USC - Max Kade Institute - Archive

                                          

USC’s Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies is a research institute with its own library and archive. It was founded in 1984 by its present director, Dr. Cornelius Schnauber, and with the support of the Max Kade Foundation, Inc., New York.

The Institute’s main focus is supporting research on German and Austrian film émigrés and exiles, authors, musicians and politicians during the Nazi Period; as well as major seminars, workshops, lectures and performances by leading contemporary authors, artists and politicians from the German-speaking countries and the US.

The Institute also works in cooperation with other institutions in Los Angeles and Europe, including the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, Villa Aurora, the German-American Cultural Society, the LA Opera, the International Forum for Culture and Economics in Germany, Pro Helvetia in Switzerland and the Cultural Department of the Foreign Office in Austria.

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