Schachnovelle

• 📅Sun 01 Nov 2026 · 19:30
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**Schachnovelle** (Chess Story, 1942) is Stefan Zweig's final novella about strangers aboard a transatlantic ship, where an arrogant world chess champion is challenged to a game—and an enigmatic passenger, Dr. B., secretly coaches his opponents. Dr. B.'s mysterious skill stems from his harrowing captivity under the Gestapo in Nazi Austria, where chess became his only escape but ultimately drove hi