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Lion Feuchtwanger | |
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 Feuchtwanger in 1933 | |
| Born | 7 July 1884 Munich |
| Died | 21 December 1958 (aged 74) Los Angeles |
| Occupation | Novelist, playwright, essayist, theatre critic |
| Notable works | Jud Süß (1925) The Oppermanns (1933) |
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Lion Feuchtwanger (German: [ˈliːɔn ˈfɔʏçtˌvaŋɐ] ; 7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht.
Feuchtwanger's Judaism and fierce criticism of the Nazi Party, years before it assumed power, ensured that he would be a target of government-sponsored persecution after Adolf Hitler's appointment as chancellor of Germany in January 1933. Following a brief period of internment in France and a harrowing escape from continental Europe, he found asylum in the United States, where he died in 1958.