John Hughes
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4 Jun
John Hughes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So it was quite contradictory.
What did he say?
He said he was a sort of an Eastern Jew with a Catholic brain.
And there were two sides to his personality.
Stefan Zweig also agreed that Roth was the better writer.
He always was quite willing to admit.
He was.
And that, of course, made Zweig a bestselling author in a way which, well, Roth did sell books, but he never earned the big books.
In fact, it was published in 1932.
So just at the point the royalties were coming in, in early 1933, Hitler's already taken over.
Roth's in Paris in exile.
He never really seized the money that he was due.
I think it's the novel with the first explicit reference to Hitler.
There isn't another work of literary fiction, an earlier work of literary fiction that names Hitler.
I mean, a lot of the same applies to Berlin, of course, where he continues the same habits.
And the coffee houses and the bars were also places to network.
So there were good career reasons for spending time, you know, a place like the Romanisches Café in Berlin, where he was a habitual customer.
It was the place to be seen.
It was well known that the prominent people there, prominent people would be there.
And so it wasn't just a place to work.
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