Austrian campaign aims to save writer Stefan Zweig’s Salzburg villa after Porsche tunnel row

According to The Guardian, Austrian cultural figures have launched a campaign to preserve Villa Europa in Salzburg, the former home of writer Stefan Zweig. The seventeenth-century property's owner, automotive magnate Wolfgang Porsche, unexpectedly put it on the market following a row over his plans to build a private tunnel for his car collection. Zweig, whose novels inspired Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, left Austria in nineteen thirty-four when the fascist regime took power, forced to sell the villa at a loss.

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