This is the scene laid out in Chess Story, Philipp Stölzl’s 2021 film adaptation of Austrian Jewish writer Stefan Zweig’s last novella. Before the night is over, Bartok is arrested and imprisoned in the luxurious Hotel Metropole, which was confiscated by the Nazis and turned into the largest Gestapo headquarters outside of Berlin. Hours later, the Austrian prime minister resigns, and the Nazis march into Vienna unopposed as part of the Anschluss, the 1938 Nazi annexation of Austria. When a friend pulls him aside to warn him of the advancing Nazis, the alternately charming and obnoxious Bartok dismisses him with a joke and returns to the dance floor. Josef Bartok during a stately ball at the Vienna Opera House in March 1938. Keywords: Stefan Zweig, Chess, World War II, Nazi Germany, Jews, National Socialism, Dr.“AS LONG AS Vienna keeps dancing, the world can’t end,” quips Dr. Which salvation is true? This article argues that the psychology of the author and the protagonist with their methods for salvation in light of Freudian unconscious mind theory that illuminates their feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories that outside of their conscious awareness. While Stefan Zweig chooses to commit suicide for his salvation, Dr.B fights against Hitlerite with the help of a defence mechanism. Although their living standards are similar, their method of salvation is different from each other. Also, there is a character named Dr.B is almost under the same condition as the writer because both of them fight against dictatorship for humanity. Chess is one of his novels written as a revolt for Nazi Germany and it mirrors the psychology of the society after World War II by using some symbols. For transferring these situations to new generations, he writes his novel Chess when he is in exile (1938-1941). For that reason, he decides to escape from National Socialism by migrating to London, Portuguese, New York City, Argentine, Salzburg, and Brazil.
As being a Jew and living in the war period, Stefan Zweig witnesses all traumatic conditions because of Nazi Germany.
Stefan Zweig's Chess (1941) represents the society in World War II, Nazi Germany and the hard lives of Jews by the perspective of a Jew.
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