Alfred Neumann Collection 1927-1976 1927-1962

This collection contains several short prose manuscripts and over 100 poems, some of them handwritten or with handwritten corrections. In some cases the short prose manuscripts indicate that they were used as the basis for potential film projects. The largest other group of material is correspondence, particularly with the writer Alexander Frey. There are also several photographs, a bibliography of Neumann's print and cinematic works, some publicity materials, and a couple of clippings.Neumann was born in Lautenburg, West Prussia (today Lidzbark, Poland) in 1895. He attained renown as a writer and novelist in Germany, and won the Kleist Prize (Kleist-Preis) in 1926. He left Germany for Italy in 1933, and eventually settled in Los Angeles in 1941, where he worked as a screenwriter in the film industry. A couple of his novels and screenplays were adapted into films. In 1949 he and his wife returned to Europe. Neumann died in Lugano, Switzerland in 1952.Some photographs have been removed to the LBI Photograph CollectionDetailed inventories are available in each folder.Finding aid available online.Processed for digitization byReinhardt, Maxdigitize