomed into a venturesome, Swahili-speaking teenager.

Stefanie Zweig's father explained that the grandmother was being sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, which was operated by the German occupiers of Poland.

Stefanie Zweig attended an English boarding school while in Kenya, which was a British colony at the time.

Stefanie Zweig's father became a British soldier during World War II, when Britain was fighting Germany and the other Axis powers, but in 1947 he took his wife, daughter and infant son back to Germany.

Stefanie Zweig's father had been offered a position as a judge in Frankfurt in western Germany.

Stefanie Zweig's appointment was part of the "denazification" of the judicial system in postwar Germany; only Germans without connections to the Nazi party could serve as judges.

Stefanie Zweig worked for a time as an intern and then an editor for the Offenbach section of Abendpost, a tabloid newspaper which served the Frankfurt region.

Stefanie Zweig explained in an interview that the success of Ein Mundvoll Erde encouraged her to write her first novel for adults.

Stefanie Zweig's next novel, Irgendwo in Deutschland [Somewhere in Germany], is a sequel describing the Redlich family's life in Germany from their return in 1947 until the death of the father from heart failure in 1958.

Stefanie Zweig subsequently published the "Rothschildallee" series of four novels that appeared from 2007 to 2011; Stefanie Zweig's family home in Frankfurt had long been on this street.

Stefanie Zweig had chosen to be buried in the Neuer Judischer Friedhof [New Jewish Cemetery] in Frankfurt.