Discipline: Literature

Hans Sahl

Discipline: Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1945
More: www.nytimes.com/1993/04/29/obituaries/hans-sahl-90-author-who-fled-nazis-to-us.html
Hans Sahl (1902-1993) was a poet, critic, and novelist who began writing during the Weimar Republic. He came from an affluent Jewish background, but like many such German Jews he fled Germany due to the Nazis. First to Czechoslovakia in 1933, then to Switzerland, and then France. In France he was interned along with Walter Benjamin. He would later flee Marseille and work with Varian Fry to help other artists or intellectuals fleeing Nazism. He became known as one of the anti-fascist exiles and in the U.S. translated Arthur Miller, Thornton Wilder, and Tennessee Williams into German.

Studios

Star

Hans Sahl worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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