Carl-Zuckmayer-Straße

The Carl-Zuckmayr Street in the Salzburg district of Kasern was named in 1988 after the author and outspoken opponent of National Socialism. The writer Carl Zuckmayer was born on 27 December 1896 in Nackenheim, a Rhineland town. He studied various subjects at the universities of Heidelberg and Frankfurt am Main, and served as a dramaturge in Kiel, Munich, and Berlin between 1922 and 1925. He publicly opposed the rising National Socialism, which led to his works being banned in Germany in 1933 and his relocation to Henndorf am Wallersee in Austria. After the “Anschluss” in March 1938, he was once again forced to flee. His escape route led him and his family first to Switzerland, where he was to return after the end of the Second World War. The majority of the Second World War – from 1941 to 1946 – was spent by him in the United States. Carl Zuckmayer died on 18 January 1977 in the southern Swiss community of Visp.